Decade Resources Ltd (TSXV: DEC) has cored significant copper sulphide mineralization intercepts from the initial three diamond drill holes testing the recently discovered Nobody Knows No 2 zone.
The project is part of a large holding consisting of 48 contiguous minerals claims, which include Treasure Mountain, Nobody Knows, Dardanelle, and Treasure Mountain properties totaling 17.47Kha.
All mineral claims are wholly-owned by Decade Resources Ltd. The project stretches from 10km to 40km east of Terrace, BC, on the northern slopes of the Copper River valley.
Highlights of the programme included diamond drilling from one station that intersected thick intervals of copper sulphides in felsic volcanic rocks, 500m of drilling completed in three drill holes, and that the discovery drill holes show similarities to many of the world’s major sediment-hosted copper systems, with associations of silver.
There were also a total of 30m of visual sulphides intersected in drill hole NB23-03 comprising:
- 30m of coarse disseminated and stringer-type visual copper sulphide (dominantly bornite and minor chalcocite)
- 10m of visual disseminated copper sulphide (dominantly chalcopyrite) below the bornite/chalcocite mineralization
The Treasure Mountain – Nobody Knows properties have a great potential to host copper-silver deposits and/or copper-gold bearing stockworks.
At present, there are over 14 known copper bearing areas, and they feature numerous individual copper occurrences, of which only part have been examined in the 2022 exploration programme.
The main copper occurrences appear to be associated either with basalt, or its subvolcanic equivalent (diabase). Other copper occurrences are related to faults and fracture zones.
Almost all showings in this area have a similar mineralogy (mostly bornite and chalcocite) and geochemical signature (copper-silver), which suggest the same source of mineralization. All samples will be submitted to the ALS prep Labs in Terrace BC with analysis to be completed in Vancouver.
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