Trilogy Metals and GSC join forces at Muskox North

Vancouver — Trilogy Metals (TRG-V) has enlisted the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) to help interpret geophysical data from the Muskox North property in Nunavut.

Later this summer, the company plans to drill a deep hole to test for nickel, copper, platinum and palladium mineralization.

Dr. Mike Thomas, a senior research scientist with GSC, will work with Trilogy to interpret and model ground-based gravity and magnetic data from previous surveys. Trilogy hopes its collaboration with GSC will help it to learn more about the geophysical aspects of the property, in particular the footwall geometry in the vicinity of the drill target.

Trilogy has planned a two-phase drill program. Initially, a deep diamond-drill hole will be collared on the southernmost of two distinct ovoid-shaped gravity anomalies at the southwestern end of the property. The anomalies are thought to represent funnel-like intrusive centres or magma chambers, which are proximal to an exposed portion of the layered complex that contains sulphide-rich mineralization and associated anomalous PGM values.

One vertical drill hole will attempt to drill though the entire intrusion from the roof zone to the keel at the base of the sequence. Two types of deposits will be targeted with this hole: stratigraphic targets such as chromitite reefs and peridotite layers below the reefs; and deeper magmatic sulphide accumulations containing nickel copper and PGMs.

Based on geological and geophysical data, Trilogy estimates that the depth of the upper chromitite reef (or reefs) will be 350-400 metres. The potential magmatic sulphide body is believed to be situated at a target depth of 1,650-2,000 metres. Second-stage drill locations and depths will be contingent on the first-stage results.

The 15,321-ha Muskox North property is located 75 km south of Kugluktuk (formerly Coppermine), a small town on the Arctic ocean. The exploration license lies just off the northern end of the exposed part of the Muskox ultramafic-mafic layered intrusive complex.

PGM Holdings, a private syndicate, has granted Trilogy an option to earn up to a 70% interest in the property. To exercise the option, Trilogy must pay the owners $300,000, issue 5,554,093 shares in stages over three years and spend $5 million.