Viking Minerals has announced that the initial five assay results that returned up to 5.23% copper from the Dolly Varden claims in Nevada.
The company has sent five samples to the North Vancouver-based ALS Chemex lab in Canada. It has received all the samples from the primary hole, wherein three samples were obtained from the upper and lower zones of the distorted rusty pyrite and two samples from the apparently malachite tarnished zone.
Elements like arsenic, barium, bismuth, lead, molybdenum, zinc were connected with some samples and signify that the company has to still cut the major source over the 300 ft mineralization.
The company has logged the primary and secondary completely and has shipped further 110 samples to the ALS Chemex lab in Nevada.
This first ever completed drill hole at the claims has cut the geophysical anomaly widening from the property’s north part. More strong chargeabilities located to the southern part of this preliminary drill region, which will be examined during the current drilling campaign.
Elko County in Nevada holds 298 mines that are situated between Salt Lake City and Reno and these mines are a prolific copper areas. The Robinson Mine and Bingham Canyon Mine are the two most significant mines, wherein one is an open pit gold and copper mine and another one is a main open pit mine in the world, respectively. The Robinson Mine is producing 121 to 126 Mlbs of copper annually since 2005 and the Bingham Canyon Mine has turned out more copper of around 14.5 Mt.
Source: http://www.vikingmineralsinc.com/