Jean Marie - Flagship

The Jean Marie property is a copper-gold-silver-molybdenum porphyry prospect located 50 km south of Serengeti Resources Kwanika Copper-Gold deposit and 50 km west of Centerra Gold's Mt. Milligan Copper-Gold Mine in central BC. The property covers 12,610 hectares and has multiple mineralized zones which are open for expansion with drilling.

Historical work conducted on the Jean Marie Project includes over 10,000 metres of drilling and dozens of ground-based geophysical and geochemical surveys, with the majority of exploration being completed by Cominco Ltd. between 1970 and 1974. Historical exploration activities were focused on drilling in three copper porphyry zones: the A, B and C Zones (see below). Each of the three mineralized zones straddle the Jean Marie fault, a significant controlling structure that has been mapped for over 12 km on the Project (see below).

During 2020, a total of 15 RC drill holes totaling 1,692 metres were completed at the A Zone. This drilling tested various magnetic signatures along a corridor where the dominant northwest-trending magnetic fabric is disrupted by an east-west trending zone of magnetic variability and disruption. In addition, an airborne magnetic survey and rock sampling programs were completed at Jean Marie, where PEMC was successful in confirming the potential for gold-enriched copper mineralization. Highlights of the rock sample assays included 8.79 g/t gold, 86.6 g/t silver and 1.74% copper at the newly identified Leap Target Area.

The 2021 exploration program at Jean Marie is underway.

PEMC has significantly increased its land position at Jean Marie by staking an additional 5,253 hectares, representing an increase of approximately 71%. This additional ground covers prospective buried intrusions, contacts and structures that were identified in the regional magnetic survey data and from analysis of existing historical data. Field crews were mobilized to the property in June to recover historical drill core that was on the property. Over 300 boxes of historical drill core was recovered from the property. Drill core from diamond drill programs in 1997, 1995 and some from drilling in the early 1970's was transported to a facility where it is being cataloged and re-logged.

Mapping of the surficial geology is currently underway using historical survey data, in addition to modern topographical data and aerial imagery. The revised surface geology map will be used to reinterpret near-surface geochemical and geophysical data.

The next phase of exploration at Jean Marie will be expanding the current historical soil sampling coverage, completing detailed geologic mapping across the property, and airborne geophysical surveys.

Wide spaced soil sampling will be focused on areas where there has been no coverage. These will include zones that lie along strike with known copper and gold mineralization. Tighter spaced soil sampling will be focused on the mineralized drilling areas and will augment the historical soil sampling with modern multielement data.

An airborne magnetic survey has been commissioned to cover the entirety of the property. In addition to magnetic data, radiometric and VLF data will also be collected concurrently. The survey will be flown at 100 metre line spacing.

The 2020 reverse circulation (“RC”) drill program at Jean Marie consisted of 15 holes totaling 1,691 metres and focused on the northern-most “A Zone”, where historical drilling in the 1970s encountered copper mineralization; historical holes were only assayed for copper and molybdenum. The 2020 RC drill program was successful in identifying a broad zone of elevated copper and intriguing silver mineralization and has provided the Company with multi-element geochemical data that has been incorporated into the growing property database. In combination with the airborne magnetic survey that was completed in October of 2020, the data is being used to develop additional targets for diamond drilling during the 2021 exploration season. At this time, the trend and true width of mineralization unknown.

Highlights from 2020 Reverse Circulation Drilling:

• Copper mineralization was encountered in 13 of 15 holes with 8 holes averaging greater than 1000 ppm copper over the entire length of hole.
• A broad, tabular zone of elevated Cu values (>0.2% Cu) was delineated over an area of approximately 400 x 500m; this zone remains open to the NE and SW and suggests the presence of a larger mineralizing system.
• Elevated levels of copper, silver and molybdenum were encountered in drilling with drill hole JMR014 averaging 3.37% Cu and 11.4 g/t Ag over 3.05m and drill hole JMR008 averaging 1.4 g/t silver over the length of the hole; a strong correlation exists between Cu-dominant (Au-poor) mineralization and Ag grades.
• Drill results demonstrate kilometer-scale base and precious metal mineralization over a large, under-explored property with untested diamond-drill targets.

Exploration activities during 2020 confirmed the presence of a 5 km long porphyry footprint at Jean Marie in addition to the identification of new areas of copper, gold and silver mineralization at the Leap prospect and to the south of the C Zone. At the Leap prospect, located 800 metres to the south of the B Zone, rock sampling returned 8.79 g/t gold, 86.7 g/t silver and 1.74% copper (Sample No. 13708, see PEMC News Release dated September 28, 2020). Approximately 400 metres south of the C Zone, additional gold mineralization was encountered when continuous chip sampling of a hand trench (Trench 1) yielded 4.0 g/t gold over 8 metres with the entire 20-metre length of the trench averaging 1.7 g/t gold. A second hand trench (Trench 2) was sampled approximately 250 east of Trench 1 where continuous chip sampling yielded 4 metres grading 1.37% copper, 0.08 g/t gold and 67.4 g/t silver. Follow up work is planned at these new areas during 2021 to assess the significance of the mineralization in the areas. At this time, the trend and true width of mineralization at both hand trenches is unknown.

