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September 11, 2014 --- Vol. 08, No. 37September 2014

British Columbia

SILVER – Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Sept. 10 reported the start of a drill program of up to 8,000 meters at the Dolly Varden property in northwestern British Columbia. The 20-hole exploration program is designed to test numerous defined drill-ready epithermal and Eskay-Creek style targets, as well as expand known silver mineralization on the Torbrit-Red Point corridor, where last year’s drill program intercepted a 17.1m interval grading 509 grams per metric ton silver. The three exploration zones being targeted are: Torbrit-Red Point, an Eskay-Creek style target; Musketeer, which has numerous silver-rich epithermal vein-type showings with strong potassic radiometric signatures; and Wolf-Surprise, where silver-enriched volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization was identified by drilling in 2011. The first drill hole has been located to test for mineralization underneath Red Point. Ongoing prospecting, geologic mapping, and geochemical soil sampling is continuing to infill and expand the favorable trends identified with the recently completed first phase field program. Results from this follow-up work are expected to provide additional drill targets that will be added to the later part of the drill program.

COPPER/GOLD – Copper Fox Metals Inc. Sept. 10 provided updates on the Schaft Creek joint venture with Teck Resources Ltd. and the results of the Quantec Titan-24 DCIP survey on the Eaglehead copper project competed by Carmax Mining Corp. Northern Fox Copper Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Copper Fox, owns 42.09 percent of the shares of Carmax. At Schaft Creek, the 2014 mapping outcrop and core re-logging program to collect information for pit slope stability as part of the ongoing optimization work was completed at the end of August. Copper Fox holds a 25 percent interest in a joint venture with Teck on the Schaft Creek copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in northwestern British Columbia. In 2013, a feasibility study describing a 130,000-metric-ton-per-day open pit mine for Schaft Creek was completed. Schaft Creek has proven and probable reserve of 940.8 million metric tons grading 0.27 percent (5.6 billion pounds) copper, 0.19 grams per metric ton (5.8 million ounces) gold, 0,018 percent 363.5 million pounds) molybdenum and 1.72 g/t (51.7 million ounces) silver. At the Eaglehead copper project, a Quantec Titan 24 geophysical survey outlined a large chargeability anomaly consisting of two distinct chargeability signatures over a 5,600-meter-long horizontal distance. The first signature ranges from 500 to 1,000 meters wide, is open at depth below the 550-meter level and is surrounded by a broad chargeability signature covering 4,500 meters and four of the six zones of mineralization identified on the property to date. Copper Fox said the copper mineralization reported at the Eaglehead project in the historical and current drill holes in the Pass, Camp, Bornite and East zones of mineralization, either on or in proximity to the geophysical survey lines, shows a good correlation to the chargeability signature. The second signature at Eaglehead covers 1,100 meters vertical distance, is approximately 1,000 meters wide and is open at depth. This signature has not been drill tested and is open to the southeast towards the Far East zone. “Now that the summer field program at Schaft Creek has been completed, the results can be incorporated into the 2014 optimization work currently underway on the Schaft Creek Joint Venture,” explains Copper Fox President Elmer Stewart. “The geophysical work on the Eaglehead copper project has outlined a large, strong positive chargeability anomaly that exhibits an excellent correlation with the historical and current assay results over a 4.5-kilometer-long horizontal distance.”

COPPER/GOLD – Kiska Metals Corp. Sept. 8 said it has entered into a binding letter agreement with Chlormet Technologies Inc. that provides Kiska with the exclusive right to enter an option to earn a 100 percent interest in the Chuchi gold-copper property in British Columbia. The agreement grants Kiska the exclusive right to provide Chlormet with notice at any time within the next 120 days that it wishes to enter into an option agreement. To exercise the option, Kiska will be required to deliver the following payments in Kiska shares (or equivalent cash value at Kiska’s election): 200,000 shares on signing the option agreement; 200,000 shares on the first anniversary of the agreement; 250,000 shares on the fourth anniversary of the agreement; and 350,000 shares on the seventy anniversary of the agreement. Kiska will have the right to accelerate the delivery of the foregoing payments and acquire a 100 percent interest in the Chuchi project at any time, provided that any early delivery payments by Kiska must be comprised solely of Kiska share “Kiska is very pleased to seize this opportunity that provides the company with the option to acquire a 100 percent interest in a highly prospective copper-gold porphyry project in British Columbia. We believe that the project has attributes that will attract a partnership with a major mining company, and Kiska will begin assessing this in the near future. The opportunity was identified via one of the company’s strategic alliances, and further strengthens Kiska's emergence as a leading prospect generator company,” said Kiska President Grant Ewing.

SILVER/GOLD – Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Sept. 5 reported the completion of the preliminary surface phase of its 2014 summer field program and has dispatched drill crews to prepare for the 2014 drill program on the Dolly Varden silver property in northwestern British Columbia. The company said this work further refined the location and orientation of several drill-ready Eskay-Creek style and epithermal targets; generated a number of additional specific drill targets on known mineralized horizons; and identified several new zones with mineral potential on other areas of the property. Additionally, geologic and structural mapping has confirmed the layout of the initial drill holes planned for 2014. The field program involved a geochemical survey where 970 soils, 28 silts, and six heavy mineral samples were collected over selected areas on the property. Highlights of the results from this geochemical work include: soil surveys indicate the surface trace of the DVT Horizon, which hosts the high-grade silver mineralization at the Torbrit and Dolly Varden mines, providing confidence the technique can be used to search for extensions of the horizon; numerous promising multi-element anomalous trends were located along the prospective sediment-volcanic contact of the Salmon River Formation in areas with no previously known showings; a strong geochemical response within the airborne radiometric anomaly that has been outlined on the east side of the Kitsault River is outlining some possibly significant trends that could be related to structurally controlled epithermal mineralization; and anomalous gold-silver results from silt samples taken north of the gridded area underlain by Salmon River Formation points to additional potential on the northern portion of the property. Dolly Varden said this first phase of the geochemical sampling will now be followed up by sampling along step out grid lines on all open anomalous areas; and detailed infill sampling, prospecting and geologic mapping. Dolly Varden President George Heard said, “Our multi-disciplinary approach integrating geochemical and geophysical data, through our highly regarded technical advisory committee, is providing the necessary interpretation to refine the targeting and identify new zones for our 2014 drill program.” Drill crews are working on the site, with an announcement describing the 2014 drilling program to be released shortly.


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