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Torch River Starts Drilling at Fort-Elden Property in British Columbia

Torch River Resources has formed a camp and is starting its program intended for up to 1,700 m of drilling and 7 holes at its 1,836.2 ha Fort-Elden property situated 100 km west of Fort St James, British Columbia.

The Fort-Elden property has gold-zinc-lead-molybdenum-silver-copper containing sulphide minerals such as covelite, galena, sphalerite, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. It also features related alteration minerals such as apatite, sphene, garnet, epidote, ankerite, jarosite, muscovite, chlorite, hematite, magnetite, silica, biotite, kaolinite, sericite and K-feldspar, and zircon and lucoxene in trace quantities.

Soil containing more than 1,000 ppm of copper is situated in an area of 350 x 70 m in the breccia zone’s center. Geochemical study of the soil located in the breccia zone demonstrates high quantities of gold and molybdenum.

The focus of Torch River Resources’ 1,700 m of diamond drilling is the breccia zone. The Fort-Elden property is categorized as epigenetic and porphyry types of mineral deposits characterized by breccia, vein and dispersed hydrothermal systems. The Elden breccia has plentiful of hydrothermal silica, secondary green biotite and secondary K-spar alteration.

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