Summary of Analytical Results from 2020 RC Drill Program

RC Drill Hole Collar Locations

Prior to the commencement of the 2020 RC drill program, prospecting, review of historical drill core and rock sampling were conducted across the property. A total of 38 rock samples were collected, with a focus on expanding the footprint of known mineralization and demonstrating the potential for gold-enriched copper mineralization across the property. A summary of all rock samples collected at Jean Maire during the 2020 exploration season is presented in below.

A high-resolution airborne magnetic survey was conducted by Peter E. Walcott & Associates Ltd. covering the majority of the property, including the known areas of drill defined copper mineralization at the A, B and C Zones. The survey was flown along 100 metre spaced lines and 1,000 metre spaced tie lines. The survey expanded upon the existing historical ground magnetic survey completed in 1973 and provides a much greater level of detail at the known areas of copper mineralization. The survey also highlighted additional target areas in the southern portion of the property where historical soil geochemical sampling identified copper-molybdenum in-soil anomalies.

All of the geophysical and geochemical data collected during 2020 will be incorporated into the existing dataset and will be used to develop targets for follow-up field programs and drill testing in 2021. PEMC has now met its first-year expenditure commitments and have a property wide exploration permit through 2021.

Rock samples collected from the A Zone (Applecot showing) returned up to 0.442 g/t gold with 1.3% copper and 15 g/t silver. At the newly identified Leap Target area, 800 metres to the south of the B Zone, rock sampling returned up to 8.79 g/t gold, 86.7 g/t silver and 1.74% copper. Approximately 400 metres south of the C Zone, additional gold mineralization was encountered when continuous chip sampling of a hand trench (Trench 1) yielded 4.0 g/t gold over 8 metres with the entire 20-metre length of the trench averaging 1.7 g/t gold. A second hand trench (Trench 2) was sampled approximately 250 east of Trench 1 where continuous chip sampling yielded 4 metres grading 1.37% copper, 0.08 g/t gold and 67.4 g/t silver. At this time, the trend and true width of mineralization at both hand trenches is unknown.

The Jean Marie property is characterized by a northwest trending magnetic signature that traverses the property from south-east to north-west. Results from the airborne magnetic survey highlight several areas where this dominant northwest trending magnetic signature is interrupted by east-west and north-east striking zones of magnetic disruption.

At the A Zone, where 2020 RC drilling was focused, the airborne magnetic survey shows an east-west zone of magnetic disruption that is interpreted to represent a structural discontinuity, favourable to host porphyry intrusions. In the southern portion of the property, a more heterogeneous magnetic signature is observed. Rock sampling in this area by PEMC during 2020 returned up to 0.218% copper and 176 ppm molybdenum.

Table 1. Continuous chip sampling results from hand trench south of C zone (start of trench at 377,703 E / 6,106,027 N, end of trench at 377,721 E / 6,106,031 N, UTM NAD 83 zone 10).

Historically, the A and C zones did not see systematic analyses for gold. Entire hole composites from 1974 percussion holes were assayed for gold with a high detection limit and, as such, gold was not detected. The recent collected rock samples show that there is, in fact, a significant precious metal component associated with copper mineralization, at least in part, at the A and C zones.

Table 2. Rock sampling results from A and C zones (UTM NAD 83 zone 10).

Table 3. Summary of all rock sampling results during 2020.

The A and C Zones have seen limited historical drilling, with the deepest drilling in both zones being 92 vertical metres. Mineralization in these zones exists as chalcopyrite dominated by pyrite, with rare covellite and bornite. In select surface samples at both the A and C zones, anomalous gold has been seen to be associated with chalcopyrite mineralization and monzonite dikes, though the historical drill core was not systematically assayed for gold. Historical exploration encountered angular float on the southwest margin of the A zone assaying up to 4.43% copper and 0.95 g/t gold.

The B Zone has seen more extensive drilling, with the deepest historical drilling being a 277 m vertical drill hole, J97-11. A high-grade interval in this hole occurs between 181 and 208 metres, where a hydrothermal breccia containing angular clasts of porphyritic material with bornite and chalcopyrite graded 1.2% copper over 27 metres. The presence of this breccia provides direct evidence of a mineralized porphyry system at depth beneath the B-zone.

The C Zone is characterized as a broad area of low-grade copper-molybdenum mineralization, with the easternmost hole in the zone grading 0.17% copper over the entire 85.3 metre length of bedrock drilled. However, the presence of a large, strong copper-in-soil anomaly measuring 2,500 x 600 metres, immediately north and east of the C zone, with soil samples assaying up to 0.66% copper suggests more appreciable copper mineralization may exist at depth. The presence of widespread, locally intense clay alteration further suggests there may be potential for higher copper grades at depth.

RC chip samples and rock grab samples were collected and placed in polyethylene bags before being shipped to MS Analytical (“MSA”) in Langley, BC. Internal laboratory standards are checked upon analysis as a means of quality assurance. Samples were analyzed using MSA’s IMS-130 multi-element analytical package, whereby 0.5 g aliquots are subjected to an aqua-regia digest and subsequently analyzed with ICP-AES/MS. Sample were also assayed using MSA’s FAS-111 fire assay gold package, whereby a 30 g fusion is ultimately finished with AAS. Certified reference standards and blanks were inserted as a part of the QA/QC program.