Copper Fox Metals Inc (TSX-V:CUU, OTCQX:CPFXF) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Desert Fox Copper Inc, said they have hired Quantec Geosciences USA Inc for a deep penetrating geophysical survey on the 100%-owned Mineral Mountain project near Florence in Arizona.
"The planned ORION 3D Swath DCIP survey has been used at our advanced exploration stage Eaglehead copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry project in northern British Columbia with considerable success,” Elmer B Stewart, president and CEO of Copper Fox, said in a statement.
“Mineral Mountain is a Laramide age porphyry copper-molybdenum system with enriched gold concentrations like several porphyry systems in the Safford mining district in southeastern Arizona with potential to locate several additional porphyry centers on strike with the mineralized Laramide age intrusive."
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Highlights:
- The objective of the survey is to further define the horizontal and depth extensions of the open-ended chargeability and resistivity signatures associated with the 4,500-meter (m) long by 2,000m wide copper ‘footprint’.
- Detailed mapping of lithology, alteration and mineralization along the proposed geophysical survey lines is planned to better interpret the results of the geophysical survey.
- The survey is to start in May 2023 and may change subject to crew availability.
- Geochemical vectoring - copper/zinc (Cu/Zn) ratio - defined a 4,000m long northeast-southwest trending corridor potentially hosting two additional porphyry targets on strike with the mineralized Laramide age intrusive.
2023 Geophysical Survey
The planned 50.5 km survey is intended to map the chargeability and resistivity signatures of the porphyry mineralization and associated alteration patterns located within the multi-phase Laramide age intrusive.
“Utilizing the ORION 3D SWATH DCIP survey, configuration is expected to provide a better definition of the thickness of the surface weathering/oxidization profile, expand the limits of the chargeability and resistivity signature outlined in 2021 and map the two additional porphyry targets identified by the Cu/Zn ratio modelling,” the company said.
Mineral Mountain is a copper (gold-molybdenum) rich porphyry system characterized by a strong copper-magnetite association that was subjected to several episodes of weathering/oxidization commonly seen in porphyry copper systems in Arizona.
Copper Fox is a Tier 1 Canadian resource company which is focused on copper exploration and development in Canada and the United States.
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