Blue River Resources has declared that drilling campaign has been started at the company’s Castle Copper project, which is situated 12 km towards the northeastern part of Princeton BC.
The total area of the Castle project includes more than 18,000 ac, which encloses approximately a strike length of 8 km of the Nicola fault trending towards north or south. This fault has been analyzed to locally control mineralized copper that was identified in Princeton and at the Copper Mountain mine. A 2011 drill campaign discovered strong chlorite-epidote and sericite-quartz alteration that is in line with a copper porphyry mineralization, which is identical to the Copper Mountain mine situated 25 km towards the southern part of the Castle property.
The company intersected porphyry-style copper mineralization and alteration over 200 m in last hole BXR-11-9. These alteration and mineralization demonstrate the prospect for huge and shallow porphyry system.
Blue River had previously revealed historic drilling data from a program conducted at the property in 1972. This data showed that mineralized copper may possibly be expanded towards the western and northern parts of the drilling performed at the Castle project last year. The future drill campaign will target this area, also known as the Christian zone.
The company has applied for a B.C. Mines Act exploration permit and is anticipating to begin the diamond drill program at the Highland North project after the permit is approved.
Blue River’s Director, Paul D. Gray, P. Geo, examined and certified the technical data and is a qualified person for this project.
Source: http://www.blueriv.com/
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