Brixton Metals drills 0.34% CuEq over 709 metres at Thorn, British Columbia
Brixton Metals Corp. [BBB-TSXV; BBBXF-OTCQB] reported 2022 drilling results from the Camp Creek Cu-Au-Ag-Mo Porphyry Target on its wholly owned Thorn Project in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. The Thorn Project is located within the Taku River Tlingit and Tahltan First Nation’s traditional territory.
Highlights: Hole THN22-213 yielded 709.00 metres of 0.34% CuEq (copper equivalent) from 534 metres depth, including 484.00 metres of 0.41% CuEq, including 362.00 metres of 0.44% CuEq, including 102.15 metres of 0.61% CuEq, including 64.15 metres of 0.65% CuEq.
Hole THN22-231 yielded 778.08 metres of 0.30% CuEq from 519.5 metres depth, including 531.00 metres of 0.36% CuEq, including 102.00 metres of 0.46% CuEq.
This copper dominant porphyry mineralization remains wide open, including at depth.
Gary Thompson, Chairman & CEO, stated, “We are excited to see the potential scale emerge of the Camp Creek Porphyry Target. The distance between these two reported holes is 420 metres. Drill hole 213 was collared 235 metres west-southwest of the collars for 201-184 and drill hole 231 was collared 280 metres north from the collars for 201-184.”
Thompson added, “We have yet to process all of the 2022 data and convene our maiden technical committee meeting with BHP but one of the 2023 exploration objectives may be to identify the high-grade copper core of the Camp Creek porphyry and to test the limits of the mineralized system.”
Vice President of Exploration, Christina Anstey, stated, “We are encouraged by the large-scale potential of the Camp Creek Copper Porphyry Target. We collected a molybdenite sample for age dating (pending) from hole 150 which was drilled to 829m in the Oban Diatreme Breccia (see Figure 2 and 3) where considerable mineralized (chalcopyrite-molybdenite) porphyry clasts were identified. This is important for a few reasons: one is that hole 150 is collared 1000 metres east from hole 213 and we have yet to make the connection genetically or physically from the mineralized diatreme to the porphyry; and two, if we can make this link through age dating then it really opens up the eastern potential of the target which has not been drilled at depth.”
A total of 18,122 metres were drilled during the 2022 season, including 6,484 metres at the Camp Creek Porphyry Target and 9,119 metres at the Trapper Target. A total of 520 rocks and 1,157 soil samples were collected with a primary focus on the Metla and Trapper Targets, in addition to the East Copper Target and the Val Copper Target. A total combined 1,229 line-km of airborne magnetics and radiometrics were flown over the Metla, Trapper, Val and East Targets. The drill program started in May and was completed in late October.
The 2,863 km2 Thorn Project is located at the northern trend of the Golden Triangle, Canada, approximately 90 km northeast of Juneau, Alaska. The Thorn Project hosts a district-scale 80-km megatrend of Triassic to Eocene, volcano-plutonic complex with several styles of mineralization related to porphyry and epithermal environments. Fourteen large-scale copper-gold targets have been identified for further exploration.