Wie erwartet startet Explorer
Desert Star Resources das
erste Bohrprogramm auf dem aussichtsreichen
Copper King Kupfer-Projekt in
Arizona.
Desert Star's Kupfer-Liegenschaften liegen nur wenige Kilometer vom
Weltklasse Resolution-Projekt (
BHP und
Rio Tinto) entfernt und befinden sich ebenfalls in einem
renommierten Kupfer-Minenbezirk (siehe Map unten).
Zunächst startet Desert Star auf
Copper King mit einem
Diamanten-Bohrprogramm, das einen
Umfang von 2.100 Metern haben wird. Im Fokus des
ersten Bohrprogramms steht die
Entdeckung eines
Porphyr-
Bereiches, der wie so oft auf
bedeutende Kupfer-Mineralisierungen hindeutet.
CEO
Vince Sorace erläuterte mir in einem Gespräch in
Vancouver, dass
Desert Star's Geologen-Team umfangreiche Arbeit geleistet hat, um die
attraktivsten Bohrziele zu identifizieren. Das Team kann
weitreichende Erfahrungen und einen
erfolgreichen Track-Rekord bei dieser Art von
Kupfer-Entdeckungen vorweisen.
Läuft alles nach Plan, dann wird der
Kupfer-Explorer im
März die
ersten Bohrresultate vorlegen können..
Desert Star Commences Drilling at Copper KingVancouver, B.C., February 1, 2016.
Desert Star Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: DSR) (“Desert Star” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has commenced drilling at its Copper King project in the Superior district of Pinal County, Arizona. Desert Star is conducting a diamond drill program (approximately 2100 meters) targeting a significant porphyry-style alteration footprint that coincides with historic copper workings and an IP geophysical anomaly, approximately 5km from the Resolution Copper Project (Fig. 1).
Copper King is situated in a prolific, high-grade copper camp, and the drill target is characterized by local high-temperature alteration of porphyry dikes and diabase intrusions, in addition to evidence of telescoping, similar to that documented at other deposits in the district. The Copper King project is underlain by favorable host rocks and has no post mineral cover (as at the Resolution Copper Project), as porphyry-style alteration exists at surface. Additional technical information regarding the Copper King project is available on the Desert Star website at:
www.desertstar.ca.
Copper King Exploration HighlightsField work conducted by Desert Star Resources at the Copper King Project has consisted of 1:5000 scale geological mapping, clay alteration studies (short wave infrared measured by Terraspec), and a 3D Volterra IP study by SJ Geophysics. This work has defined a 4 x 5 kilometer anomaly that is prospective for porphyry copper mineralization, located approximately 5 kilometers away from the Resolution Copper Deposit. High grade copper is found in small-scale historic workings on the property, and geological mapping and sampling have accurately mapped the distribution of diabase, limestone/marble and quartz diorite units which are favorable host rocks, and have the capacity to host high-grade copper mineralization.
The Copper King footprint contains a large volume of quartz-sericite-pyrite (QSP) and marble-serpentine-calc-silicate altered rocks with smaller internal zones of secondary biotite, silica and tremolite, all of which can occur above and lateral to copper mineralization in porphyry systems. Copper King is cored by a large IP anomaly consisting of a coincident chargeability high/resistivity low measuring 1.3 x 1.1 kilometers. This response is consistent with the expected response from disseminated sulphides associated with porphyry copper mineralization.