C3 Metals Inc. (TSXV: CCCM) has kicked off a 5,000 metre drilling programme at the 100% owned Bellas Gate copper-gold porphyry project in Jamaica.
Drilling is designed to test multiple porphyry copper targets identified within the regionally significant Crawl River Fault zone. Drilling will also target epithermal gold prospects on the property.
Twelve porphyry systems and multiple epithermal occurrences have been identified in the project area to date.
Program Highlights
- The Epidote Ridge prospect area is located within the Bellas Gate SEPL and specifically within Porphyry Alley, a cluster of porphyries along the Crawl River Fault Zone.
- Epidote Ridge is the first drill target, an interpreted preserved porphyry centre linked to porphyry copper-gold prospects known as Connors, Geo Hill and Camel Hill
- Strong copper-gold mineralisation intersected at Connors, Geo Hill and Camel prospects is interpreted to converge beneath Epidote Ridge
- Shallow historic drilling at Connors and Camel Hill intersected good copper and gold grades.
Connors results:
- 114.0m @ 0.69% Cu, 0.52 g/t Au in CON-14-004 (from 28.0m) [1]
- 84.0m @ 1.00% Cu, 0.77 g/t Au in CON-14-005 (from 14.0m) 1
Camel Hill results:
- 137.2m @ 0.56% Cu, 0.25g/t Au in CAM92-01 (from surface) 1
- 85.0m @ 0.52% Cu, 0.25g/t Au in CAM92-05 (from 3.40m) 1
- Post Eidote Ridge drilling, the rig will test other high potential porphyry prospects, including Coffee, Lucky Valley, Geo Hill and White Rock Ridge, followed by epithermal copper-gold-silver targets at Charing Cross and Stamford Hill
“We are excited to commence drilling on a number of untested copper-gold porphyry systems and historic mine workings with impressive copper mineralisation but limited multi-discipline exploration,” President and CEO, Kevin Tomlinson, said.
“This initial programme will test multiple high potential prospects starting at Epidote Ridge, one of our most compelling targets.
“On completion of the first hole, the drill rig will move to test additional porphyry and epithermal targets along Porphyry Alley and the parallel spatially associated Epithermal Copper-Gold Corridor.”
Details of the Drilling Programme
Over the past year, the Company compiled all historical exploration data on its Jamaican Exclusive Prospecting Licenses (SEPLs) and refined the geological and mineralisation models for Bellas Gate.
The review identified significant porphyry copper-gold potential beneath Epidote Ridge, where down dip extensions of the Connors and Camel porphyry copper-gold deposits are interpreted to converge.
Epidote Ridge is characterized by intense epidote alteration over a nine square kilometre area and is associated with highly anomalous copper in soil geochemistry and coincident magnetic and IP chargeability features at depth.
The geochemical and geophysical signatures at Geo Hill, Camel Hill and Connors are similar to Epidote Ridge, making it the most compelling and highest priority porphyry drill target in Bellas Gate.
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