Surge Copper Corp. (TSXV: SURG) (OTCQX: SRGXF) has commenced drilling at the main Berg deposit area, located within the approximately 350 square kilometre Berg Property in central British Columbia.
Surge is earning into a 70% interest in the Berg Property from Centerra Gold Inc.
Following the successful rehabilitation of the access trail and ongoing progress on camp reconstruction, one drill rig has successfully been mobilised to site, and has begun drilling on a collar location in the southwestern quadrant of the deposit area.
As road and drill pad construction progresses, and dependent on weather conditions, the drill is expected to move to several locations in the north-eastern quadrant of the deposit area, before returning to the southern and western areas of the deposit in closer proximity to camp.
The 2021 drill programme at Berg is expected to comprise approximately 4,500m across up to 15 holes, with a budget of approximately C$1.3 million and will be continuously evaluated as operating and weather conditions evolve toward the end of the season.
The objectives of the programme include modernising the drill hole database including orientation survey and full-suite geochemical assay data, improving the understanding of the structural controls on mineralization and supergene enrichment, and improving drill hole density in the high-grade domains of the deposit.
High-grade potential within the deposit is illustrated for example by historical hole BRG11-219 which intersected 63 metres of 0.56% copper, 0.070% molybdenum, and 60.5 g/t silver, which included several narrow intervals of bonanza grade silver within a wider continuous zone averaging 5.6 g/t silver.
The historical drill hole database at Berg comprises a total of 53,754m over 215 holes.
Drilling in most areas of the deposit remains wide spaced and mineralization is open to depth and outward from the central Berg stock.
The deposit has been shown to have excellent vertical continuity with significant mineralization intersected greater than 550m below surface. A substantial portion of the historical drilling was not assayed for precious metals, namely silver, and in the current NI 43-101 resource those intervals have been assigned a silver grade of zero.
CEO, Leif Nilsson, said the deposit is notable among porphyry deposits located in British Columbia for having a well-developed supergene enrichment blanket superimposed on the hypogene mineralisation, which is itself characterized by several generations of veining.
“We are thrilled to have a drill turning at the Berg Project. Significant work has gone into preparing for this program, not least of which has been the efforts by the field crews to regain ground-based access to the deposit area,” Mr Nilsson said.
“Due to the shorter seasonal window at Berg, and the work required to reactivate the camp, this first year’s program will be smaller than what we may plan for 2022, but it will set us up extremely well to refine our planning during the seasonal break.
“We look forward to new drill data coming out of what is one of the most exciting porphyry copper exploration projects in BC.”
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