The geology of Nova Pacific Metals’ “LARA Property” is a continuation of the Mount Sicker mine immediately to the east.  It also holds similarities to the Buttle Lake mining district where some 31 million tons of polymetallic massive sulphide ore was mined.  The property lies within a broad anticline structure in Paleozoic volcanic and sedimentary formations, with two mineralized zones called the Coronation zone & the Coronation Extension zone, together referred to as the Coronation Trend.  The rocks have been strongly deformed, with an early event producing strong schistosity and cleavage. The property is underlain by the Sicker Group volcanics within the Cowichan uplift.  The Lara property itself is underlain by the McLaughlin Ridge FM which has been thrust over the younger Cameron River Fm and the Nanaimo Sedimentary Fm along the major Fault called the “Fulford fault”. The McLaughlin Ridge Fm has been locally intruded by gabbro and diorite sills.  On the property the Sicker Group and Karmutsen intrusive units are unconformably overlain by the clastic sediments of the late cretaceous Nanaimo Fm.  The McLaughlin Ridge Fm, the host of the VMS deposits consist of northerly dipping, west-northwest striking rhyolitic to andesitic rocks.