Fabled Copper Corp has announced additional results from its 2021 surface field work on its Muskwa Copper Muskwa Copper project in northern British Columbia, Canada.
The Vancouver-based junior miner’s Muskwa project is made up of the Neil and the Toro properties and it also holds rights to the Bronson property.
In a statement, Fabled Copper CEO Peter Hawley said: "To date we have reported on the sampling of 14 copper occurrences, related drone unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions and ground geophysics on the Neil property.”
“This completes the 2021 work on the Neil and now we will report on the 2021 work on the Bronson property to the south of the Neil," he added.
The Bronson property is made up of four mineral tenures covering 2,524.6 hectares where the key objective of the 2021 work program was to carry out a field campaign consisting of reconnaissance prospecting across the Bronson claims, finish a focused program at the Book 6 vein target consisting of detailed sampling, and very low frequency electromagnetic and ground magnetometer geophysical surveys and a UAV drone photogrammetry survey.
Fabled revealed that 56 days were spent on the property with 199 rock samples taken on seven area prospects — the Book 6, Book 9, B00k 10, 428 Central, 428 South, PJ105 and PJ100.
The company highlighted the Bronson property where an UAV photogrammetry survey was conducted over the Book 6 vein target on August 14, 2021. Fabled Copper pointed out that the purpose of the UAV photogrammetry survey was to achieve the following goals:
- Generate high-resolution photogrammetry datasets for the vein target to better understand bedrock controls on copper mineralization
- Generate high-resolution Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) to assist with 3D modelling of the targets
- Generate baseline imagery to record current state of surface disturbance at sites that will be actively explored in coming years
The equipment used to carry out the UAV photogrammetry surveys consisted of a DJI Phantom 4 Pro v2.0 optical 20-megapixel camera drone with both a mechanical shutter and an upgraded rover L1/L2 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver.
Four terrain-following UAV missions were carried out to survey the Book 6 target and 861 photographs were acquired during surveying, said the company. Data products generated included 3 cm resolution color orthophoto mosaics, Digital Surface Models (DSM) and Digital Terrain Models (DTM). Hillshade models were also generated for each target area.
The data generated was used for in-field targeting of visual copper occurrences on the color orthophoto due to the 3 centimetre resolution, which led to field examination of the mineralization and the sampling of the Book 6 vein, where a total of 113 samples were collected as a first pass evaluation, reported the company.
By using the results of the data gathered by the UAV drone mission in the 2021 field season, Fabled Copper noted that its field crew “will further evaluate the Book 6 copper occurrence.”
The Muskwa Project comprises a total of 76 claims in two non-contiguous blocks and totals approximately 8,064.9 hectares in the Liard Mining Division in northern British Columbia.
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