Star Copper (CSE:STCU) is fully funded to undertake a 15,000m drilling program at the Star Project in northwestern British Columbia, aimed at delivering a maiden resource estimate.
The program will focus on first-pass and follow-up drilling across the Star Main target, as well as four key exploration target areas. These include Star North, Copper Creek, Star East, and Star West.
Crews are currently mobilising onsite to begin prepping the camp for the largest work program in the history of the project.
Star Copper notes that 3D induced polarisation (IP) and magnetotellurics (MT) surveys are being deployed to tighten geophysical modelling in preparation for testing all targets at depth.
An IP survey is a geophysical technique used to map subsurface materials by measuring chargeability, which is the ground’s ability to store an electrical charge. IP measures how voltage decays over time or phase shifts in frequency domain after the power is shut off.
Meanwhile, an MT survey is a passive, non-invasive electromagnetic geophysical technique that maps the earth’s subsurface conductivity to depths ranging from hundreds of metres to tens of kilometres.
Vectoring towards the core
CEO Darryl Jones says that with more than C$12 million ($12.26 million) in flow-through capital in place, the company is funded to execute its planned objectives.
“The planned 3D IP and MT surveys will enhance our understanding of the system at depth and significantly aid in vectoring towards the core of the porphyry system,” Jones says.
“We are excited to begin systematically drilling across this intriguing range of high-value prospects, offering strong potential to host Star Main-style mineralisation.”
Earlier this month, Star Copper closed a non-brokered private placement which raised C$2 million. Around 1.15 million flow-through units were issued at C$1.73 each, comprising one share and one purchase warrant.
The placement participants are entitled to purchase one flow-through share at C$1.75 each within a two-year period, for every purchase warrant held.
The Copper Creek target is a series of IP chargeability highs with elevated coincident copper and gold in-soil anomalies. A 2025 drilling program focused on confirming a historical mineralised zone first discovered in the 1970s.
Star East is considered an untested target 500m east of the Star Main target, with a 1,000m by 1,000m coincidental chargeability and soil anomaly. The anomaly appears analogous to Star Main.
Meanwhile, Star Copper believes Star North is another look alike to Star Main, which is located 1.5km to the northeast. Extensive soil and rock sampling, mapping, and geophysics provide the company’s exploration team a growing sense of opportunity, especially as slightly north is a new emerging target which demonstrates elevated copper in soils.
Star Copper is a Canadian mineral explorer focused on the discovery and advancement of copper-gold systems in British Columbia.
The Star Project sits within the Golden Triangle and hosts multiple high-priority targets, exhibiting geological characteristics consistent with porphyry copper deposits.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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