Northstar Gold Corp. (CSE:NSG) has announced the results of a surface sampling program at the Cam Cooper mine site of the company’s flagship Miller property in Ontario.
The program returned high-grade copper assays ranging from 0.99% to 31.8% copper from 19 samples containing massive to semi-massive sulphides, the company said. The weighted average of the samples was 14% copper.
One sample that assayed 31.8% copper also returned 452 grams per ton of silver, which suggests that silver can also be a significant mineralization component.
"Northstar's limited Cam Copper mine sampling program substantiates a high-grade critical minerals copper component to the spectrum of alkalic gold-telluride-copper zones at the Miller Gold property," CEO Brian Fowler said in a statement.
"Northstar is fully permitted to drill test the down plunge extension of the Cam Copper massive sulphide zones and, in addition to expansion drilling at the Allied Gold zone, is formulating exploration plans targeting similar high-grade massive sulphide copper zones along strike southeast of the Cam Copper mine site."
Going forward, Northstar has planned a ground truthing and sampling program of surficial geophysical anomalies along strike to the southeast of the Cam Copper mine. The goal is to find analogous targets that could potentially host massive copper sulphides.
Follow-up drilling is also being planned to test the down plunge extension of the bornite-rich pods of massive sulphide in zones 1 and 2.
More details from the results can be read here.
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