Sanatana Resources Inc told investors it has identified a new copper-bearing zone, named the Tarn zone, at the Oweegee Dome copper-gold project located within the famous Golden Triangle of northwest British Columbia.
The company said the discovery of the Tarn zone greatly upgrades the Skowill prospect and augments the porphyry copper-gold mineralization observed at the Malloy and Snowpatch zones over 8 kilometres (km) south at the Delta prospect.
The Oweegee Dome project is the subject of an option agreement between Sanatana and ArcWest Exploration Inc.
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“The discovery of copper mineralization at the Tarn zone along with the copper-gold porphyry mineralization at the Malloy and Snowpatch zones greatly enhances the overall perspectivity of the Oweegee Dome project,” president Buddy Doyle said in a statement.
“Our recent work greatly supports our original exploration concept that Oweegee hosts multiple rock-covered porphyry systems.
“Our continuing efforts will focus on identifying drill targets for 2022.”
The Oweegee Dome project hosts a number of additional porphyry copper-gold targets outside of the Delta target area including the Skowill East zone. The gossanous Skowill East zone is underlain by a structurally complex succession of Permian limestone and variably altered volcanic rocks.
The southeast margin of the 2 km gossanous ridge is underlain by a prominent 500-metre diameter magnetic high which remains open to the northwest. Field exploration resulted in the discovery of magnetite-specular hematite-quartz-pyrite-chalcopyrite veining flanked by intense silica-pyrite+/-sericite alteration with local barite veining.
This discovery has been named the Tarn zone. Additional mapping and sampling of the new discovery are scheduled for September 2021. Sanatana said an airborne magnetic survey of the Skowill Creek area recently is underway.
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