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One hole cuts 262 meters of 1.04 g/t gold in target at Thorn North of 60 Mining News – December 23, 2022
Visible gold encountered at a depth of 131 meters in hole THN22-255 drilled at the Trapper target on Brixton's Thorn project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle.
Bornite copper mineralization and visible gold in a sample collected from the Metla target about 20 kilometers southeast of Trapper on Brixton's Thorn project in Northern BC.
Brixton Metals Corp. Dec. 20 announced wide intercepts of strong gold mineralization in the Trapper target on the company's Thorn project in Northern British Columbia.
A 2,863-square-kilometer (1,105 square miles) land package at the northern corner of BC's famed Golden Triangle, the Thorn project hosts both epithermal gold targets such as Trapper and large-scale porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum targets such as Camp Creek about five miles (eight kilometers) to the northwest.
The 2022 program at Thorn included 18,200 meters of drilling in 58 holes. Most of this drilling was completed at Camp Creek and Thorn, but the company also tested the Outlaw gold and Metla copper-gold targets this year.
The latest batch of assays is from 15 holes drilled at Trapper; highlights from this drilling include:
• 191.3 meters averaging 0.53 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 2.7 meters in hole THN22-245, including 28 meters averaging 1.33 g/t gold.
• 102 meters averaging 1.04 g/t gold from a depth of four meters in hole THN22-254, including 39 meters averaging 2.11 g/t gold.
• 262 meters averaging 1.04 g/t gold from a depth of 12 meters in hole THN22-255, including 75.5 meters averaging 2.35 g/t gold.
• 89.6 meters averaging 0.8 g/t gold from a depth of four meters in hole THN22-257, including 38 meters averaging 1.75 g/t gold.
"We are encouraged by the broad near surface gold intercepts on the Trapper Gold Target. Gold mineralization including visible gold observed in the quartz diorite host has significantly increased the scale of the Trapper Target which remains open in all directions," said Brixton Metals Vice President of Exploration Christina Anstey.
In November, BHP Group Ltd. agreed to invest at least C$13.4 million to acquire a 19.9% interest in Brixton.
BHP's interest in Brixton is likely related to the wide sections of porphyry copper mineralization drilled at Camp Creek and the wider copper potential identified across the wider Thorn property.
Earlier this year, Brixton announced that hole THN22-201 drilled at Camp Creek cut 67.7 meters averaging 0.25% copper, 0.09 g/t gold, 2.39 g/t silver, and 186 ppm molybdenum.
Brixton geologists also collected samples with massive bornite copper mineralization and visible gold at Metla, a target about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) southeast of Trapper. Assays from these impressive samples, as well as from additional drilling completed this year, are pending.
"We look forward to reporting on the additional 19 holes from Trapper Target and the remaining 3 deep holes from the Camp Creek Copper Porphyry Target as assays become available from the 2022 Thorn program," said Anstey.
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