Kodiak Copper Corp announced it was restarting its drill program at its MPD copper-gold porphyry project in Southern British Columbia after work was temporarily halted last week due to wildfires.
"With improved conditions, wildfire risk to our operations has been reduced, allowing the company to resume work," the explorer said in a brief statement.
"The company will continue to monitor the situation closely and act accordingly throughout the remainder of the summer fire season."
Thanking fire fighters and first responders, the company's CEO Claudia Tornquist said the "short interruption" would not have a "material impact on the large exploration program we are undertaking at MPD this year".
"We are looking forward to many drill results throughout the autumn and winter and expect to update the market about our progress in the near future."
The MPD copper-gold porphyry project spans 147 sq km and sits in the prolific Quesnel Trough in south-central British Columbia, where Kodiak made a discovery of high-grade mineralization within a wide mineralized envelope in 2020.
In July this year, the company posted encouraging first drill results, which expanded the 2019 Gate zone discovery six times to a strike length of around 800 metres (m) from 125m previously.
The drilling also suggested that a 1.2 kilometre long copper-in soil target in the area is underlain by a 'significant' copper-gold-silver porphyry system.
The firm said 15 holes had been completed of the fully funded 30,000m program for this year.
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