Torr Metals (TSX-V:TMET) Inc said analytical results and preliminary interpretations from 1,108 soil samples collected from the Dalvenie Zone during the 2022 field season have successfully identified three new north-south trending copper soil anomalies that have assayed over 300 parts per million (ppm) across a 6.6 kilometre (km)-wide structural corridor encompassing the West, Central, and East Dalvenie Zones.
The 2022 soil sampling has also defined a widespread over 30 square kilometre (km2) footprint to strong pathfinder elements that have outlined a potential core zone to a high-level exposure of a porphyry system measuring around 1,900 metres (m) in strike-length and around 1,250m in width within the Central Dalvenie Zone.
The Dalvenie Zone, part of the 689 km2 Latham Project, is about 8 km south of the company's Gnat Pass Copper-Gold porphyry deposit, the Vancouver-based mineral exploration company said.
"From the start, our interpretation has been that the Dalvenie Zone has the potential to host a large-scale copper-gold mineralizing system genetically linked to a nearby or underlying porphyry,” Malcolm Dorsey, president and CEO, said in a statement.
“Our systematic approach from 2022 has now confirmed a geochemical fingerprint consistent with this interpretation, together with a significant expansion of targets far beyond the limits of the historical 2.1 km2 soil grid. With the combination of all of our coincident data including strong pathfinder elements, geophysical anomalies, high-grade copper-gold rock grab samples, and broad mapped alteration at-surface we are confident that we will be able to optimize drill targeting of the untested porphyry target and look forward to starting the next phase."
Among the highlights were newly defined copper soil anomalies in the West and East Dalvenie Zones, measuring 500m to 1,200m in strike-length, that are typically coincident with north-south trending shear structures that parallel those known to host high-grade copper and gold within the Central Dalvenie Zone.
The existence of significant anomalous copper and arsenic soil anomalies to the west and east of the Central Dalvenie Zone indicates a much larger and fertile district-scale mineralizing system than previously recognized.
The company noted that of the 1,108 soil samples collected, 283 yielded over 100 ppm copper, 25 samples over 300 ppm copper and 17 samples over 500 ppm copper.
It added that coincident anomalous pathfinder elements occur within an over 30 km2 geochemical footprint. The elements include copper, molybdenum (Mo), lithium (Li), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), tellurium (Te), and selenium (Se).
Notably, the company said the 2022 soil sampling results significantly expanded the scale and continuity of the Dalvenie Zone mineralizing system, resulting in an improved definition of the exploration model as well as identification of the potential for a much larger copper-gold system than previously recognized.
Torr Metals focuses on defining and developing the substantial exploration and resource potential of the around 689 km2 Latham Copper-Gold Project, located within the prolific Golden Triangle of northern British Columbia.
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