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Pacific Bay's Mont-Laurier uranium property includes 98 claims representing a 57 square kilometer (22 square miles) over highly prospective ground in the emerging Mont-Laurier uranium exploration play in southern Quebec, Canada. PacBay claims are situated approximately 60 km northeast of the town of Mont-Laurier, on the east bank of Reivere du Lievre (Rabbit River), about 200 km northwest of Montreal. The claim area is easily accessible and comprises moderately hilly terrain with a few NE trending escarpments. Elevations range from 300 to 575 m above sea level.

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Uranium mineralization was first discovered in the Mont Laurier area in 1967 and major exploration was undertaken by Canadian Johns Manville Company Ltd. and several other companies during the mid to late 70's. The recent sharp increase in price of uranium prompted extensive claim staking in the area by Nova Uranium Corporation of Vancouver and Strateco Resources, Inc. of Montreal. Historic drilling and bulk sampling by Johns Manville outlined a significant uranium resource in the Renard Creek sector, approximately 4 km south of PacBay's claim block, where some significant high grade uranium oxide values in drill holes and trenches were reported. Other uranium occurrences in the area include the Hanson Lake, Tom Dick, Renard Creek (Nova), Adrian Pond and JRB-4 prospects. Recently, Nova Uranium confirmed significant surface uranium values ranging from greater than 9.43 pounds per ton U3O8 to 0.07 pound per ton U3O8 in a grab samples.

Geologically, uranium mineralization in the Mont-Laurier District is found within intensely deformed metamorphic rocks with both sedimentary and igneous origins belonging to the mid to late Proterozoic (1600 to 900 Ma) Grenville Sub-province of the Canadian Shield. Within PacBay's claim block, the dominant bedrock is a "paragneiss", which includes quartzite, feldspar-biotite gneiss and calc-silicate bearing gneiss and marble. These rocks are cross cut by "orthogneiss" representing former calc-alkaline granitic intrusives including reddish, porphyritic granites, pink and white pegmatites and migmatites. The white pegmatites and orthogneiss strata tend to host the better uranium mineralization, in the form of disseminated uraninite (uranium oxide).

PacBay geologists familiar with the area recommended claim staking based on the northeast trend of favourable pegmatite/orthogneiss stratigraphy which hosts the uranium showings discovered by Johns Manville and others approximately 5 kms to the south. The Company believes its Mont-Laurier property represents excellent uranium discovery potential within similar rock types. PacBay plans to initiate a field exploration program as early as possible in the spring of 2006.