Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (OTC:LBSR), doing business as Liberty Star Minerals, announced that field operations have commenced at its wholly owned Red Rock Canyon gold property, next to its Hay Mountain property in southeast Arizona.
The company said it is conducting a channel sampling program across the gold-bearing jasperoid lenses throughout the property.
Samples will be broken out using a hammer and chisel, photographed, bagged and shipped to the ALS Global prep lab in Tuscon, with this unit-specific sampling method chosen to show the distribution of gold within the lenses.
”Given the plentiful jasperoid outcrops and a database describing historical findings in the area, channel sampling is both a practical and economical next step exploring for gold in this geologic setting,” Liberty Star chief geologist Jim Bryce said in a statement.
“When surveyed, mapped and sampled to industry standards, channel samples can be considered as horizontal drill holes. This detailed, surveyed sampling procedure will allow us to generate a near-surface gold resource and provide direction for future drilling on the site.”
The company noted that it plans to continue exploring both the Red Rock Canyon and Hay Mountain properties.
On its drilling program at Hay Mountain, Bryce said: “We’ve seen significant alteration in the core samples and await analytical results for further proof of concept.”
Liberty Star Minerals is an Arizona-based mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Arizona and the southwest USA.