PolarX outlines rapid expansion at Alaska Range Project
The project has upside potential for larger porphyry copper‐gold discoveries.
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ASX:PXX
PolarX Ltd (ASX:PXX) is an Australian exploration and development company with a project portfolio exclusively in the United States. The primary interest is exploration and development of the Alaska Range Project, which contains the Caribou Dome Project and the Stellar Project. PolarX also has an interest in the high-grade Humboldt Range Gold-Silver Project in northwest Nevada, which comprises 177 lode mining claims and complements the Alaskan project, providing year-round exploration.
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The project has upside potential for larger porphyry copper‐gold discoveries.
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Subsidiary JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited has acquired further shares with a value of $340,000.
The company has made significant progress on its Alaska Range Project this year.
As the copper-gold JORC resource is expanded, so are the potential project economics.
The company has added substantial size to its Alaska Range copper-gold skarn mineralisation in 2018.
The 2018 drilling has added significant size to the Zackly copper-gold skarn mineralisation.
Importantly, the results directly coincide with an IP anomaly 100‐150 metres below the surface.
Broad near-surface intersections have been returned from drilling near the existing inferred resource.
A new high-resolution aeromagnetic survey has provided a significant improvement in resolution.
The full results of the 14,000-metre drilling campaign are expected by December.
The project includes the “smoking gun” deposit Zackly which contains an inferred resource of 41,200 tonnes of copper, 213,000 ounces of gold and 1.5 million ounces of silver, with mineralisation continuing 100 metres below the bounty.
The new zone lies 850 metres along strike from the existing Zackly JORC resource.
Drill results continue to reveal the large growth potential of the Zackly copper-gold deposit.
The company continues to drill mineralisation outside the JORC resource boundary.
The project includes the “smoking gun” deposit Zackly which contains 41,200 tonnes of copper, 213,000 ounces of gold and 1.5 million ounces of silver.
Mineralisation is extended below the inferred resource of 41,000 tonnes of copper, 213,000 gold ounces and 1.5 million silver ounces.
Alaska Range hosts a resource of 127,000 tonnes of copper, 213,000 gold ounces and 1.5 million silver ounces.
The drop-off in discoveries of more than 500,000 tonnes was experienced despite a 114.5% increase in exploration expenditure between the two periods.
Funding was recently secured to accelerate exploration and development activities.
Funds to be used for airborne/ground geophysical surveying and preliminary drilling.