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Serving the Alberni Valley www.avtimes.net Friday, October 18, 2013 Archibald Thompson sentencing delayed one week Alberni Region, Page 3 15C 5C Sunny Alberni Region 3 Entertainment 5 Opinion 6 Sports 7 Scoreboard 9 British Columbia 10 What’s On 11 Nation & World 12 Comics 13 Classifieds 14 ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES VOLUME 64, NUMBER 201 $1.25 newsstand (GST incl.) Inside today DAVE DAVE KOSZEGI KOSZEGI Port Alberni’s Real Estate Expert 250.723.SOLD (7653) PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION 250.723.7889 thecatnapinn.ca The Catnap Inn The Catnap Inn deluxe cat boarding Where there’s always Nightcaps & Happy Hour Port Alberni’s deluxe cat accommodations! Call to make your reservation Going away? Going away? Leave your cat with us. Leave your cat with us. Going away? Going away? Leave your cat with us. Leave your cat with us. SCOTT McKENZIE ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES Jim Simpson has found a willing fund- ing partner to move forward on a mining project on the shoreline of the Alberni Inlet. Simpson, owner of Nahminto Resources, is teaming up with Equitas Resources Corporation president Jay Roberge. Equitas has committed $1.3 million over five years to option the property from Nahminto. Simpson hopes drilling can begin in spring 2014 at the Nahmint property, located on the western shoreline of the Inlet, 25 kilometres south of Port Alberni. It is approximately a 9,552-hectare piece of land consisting of 21 cell mineral claims and 15 underlying crown granted claims. Simpson said the first thing he did once arriving in Port Alberni was consult with the Tseshaht First Nation and said he felt like they can have a positive relationship. He also has said that could create approximately 15 jobs, with some of them being specialized. Something like that would benefit the local economy with people living, eating and shopping in the Alberni Valley on a five-year work permit. It has been previously mined in different locations, but mines were shut down due to the low prices of minerals. Simpson has been working on this project for more than eight years and is also work- ing on another project near Macktush. The Macktush project is optioned to World Organics, which is still raising cap- ital to begin work. The Macktush property, about 15 minutes out of Port Alberni, was revealed to have gold in 1987 by Clive Ashworth Explorations. Because of the low price of gold, Ash- worth gave up the Macktush property in 1996, when there was up to five ounces of gold per tonne in bedrock on the property. “We’ll try to find the specific location where they found the strong gold value, and then follow up with the drilling pro- gram,” Simpson said. Simpson has already acquired five-year work permits for both the Macktush and Nahmint properties. He said the $1.3 mil- lion that Equitas is committing to the Nahminto project was the amount of money that he was asking for. “It’s really just to provide a minimum that we can commit to feel comfortable and easily accomplish that,” Roberge said, “but if the results of our work continue to surprise us and give us reason, the project can advance faster and it can advance bigger.” At the Nahmint property, skarn clusters (copper, iron, epidote and chlorite) have been identified at four locations – the Three Jays mine, the Monitor, the Happy John and Defiance area and the Black Prince area. See MINING, Page 4 RESOURCES SIOBHAN BURNS ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES Vancouver Island is considered high- risk when it comes to earthquakes, mak- ing yesterday’s Great British Columbia ShakeOut especially important in the Alberni Valley. Among the hundreds of participants were Alberni School District students and staff, city and regional district employees and members of the Port Alberni RCMP and fire departments. “We had almost double the participation than we’ve had in previous years,” said Laurie L’Heureux, occupational health and safety/emergency planning co-ordin- ator for the City of Port Alberni. “I think it’s really important. The more you do something, the better you get at it.” Eighth Avenue Elementary School prin- cipal Lisa Gunther agreed. Her school also participated in the