Blizzard Project

Blizzard Uranium Deposit

Boss Power is focused on development stage uranium properties with a well defined resource. Boss Power can add value to these properties by applying expertise in mining, mineral processing, environmental permitting and project finance.

The Blizzard deposit is a well-known historically reported uranium resource and the subject of a NI 43-101 compliant Technical Report dated November 15, 2006 as revised on February 23, 2007 and May 30, 2007, by Dr. Peter A. Christopher, P.Eng. The Blizzard deposit was the subject of a detailed engineering evaluation by Kilborn Engineering in the late 1970's, based on a total of 21,184 metres of drilling in 478 reverse circulation and diamond drill holes.

Project Location


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The Blizzard Project, consisting of Blizzard 1 claim covering 334.837 hectares, is situated in the Greenwood Mining Division of British Columbia, centered near coordinates 49°37'27"N latitude and 118°55'14"W longitude. The Blizzard deposit area is situated at the divide between the Kettle and West Kettle River drainages.

The Blizzard uranium deposit is located 49 air kilometers southeast of Kelowna, and 24 air kilometers northeast of Beaverdell, British Columbia. The area can be reached from Vancouver via the Trans-Canada Highway to Hope and then either Highway 5 to Kelowna or Highway 3 to Princeton, Osoyoos and Rock Creek.

Regional Map


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Project Geology

The Blizzard uranium deposit has been classified as a basal type deposit and as a channel conglomerate type. Basal type uranium deposits in the Okanagan Plateau occur in poorly consolidated fluvial or lacustrine carbonaceous sediments. Hosted sedimentary rocks are capped by an impermeable horizon, either Pliocene or Miocene plateau basalt (4.7 Ma (million years) and 5.0 Ma K/Ar ages) or by sediments of low permeability. Organic-rich sediments occupying paleostream channels or basins have maintained a reducing environment that caused deposition of secondary uranium minerals in areas of groundwater entrapment. The term 'basal type' uranium deposit is applied to these deposits because they often occur in a basal sequence of gravel and sands overlying a major unconformity and are below or at the base of a trapping impermeable layer. Unifying the genetic and physical characteristics also allow classification of the deposits as channel, stratabound, or groundwater type uranium deposits.


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Mineral Resource (pre NI 43-101 estimate)

The Blizzard Property was the subject of a 1979 feasibility study by Kilborn Engineering Ltd. on behalf of a joint venture comprised of Norcen Energy Resources, Lacana Mining Corporation, Campbell Chibougamou Mines, E & B Explorations and Ontario Hydro. A total of 21,184 metres of drilling in 478 reverse circulation and diamond drill holes were completed on the deposit in the 1970s. Kilborn hence calculated a mineable "reserve" of 2.2 million tonnes grading 0.214% U3O8 above a cut-off grade of 0.025% U3O8 containing 10.4 million pounds of U3O8. This historical estimate would not be considered as compliant under today's more stringent standards for reporting under Canadian National Instrument 43-101.

Project Timeline

The immediate focus of the Company is to update the 1979 Kilborn feasibility study to current mineral resource standards. This task will encompass additional resource definition and infill drilling, along with other engineering studies as needed, including a re-evaluation of current uranium processing methods.

The Company is in receipt of all the drill logs and assays from the 1979 Kilborn work, and this data has now been digitized. The digitized data will be used to build a block model of the resource, and to verify the mineral resources. The model will also be used to plan the drilling program for Summer 2008.

Coincident with the feasibility work, the Company will initiate environmental baseline studies. These studies will be ongoing, and will eventually lead into the formal environmental assessment work needed for the permitting of the project.

Basal Deposit


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Claim


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Cross-Section


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Haynes Hydraulic


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Drill Plan


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