Surge Copper Corp. (TSXV: SURG) has received positive assay results for seven holes from the company’s 100% owned Ootsa Property in British Columbia.
Included are results from three holes testing exploration targets and four holes from the eastern extension of the Seel Breccia Zone where the company identified potential to expand high-grade breccia-style mineralisation within an area of increasing glacial cover.
These are initial results from the first of a two-phase, $6.5 million programme which was designed to advance numerous early-stage regional exploration targets within the 50-km Berg-Huckleberry-Ootsa porphyry copper belt through surface reconnaissance exploration and target drill testing.
Highlights
- High-grade breccia-style mineralisation has been encountered in holes S22-315 and 316 located 400 metres east of the Seel Breccia Zone, referred to as the Seel Breccia East Zone
- Hole S22-315 intersected 64.6 metres grading 0.63% copper equivalent from 71.4 metres downhole depth, including 18.6 metres grading 1.84% copper equivalent and 8.6 metres grading 3.34% copper equivalent
- Hole S22-316 was from the same setup as S22-315 but at a steeper angle and intersected 40 metres grading 2.12% copper equivalent from 90 metres downhole depth, including 26 metres grading 3.06% copper equivalent
- Breccia mineralisation in holes S21-315 and S21-316 contain higher gold and zinc than breccia mineralisation at the Seel Breccia Zone, suggesting either metal zonation along strike or overlapping breccia events
- Hole S22-316 intersected a high Zn low Cu breccia which returned 18 metres from 182 metres depth to the end of the hole grading 1.13% Zn, 0.54 g/t Au, 20.1 g/t Ag and 0.06% Cu
- Holes S21-315, 316, and S18-214 define a high-grade Cu-Ag-Au-Zn breccia 50 metres wide by 100 metres deep that overlies a much larger zinc-rich breccia that is 100 to 150 metres wide and over 200 metres deep and open up and down dip
- 2022 programme totalled 15,300 metres of diamond drilling across 38 holes testing 9 distinct target areas, plus over 4,000 soil and 500 rock samples and 24 induced polarisation (IP) geophysical lines completed across multiple target areas
Assay results have also been received for exploration holes OxW22-05, OxW22-06, and H22-01, which tested geophysical targets west and south of the Ox deposit, and for holes S22-315 to 318 which tested the Seel Breccia Zone and its immediate eastward extension. .
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