event. “The more they practice, the better. I think it’s really important because the more prepared we are, they will know exactly what to do,” she said. L’Heureux said the Valley has partici- pated in ShakeOut B.C. since 2010. “When I was a kid, we did fire drills, but nobody ever thought about earthquakes,” L’Heureux said. “It leads to discussion about so much more.” Each year, A.W. Neill Middle School adds a tsunami component to their drill. After the shakeout, the students are evacuated from the school, then they head for higher ground. “They are very efficient at getting the students out of the school and up to the church on Compton,” L’Heureux said. More than 690,000 B.C. residents had par- ticipated in the event. [email protected] 250-730-0837 Possible spring start to Inlet mine Nahminto Resources teams up with Equitas Resources in $1.3-million Alberni Inlet project by Nahmint EARTHQUAKE ShakeOut helps Valley practise safety Oktoberfest kicks off tonight at Italian Hall with lots of festivities Joop Scheffers is one of the many volunteers behind the city’s annual Oktoberfest, which is hap- pening on Friday and Saturday at the Italian Hall. » Alberni Region, 4 Bulldogs fall to Cowichan, but preparing to take on Clippers The Bulldogs managed to outshoot Cowichan by a wide margin, but still suffered a 5-4 loss on Wednes- day. They play at home Friday and Sunday. » Sports, 8 » Use your smart- phone to jump to our Facebook page for updates on these stor- ies or the latest break- ing news. Eighth Avenue Elementary School Grade 3 student Skyler McGrath takes cover during The Great British Columbia ShakeOut on Thursday morning. [SIOBHAN BURNS, TIMES] From left, Harbour Discovery president Ian Grahame, local mining expert Herb McMaster, geologist Jacques Houle, and Nahminto Resources president Jim Simpson look at a table of rocks that are millions of years old from a property along the Alberni Inlet they expect to be mining in the spring. Going Away? Leave your dog with us! Our goal is to provide the safest, cleanest, most comfortable environment possible for your family pet DOGWOOD BOARDING KENNELS S 250-720-0344 7955 Wolfe Rd. “Providing a Personal Touch”
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Serving the Alberni Valley www.avtimes.net Friday, October 18, 2013
Archibald Thompson sentencing delayed one weekAlberni Region, Page 3
15C 5CSunny
Alberni Region 3 Entertainment 5
Opinion 6Sports 7
Scoreboard 9British Columbia 10
What’s On 11Nation & World 12
Comics 13Classifieds 14
ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES VOLUME 64, NUMBER 201 $1.25 newsstand (GST incl.)
Inside today
DAVEDAVE KOSZEGIKOSZEGIPort Alberni’s Real Estate
Expert250.723.SOLD
(7653)
PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION
250.723.7889thecatnapinn.ca
The Catnap InnThe Catnap Inn
deluxe cat boarding
Where there’s always Nightcaps & Happy Hour
Port Alberni’s deluxecat accommodations!
Call to make your reservation
Going away?Going away?
Leave your cat with us.Leave your cat with us.
Going away?Going away?
Leave your cat with us.Leave your cat with us.
SCOTT McKENZIE ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
Jim Simpson has found a willing fund-ing partner to move forward on a mining project on the shoreline of the Alberni Inlet.
Simpson, owner of Nahminto Resources, is teaming up with Equitas Resources Corporation president Jay Roberge.
Equitas has committed $1.3 million over five years to option the property from Nahminto.
Simpson hopes drilling can begin in spring 2014 at the Nahmint property, located on the western shoreline of the Inlet, 25 kilometres south of Port Alberni.
It is approximately a 9,552-hectare piece of land consisting of 21 cell mineral claims and 15 underlying crown granted claims.
Simpson said the first thing he did once arriving in Port Alberni was consult with the Tseshaht First Nation and said he felt like they can have a positive relationship.
He also has said that could create approximately 15 jobs, with some of them being specialized.
Something like that would benefit the local economy with people living, eating and shopping in the Alberni Valley on a five-year work permit.
It has been previously mined in different locations, but mines were shut down due to the low prices of minerals.
