Initial prospecting in the Kikerk Lake area, about 550 km north of Yellowknife, N.W.T., has led Caledonia Mining (TSE) to the discovery of surface copper occurrences along a ridge 4 km long by 100 metres wide. The company reports grab samples with an average copper content of 0.93%.
The showing, which has been named “Skyona,” is a series of quartz veins and stockworks in brecciated dolomite and siltstone, with pyrite and chalcopyrite.
Copper concentrations in 58 grab samples range from 0.03% to 4.07% copper, and about a third of the samples have more than 1%.
Geochemical samples of glacial till from other areas on the property are reported to have “highly anomalous cobalt, nickel, copper, lead and zinc” concentrations.
The property is in the same area as the Woolgar copper project of Rhonda Mining (ASE) and Noranda (TSE). Caledonia plans further work for the 1996 field season.
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