Copper Mountain Mine: New High Grade Mineralization

Quantec’s Titan 24 Deep Earth Imaging has successfully provided a guide for deeper exploration and mine planning. The Titan survey results have been interpreted with three dimensional inversion programs, identifying several large areas of high chargeability. 

Copper Mountain completed the Titan 24 survey on the existing pits and is forging ahead with an aggressive exploration and development plan with a 30,000 m exploration drill program already underway.  A series of drill-holes are beginning to define a new zone of higher grade mineralization extending approximately 300 to 400 feet wide.  The feasibility study is on track and slated for completion early in the second quarter.

Copper Mountain Mining Corporation has a solid track record of exploration and development success. The Company owns 100% of the Copper Mountain Project with the goal of developing the project into a major copper and precious metal producer within the next three years.

 

 

Application:

Comprehensive minesite exploration program to identify potential for deep-seated, large porphyry deposits.

Challenges:

Several challenges existed at Copper Mountain. To date, conventional geophysics has been limited to detecting mineralization associated with copper porphyry ore bodies to depths of up to 100 metres. In addition, despite being highly prospective, the old mine workings, pits, talus and extreme culture such as powerlines presented real impediments to collecting high quality information.

Survey:

Copper Mountain Mining Corp contracted a Titan 24 geophysical survey over the central property including several past producing, nearsurface orebodies. The survey covered an area that hosts a large proportion of the recently announced 2.9 billion lbs of copper and assisted in determining the potential for additional ore at depth, possibly beneath the existing pits or elsewhere in the property.

 

 

Titan 24 Minesite Solution:

Titan 24 was designed to collect large volumes of data, simultaneously. Utilizing a large array configuration and advanced digital signal processing means that the system can often overcome many of the difficult challenges that have impeded conventional geophysics in brown field environments. The Quantec team that runs the system is highly skilled and trained to ensure the best possible results in these key, but difficult, environments.

Results:

“Currently known mineralization and the interpreted geological model for the area correlate well with the chargeability anomalies, providing confidence in the survey interpretation.  The anomaly was identified as part of the Titan 24 deep penetration geophysical survey on the Copper Mountain project. The Titan 24 survey outlined several large areas of high chargeability, both near to surface and at depth. The main mineralized intercept of 957 feet at 0.55% Cu includes 322 ft of 1.31% Cu, 5.53 gpt Ag and 0.34 gpt Au.”

A deep drill hole program targeted to test the large anomaly underneath Pit 3 has intersected significant mineralization 1200 feet below the current pit bottom.

Hole	Dip	From	Cu% CuEQ	Ag g/t	Au g/t
CM08P3	47°	2410ft to 2732ft	1.31	5.53	0.34 1.45