At the Tepsa project in northern Finland,
Eight holes totalling 1,500 metres were drilled over a strike length of 1,200 metres and a width of 400 metres, resulting in anomalous assays of up to 0.09% copper and 0.28 gram gold per tonne over 2 metres.
Drilling tested a strong copper-gold geochemical anomaly coincident with a high gravity anomaly and a magnetic low. Earlier this year, basal till sampling confirmed the presence of a gossan over an area measuring 1 km long by up to 300 metres wide area.
Iron-rich sediments, mafic volcanics, banded iron formation, and iron-carbonate schist underlie the property. The rock locally displays silica brecciation and late-stage sulphide brecciation. The Geological Survey of Finland assayed 604 metres of core.
The 14-sq.-km property hosts other anomalies that still require work.
The company also owns the Keivitsa nickel/copper/platinum-group-element deposit, 142 km northeast of Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland in northern Finland.
A 2003 prefeasibility study by SRK Consulting suggests Keivitsa has an indicated resource of 150 million tonnes grading 0.18% nickel, 0.27% copper, 0.01% cobalt and 1.23% sulphur, plus 0.09 gram gold, 0.23 gram platinum and 0.15 gram palladium per tonne. In the inferred category are 315 million tonnes with similar grades. The estimates are based on a cutoff grade of 0.1% nickel-equivalent and a maximum depth of 500 metres.
There is also a probable reserve of 120 million tonnes grading 0.21% nickel, 0.3% copper, 0.01% cobalt, 1.4% sulphur, 0.11 gram gold, 0.25 gram platinum and 0.16 gram palladium. These estimates are based on a modeled pit with a 1-km diameter, overall slope angles of 50, and a depth of 450 metres.
A scoping study by the Geological Survey of Finland is trying to determine the economics of mining higher-grade pipes in the centre of the deposit as a stand-alone operation. Metallurgical tests are under way.
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