Star Copper (CSE:STCU) CEO Darryl Jones says the company is building momentum, with a phase two drilling program planned for the Canadian fall season at the Star Project in British Columbia.
“Phase two is planned for fall 2025 and will pursue targeted stepouts and deeper tests at Star Main while adding exploratory holes at Star North and Copper Creek to expand the copper footprint and unlock new discovery potential across the property,” Jones says.
This news comes after Star Copper completed a phase one drilling program which was designed to test the grade and fault relationship to better target and understand the overall orientation and mineralisation of the Star Project.
Drilling confirmed and expanded the supergene footprint by 75m to the southwest and the overall results are anticipated to be instrumental in the company’s election to advance into a phase two program almost immediately.
The program comprised six holes for 2,200m and results are expected in due course.
Jones says the phase one program confirmed copper mineralisation in multiple intrusive phases, refined structural and alteration models, including potassic halos and supergene enrichment, and expanded the supergene mineralised footprint.
As previously reported, the zone extended from drillhole E to a 250m by 300m area down to a depth of 100m, with chalcopyrite mineralisation present in fine disseminations and in quartz-sulphide veinlets, often appearing with pyrite.
The Star Project is an advancing copper-gold system with potential for extension both laterally and at depth. The project sits within the Golden Triangle is a loosely defined region that hosts major gold, silver, and copper deposits in northwest British Columbia.
Star Copper is a mineral explorer focused on advancing Canadian mining projects.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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