Drilling on the Chuchi Lake porphyry copper-gold property in north-central British Columbia has extended the mineralized strike length to at least 1,000 metres with a recent higher-grade gold intersection.
The property is a 50-50 joint venture between BP Resources Canada (TSE), the operator, and Digger Resources (VSE).
This year’s drilling program continued step-out holes on the northeast trending zone established by drilling in 1990.
Prior to receiving the results for hole 91-42, which include a 32.6-metre interval grading 3.38 grams gold per tonne (3.38% copper equivalent), BP had moved the drilling to another area of the property. In light of the relatively high gold values intersected in hole 91-42, the company plans further drilling for the area.
Hole 91-42 is believed to have intersected a major fault as evidenced by strong shearing throughout the drill hole. Further drilling will determine if the high-grade mineralization is limited to the fault zone.
Results from recent drilling as well as last year’s drilling: Hole Interval Width Copper Gold Copper Equiv.
(metres) (metres) % (g/tonne) %
91-42 91.4-146.0 54.6 0.09 2.03 2.12
188.0-256.0 68.0 0.13 0.37 0.50
91-40 50.0-204.0 154.0 0.22 0.20 0.42
90-37 54.3-262.1 207.8 0.22 0.12 0.34
90-33 40.0-304.0 264.0 0.20 0.12 0.32
90-27 23.0-226.0 194.0 0.21 0.21 0.42
(note: grades are uncut)
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