Exploration at a gold and copper property outside Snow Lake is yielding promising results, says a junior miner.
Rockcliff Copper Corp. recently unveiled assay results from an ongoing drill program at its Talbot Deposit.
“Drilling the main lens of the Talbot Deposit in an area void of drilling has identified excellent grades over thick intervals,” Ken Lapierre, president and CEO of the company, said in a news release.
He said drilling will now focus on testing the property’s North Lens Deep Conductive Plate, a recently discovered geophysical target located below the Talbot Deposit's north lens.
Lapierre said further geophysics has discovered the property’s Main Lens Conductive Plate, a new untested geophysical target below the main lens of the Talbot Deposit. It could represent a down dip continuation of the main lens.
Geophysics has also revealed the West Talbot Deep Conductive Plate, a deep, flat-lying geophysical target, Lapierre said.
“Since most of the larger mines in the camp have multiple stacked lenses that were initially identified as conductive plates, we remain greatly encouraged not only by the consistent high metal grades and increased size potential of the deposit,” Lapierre said, “but by the metal potential of the untested stacked conductive plates proximal to the deposit.”
Located about 80 km outside Snow Lake, the Talbot Deposit is part of Rockcliff’s Snow Lake Project.
Rockcliff can earn a 51 per cent interest in Talbot from Hudbay by spending $6.12 million on exploration over the next six years. If Rockcliff earns its 51 per cent interest, Rockcliff (51 per cent) and Hudbay (49 per cent) would form a joint venture with Rockcliff as the operator.
