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Fosheim Peninsula

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The Fosheim Property consists of 4-coal exploration licenses totaling 54,741 hectares and an additional 9-pending license located approximately 36-kilometers east of Eureka weather station, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Previous reconnaissance exploration by Petro-Canada, Gulf Canada, and Hunter Exploration has been conducted on the property.

The coal bearing, late Cretaceous to Tertiary Eureka Sound Group in the Fosheim Peninsula area consists of a non coal bearing basal member 30 meters thick and a coal bearing upper member that reaches a maximum of 3,200 meters thick based on a measured section near CSCC's Fosheim Peninsula licenses that included 100 coal seams, most of which, ranged from 0.5 to 1.5 meters thick. Near the base of the section, individual seams reached a maximum of 6 meters thick but zones containing 50% coal may reach thicknesses of up to 20 meters.*

Lithologies present in the upper member include claystone, siltstone, unconsolidated sandstone, and coal. Coal is the most indurated lithology in the area and often forms ridges, hilltops, and occasionally controls the drainage pattern of creeks. The structural setting was termed the Fosheim Synclinorium, which consists of broad, open, gentle synclines and anticlines, and normal faults. *

Petro-Canada defined the variation in rank within the Fosheim Peninsula area coals from lignite near the top of the Eureka Sound Group to high-volatile bituminous C near the base. They also noted that variation in rank, quality, and thickness was expected, given the more than 3,200 meter thickness of the Eureka Sound Gp.

*Panchy and Moorehouse, 1983

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