Canuc Resources (TSX-V:CDA) has launched a ‘major’ airborne gravity survey at its flagship East Sudbury Project (ESP) in Ontario, Canada, to identify deeper exploration targets across the property.
The program, being conducted by Bell Geospace, comprises gravity gradiometer, magnetic, and LiDAR (light detection and ranging) surveys across the 200km² property.
Covering close to 2,000 line kilometres, the survey is expected to provide one of the most detailed subsurface datasets compiled for ESP, according to Canuc.
Bell’s Full Tensor Gradiometer (FTG) and magnetic data will be used to map deeper geological structures and identify potential large-scale drill targets across the project area.
The ESP property encompasses several areas of gold and copper mineralisation that Canuc interprets to be associated with iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) systems. It is host to several historic gold mines and surrounded by claims and mining operations owned by major mining companies, including Glencore (LSE:GLEN) and Vale (NYSE:VALE).
Canuc is currently exploring for potential IOCG mineralisation near the former Scadding mine and along the McLaren Lake Fault Zone.
“Despite a history of high-grade gold and copper mining dating back as far as 1904, and despite nearly 45,000m of historical drilling around old gold and copper mine workings, effectively no drilling or exploration has been undertaken beyond 150m of depth,” CEO Christopher Berlet says.
“These new gravity and seismic exploration tools, combined with enhanced AI-driven analysis will allow us — for the first time — to look beyond the near-surface expressions of these historic gold and copper mine workings,” he adds.
The FTG survey builds on a seismic program completed last month by OptiSeis Solutions and Natural Resources Canada along the McLaren Lake Fault.
Canuc says the latest work is designed to improve its understanding of the McLaren Lake Fault and three subparallel faults already identified on the property, while helping to identify previously unmapped subsurface structures.
The company plans to integrate the results with historical regional geological data, locations of past-producing gold and copper mines and occurrences, and the recently completed seismic survey.
The combined dataset will then be used for AI-driven analysis to further refine exploration targets across ESP.
Canuc Resources is a junior resource company developing its wholly owned East Sudbury Project, which spans 20,078 hectares and is centred about 20km northeast of the Sudbury mining camp.
Write to Jackson Chen at Mining.com.au
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