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North of 60 Mining News - November 20, 2024
Visible gold observed in core from the final 2024 hole drilled at Trapper.
Trapper lies at the southeast end of a large gold anomaly that also encompasses the Camp Creek copper-gold target.
Brixton Metals Corp. Nov. 19 said the final batch of assays from its 2024 drilling at Trapper continues to confirm the continuity of strong mineralization at this gold-rich target on the company's Thorn copper-gold project in Northern British Columbia.
Located about 55 miles (90 kilometers) northwest of Juneau, Alaska, Thorn is a 2,945-square-kilometer (1,137 square miles) property that is best known for the up to one-mile-long intercepts of porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum mineralization, drilled at the Camp Creek target.
While much of the 2024 drilling at Thorn is focused on expanding Camp Creek and testing other similar porphyry copper-gold targets identified across the district-scale Thorn property, the program also included 2,746 meters of drilling in 11 holes to expand upon the epithermal gold mineralization at Trapper.
Lying roughly seven kilometers (4.4 miles) southeast of Camp Creek, Trapper is a more gold-forward target that is part of an 11-kilometer (6.8 miles) gold geochemical anomaly that encompasses both targets.
Trapper lies at the southeast end of a large gold anomaly that also encompasses the Camp Creek copper-gold target.
Drilling over the previous three seasons has begun to outline a thick body of gold mineralization that extends for at least 600 meters along the Lawless Fault.
Highlights from drilling completed at Trapper from 2021 to 2023 include:
• 139 meters averaging 2.14 grams per metric ton in hole THN21-186.
• 304.5 meters averaging 1.19 g/t gold in hole THN22-237.
• 398.3 meters averaging 0.95 g/t gold in hole THN22-243.
• 253 meters averaging 1.4 g/t gold in hole THN22-244.
This year's program at Trapper included infill and step-out drilling to test the extent and continuity of mineralization along the Lawless Fault zone that runs across the target.
Highlights from previously reported 2024 holes at Trapper include:
• 254 meters averaging 0.48 g/t gold from a depth of six meters from a depth of 201 meters in hole THN24-300, including six meters averaging 4.19 g/t gold and 22.1 g/t silver.
• 216.8 meters averaging 0.25 g/t gold from a depth of 154 meters in hole THN24-303, including 11 meters averaging 2.34 g/t gold and 1.52 g/t silver.
• 227.5 meters averaging 0.5 g/t gold from a depth of 40 meters in hole THN24-304, including two meters averaging 44.43 g/t gold and 79.3 g/t silver.
• 77.2 meters averaging 0.9 g/t gold from a depth of 184.8 meters in hole THN24-308, including 2.25 meters averaging 18.5 g/t gold and 22.3 g/t silver.
The final batch of 2024 Trapper results is from two infill holes drilled to test continuity of gold mineralization in the area of hole THN22-237.
The best intercept came in hole THN24-311, which cut 48.5 meters averaging 1.14 g/t gold from a depth of 73 meters, including a three-meter subsection averaging 5.67 g/t gold.
Hole 24-310 cut 42 meters averaging 0.61 g/t gold from a depth of 34 meters, including nine meters averaging 1.16 g/t gold.
"The Trapper target remains open in multiple directions and with supporting geochemical, geophysical and structural data, several promising areas for potential expansion have been identified," said Brixton Metals Vice President of Exploration Christina Anstey. "We look forward to drilling at the Trapper Target in 2025."
In the meantime, Brixton awaits the remaining assays from more than 10,000 meters of drilling carried out this year at Camp Creek and other more copper-forward targets at Thorn.
Over his more than 16 years of covering mining and mineral exploration, Shane has become renowned for his ability to report on the sector in a way that is technically sound enough to inform industry insiders while being easy to understand by a wider audience.
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