Star Copper (CSE:STCU) has confirmed intrusive and porphyritic mineralisation at the Star North and Star East prospects in the ongoing drilling campaign at its wholly owned flagship Star Project in British Columbia.
A field crew is currently progressing these targets with prospecting, mapping, and sampling while drilling continues across the greater project.
The company compiled a total of 114 rock samples and 30 soil samples from Star North and 59 rock samples from Star East, with received data aligning with previous sampling anomalies and induced polarisation signatures.
Star Copper is currently awaiting the return of remaining assays from a preliminary x-ray fluorescence analysis.
CEO Darryl Jones says the company is impressed with the preliminary results of Star North and Star East.
“Intriguingly, a new target identified as Star West presents a large magnetic anomaly quite close to our field camp and given its relatively easy access has been prioritised for further study as part of the current campaign,” Jones says.
“So far, the scope and quality of the data continues to increase the probability of defining what we believe may be a large-scale copper-gold system.”
While drilling at S-052 is still underway, Star Copper has identified potassic alteration zones to a depth of 539m at drillole S-051, confirming copper oxide mineralisation extends beyond the supergene cap down dip and along strike.
Additionally, the company will conduct sampling of a mapped quartz monzodiorite diorite intrusive at Star West, which was first uncovered in a 2013 study.
The field crew will begin trenching, mapping, and rock sampling in the coming days after completing soil extensions to the northwest and southwest.
Star Copper is a copper explorer, focused on developing its flagship Star Project and the Indata Project in British Columbia, Canada.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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