Simpson has been working on this project for more than eight years and is also work-
ing on another project near Macktush.The Macktush project is optioned to
World Organics, which is still raising cap-ital to begin work.
The Macktush property, about 15 minutes
out of Port Alberni, was revealed to have gold in 1987 by Clive Ashworth Explorations.
Because of the low price of gold, Ash-worth gave up the Macktush property in 1996, when there was up to five ounces of gold per tonne in bedrock on the property.
“We’ll try to find the specific location where they found the strong gold value, and then follow up with the drilling pro-gram,” Simpson said.
Simpson has already acquired five-year work permits for both the Macktush and Nahmint properties. He said the $1.3 mil-lion that Equitas is committing to the Nahminto project was the amount of money that he was asking for.
“It’s really just to provide a minimum that we can commit to feel comfortable and easily accomplish that,” Roberge said, “but if the results of our work continue to surprise us and give us reason, the project can advance faster and it can advance bigger.”
At the Nahmint property, skarn clusters (copper, iron, epidote and chlorite) have been identified at four locations – the Three Jays mine, the Monitor, the Happy John and Defiance area and the Black Prince area.
See MINING, Page 4
RESOURCES
SIOBHAN BURNS ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
Vancouver Island is considered high-risk when it comes to earthquakes, mak-ing yesterday’s Great British Columbia ShakeOut especially important in the Alberni Valley.
Among the hundreds of participants were Alberni School District students and staff, city and regional district employees and members of the Port Alberni RCMP and fire departments.
“We had almost double the participation than we’ve had in previous years,” said Laurie L’Heureux, occupational health and safety/emergency planning co-ordin-ator for the City of Port Alberni. “I think it’s really important. The more you do something, the better you get at it.”
Eighth Avenue Elementary School prin-cipal Lisa Gunther agreed. Her school also participated in the event.
“The more they practice, the better. I think it’s really important because the more prepared we are, they will know exactly what to do,” she said.
L’Heureux said the Valley has partici-pated in ShakeOut B.C. since 2010.
“When I was a kid, we did fire drills, but nobody ever thought about earthquakes,” L’Heureux said. “It leads to discussion about so much more.”
Each year, A.W. Neill Middle School adds a tsunami component to their drill. After the shakeout, the students are evacuated from the school, then they head for higher ground.
“They are very efficient at getting the students out of the school and up to the church on Compton,” L’Heureux said.
More than 690,000 B.C. residents had par-ticipated in the event.
Possible spring start to Inlet mineNahminto Resources teams up with Equitas Resources in $1.3-million Alberni Inlet project by Nahmint
EARTHQUAKE
ShakeOut helps Valley practise safety
Oktoberfest kicks off tonight at Italian Hall with lots of festivitiesJoop Scheffers is one of the many volunteers behind the city’s annual Oktoberfest, which is hap-pening on Friday and Saturday at the Italian Hall. » Alberni Region, 4
Bulldogs fall to Cowichan, but preparing to take on ClippersThe Bulldogs managed to outshoot Cowichan by a wide margin, but still suffered a 5-4 loss on Wednes-day. They play at home Friday and Sunday. » Sports, 8
» Use your smart-phone to jump to our Facebook page for updates on these stor-ies or the latest break-ing news. Eighth Avenue Elementary School Grade 3 student Skyler McGrath takes cover during The Great
British Columbia ShakeOut on Thursday morning. [SIOBHAN BURNS, TIMES]
From left, Harbour Discovery president Ian Grahame, local mining expert Herb McMaster, geologist Jacques Houle, and Nahminto Resources president Jim Simpson look at a table of rocks that are millions of years old from a property along the Alberni Inlet they expect to be mining in the spring.
Going Away? Leave your dog with us!
Our goal is to provide the safest, cleanest, most comfortable environment possible for your family pet
DOGWOODBOARDING KENNELSS
250-720-0344 7955 Wolfe Rd.“Providing a Personal Touch”
