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Up to 135.5 g/t gold, 227 g/t silver, and 5.2% copper in rocks North of 60 Mining News – October 1, 2021
This sample of rocks collected from the Trapper target on Brixton Metals' Thorn project averaged 10.5 g/t gold.
This VG-speckled rock sample from Trapper returned 61.2 g/t gold and 227 g/t silver.
Brixton Metals Corp. Sept. 27 reported additional high-grade gold, along with strong silver and copper, in additional samples collected from the Trapper target on its 1,000-square-mile (2,600 square kilometers) Thorn project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle.
Earlier this year, Brixton discovered previously unrecognized visible gold while relogging core from 2011 drilling by a previous explorer at Trapper, a volcanic-hosted epithermal target about five miles (eight kilometers) southeast of the Camp Creek porphyry target at Thorn.
This prompted Brixton geologists to conduct further investigations at Trapper, leading to the discovery of visible gold at a previously unexplored outcrop along the east side of Inlaw Creek and about 500 meters down the hill from the holes where company geologists identified the VG in core.
Overall, the geologists collected 392 rock samples and 394 soil samples at Trapper this year. So far, Brixton has received assays from 207 of the rock samples. These results include 33 samples with grades higher than one gram per metric ton gold; 10 samples with greater than 10 g/t gold; and 10 samples with higher than 1% copper.
One of these rock grab samples, D131206, contained 135.5 g/t gold and 172 g/t silver. Two other nearby samples returned assays of 61.2 g/t gold and 227 g/t silver, and 39.3 g/t gold, and 128 g/t silver.
"These results include the highest gold values sampled by Brixton on the Thorn property in company history," said Brixton Metals Vice President of Exploration Christina Anstey.
The highest-grade copper encountered in the assays returned so far was 5.1% copper in a rock sample collected at Trapper. Other rock samples collected across the Trapper target area returned 2.76% copper, 1.93% copper, and 1.22% copper.
Based on the results from relogging core and the mineralization identified during the sampling and mapping program, Brixton decided to carry out drilling at Trapper this year.
In August, the company reported that VG was observed in six of the first eight holes drilled during the company's maiden drill program.
"We continue to expand the footprint of this gold-silver-copper system and have been pleased to confirm high grades at surface with shallow visible gold mineralization in drilling," said Anstey.
The VG observed in both core and outcrop coincides with a large resistivity low feature identified with a 1,072-line-kilometer magnetic and mobile magnetotelluric geophysical survey flown over Trapper, Camp Creek, and two other gold and copper target areas at Thorn.
Assay results from the drilling, 185 rock samples, and all the soil samples are pending.
"We are eagerly awaiting assay results from Brixton's maiden drill program at Trapper," Anstey added.
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