Bastion Minerals Ltd (ASX: BMO) has appointed Aurora Geoscience to prepare an exploration programme to follow up and gain a better understanding of a large mineralized quartz vein and the overall potential of the Mariner project.
Commenting on the review of the Mariner project, executive chairman, Mr. Ross Landles, said, “With the advanced ICE project located in the Yukon, which has a historical foreign non-JORC resource defined, being a strong focus for the company, I am thrilled with the increased potential of the Mariner project to host a high-grade copper deposit based on historical data.”
The recently acquired Mariner Copper project is a single 155km2 claim located near Great Bear Lake in the eastern Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada, where copper and uranium mineralization has previously been mined. The project is completely surrounded by White Cliff Minerals Ltd (ASX: WCN) Port Radium project, along the strike of NE trending faults.
With no additional exploration conducted on this quartz vein, according to government records, this is a priority follow up target to expand upon the historical high-grade drilling conducted by Mariner Mines Ltd, that intersected grades up to 18.4% Cu.
Drilling at Mariner intersected copper as chalcopyrite and bornite in quartz cemented breccia in a porphyritic unit, extending for over 500m and open to the east and west. In addition to the shallow high-grade mineralization encountered in zones A and B, a zinc, lead, and copper bearing zone was discovered in Zone C, open in all directions.
Mr. Landles continued, “We look forward to engaging with the First Nations and to Aurora defining a work plan for this heavily under explored property and note the results are not known to have been followed up since the original drilling, presenting an extremely exciting opportunity for Bastion.”
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