Torr Metals (TSX-V:TMET) told investors it has commenced its 2023 surface exploration program on its 100%-owned 689 square kilometre Latham copper-gold project, located along Highway 37 within the prolific Golden Triangle region of northern British Colombia.
The Vancouver-based mineral exploration company said in a statement that the initial phase of fieldwork will consist of rock and soil sampling that follows the regional property-scale geochemical survey completed in 2022.
In addition to rock grab sampling, the planned 2023 survey consists of up to 1,300 soils that will infill and test the potential expansion of highly anomalous copper, gold, silver and molybdenum identified in soils from previous programs at the Stain Creek, Lutz, and Hotai exploration targets.
The company noted that 2022 follow-up survey work at these targets confirmed the presence of large-scale alteration footprints, multiphase intrusions, and robust epithermal porphyry styles of mineralization coincident with or proximal to historical soil anomalies.
It said there may be significant potential to delineate new discoveries within these areas, securing a strong pipeline of future drill-ready exploration targets across multiple defined multi-kilometre copper-gold trends.
“With very limited historical exploration across the 689 km2 Latham project Torr has seized the opportunity to rapidly define our road-accessible copper-gold exploration targets at Dalvenie, Stain Creek, and Huey; in addition to our work on the Gnat Pass copper-gold porphyry deposit,” Torr president and CEO Malcolm Dorsey said in a statement.
“Our initial planned 2023 efforts will focus on completing the work of upgrading Stain Creek to drill-ready status. While additional soil surveys have the potential to establish Lutz and Hotai as significant new copper-gold exploration targets, further indicating the prolific copper-gold endowment throughout our 100% owned project."
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