Orcana, Denn’or planning to drill Val d’Or claims

One of the properties included in a proposed 50/50 joint venture deal is Denn’or’s East Sullivan property which produced 16 million tons of copper-zinc-silver-gold ore during the 1950s and ’60s.

Mined to a depth of 3,900 ft, the East Sullivan adjoins Orcana’s Farquharson property which is also part of the joint venture plan.

According to Orcana President Ray Mongeau, East Sullivan is predicated on a 400×1,500-ft base metal stringer zone containing 150 million tons of stringer material down to a depth of 3,900 ft.

“This mineralized zone, which strikes eastward near surface, swings abruptly to the northeast along a syenite intrusive at depth,” he said. A prime target for Orcana and Denn’or will be the down plunge extension of the known massive copper-zinc sulphide zones which have yet to be tested below the 1,200-ft level.

Mongeau says the stringer zone has an average width of 250 ft and a length of 1,600 ft on the 3,900 ft level where drilling has encountered a number of intercepts including 1.47% copper over 8 ft, 1.69% copper across 22 ft, 85 ft of grade 0.86% copper, 96 ft of grade 0.53% copper and 17 ft of grade 0.70% zinc.

Another prime exploration target is expected to be a new 400-ft wide chalcopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite stringer zone which occurs about 1,500 ft north of the main East Sullivan ore horizon.

“This zone is similar to the East Sullivan zone in that it is located primarily within a tuff and along pyroclastic-tuff contacts,” said Mongeau.

Known as the Bounty zone, it has yet to be tested along strike and at depth.

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