Fabled Copper Corp has reported impressive results from its 2021 surface field work on the Davis Keays Eagle Vein area, at its Muskwa Copper project, in northern British Columbia.
The Vancouver-based junior mining exploration company revealed that six additional parallel veins were discovered, and the values were as high as 6.73% copper.
Fabled Copper’s project is made up of the Neil property and the Toro property in British Columbia and the company also holds rights to the Bronson property.
In a statement, Fabled Copper CEO Peter Hawley pointed out that “a total of 19 specific areas” were mapped and prospected during the 2021 field season.
“We started the New Year by reporting our findings on the Lady Luck occurrence in the south end of the Neil Property, followed by the Mac; the 8A, Harris, the 2a and 2b, the Creek, Keays south, Belcher Creek, the Magnum Mine UAV Done Mission, the Magnum, the Neil UAV Drone Mission, the Neil, EM-1, Ram Creek, Davis Keays Eagle UAV Drone Mission and now the Davis Keays Eagle Vein area sampling,” said Hawley.
In terms of historic work, the Eagle and Harris veins at the Davis Keays copper prospect underwent surface and underground development at the same time as the Magnum Deposit from 1969-1971.
After a change of ownership in the mid-1970s, Kam Kotia Mines developed 700 meters along the Eagle vein on the 5950-feet level. Mineralized material from the underground work in the area was collected and around 58,000 tons of hand sorted mineralized material was shipped to the Bethlehem Copper smelter southwest of Kamloops.
More recently, Fabled Copper’s 2021 exploration mandate was to prospect the area surrounding the Davis-Keays adits and the Eagle Vein. The entrances to adits 6,950, 6,400 and 5,940 of the Davis-Keays past developed mine were located on the west side of the slope at elevations of 2,115 to 1,795 meters, according to the company.
While overflying the eastern slope, the exit of the 6,950 adit was seen on a near vertical cliff, the firm added. Another old excavation was found at a low elevation of 1,470 meters east of the west branch of Yedhe Creek. These excavations into the mountain span a vertical distance of 645 meters.
Given the Eagle Vein and mine workings are well documented, the aim of the field exploration was to see if other veins exist like the Eagle Vein, explained the company.
While prospecting a southwest trending tributary-ravine, south of the adits, 12 samples, D-723428 - 432, 434 - 439 and 441 were collected. Sample D-723428, of rubble mineralized with 12% chalcopyrite and trace bornite, taken downslope, elevation 2084 meters from the 6,400 adit, assayed 6.73% copper (Cu), noted the company.
Significantly, Fabled Copper said it found at least “six various striking, quartz-carbonate vein systems outcrops in the ravine east of the adits”. Seven chip and four grab samples were collected at these veins. The best copper results were obtained in the 020-degree striking vein, in two sampled sections 10 meters apart at an elevation of 1,986 meters.
The northern most sampled section, D-723434 & 435 averaged 0.70% Cu across 1.6 meters and the southern sampled section, D-723436-428 averaged 0.84% copper across 2.70 meters. The remaining chip and grab samples exhibited low Cu content, < 0.06.
Additional releases on the 2021 exploration program of the Eagle Vein area containing recon ground geophysics surveys results, with structural interpretation on the Davis Keays Eagle vein deposit will be “forthcoming in the coming weeks,” said Fabled Copper.
The Muskwa project comprises 76 claims in two non-contiguous blocks and totals around 8,064.9 hectares, in the Liard Mining Division in northern British Columbia.
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