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A Flin Flon-based junior miner has scooped up a prospect near the shuttered Hudbay copper smelter. Copper Reef Mining Corp. has acquired the Hamell Lake Property for $5,000 and 50,000 shares, subject to approval from the Canadian National Stock Exchange. The property consists of three claims totaling 2,219 hectares. It is just to the west of the smelter, lying stratigraphically along what Copper Reef said is believed to be the folded equivalent of the Main Flin Flon Mine stratigraphy. The property straddles the Hanson Lake Road, two km west of Flin Flon and immediately northeast of Creighton. The claims occur three km west of Copper Reef's Smelter Claims, which lie immediately north of the Callinan and Flin Flon ore bodies. Survey Copper Reef said the property was recently flown by an airborne electromagnetic survey that showed a number of undrilled anomalies. The felsic rocks are best developed in the centre of Hamell Lake, where they are interpreted by a government geologist to represent a major felsic dome, the company said. Copper Reef plans mapping and prospecting of the known gossans and the areas of the new airborne anomalies this summer. This is to be followed up with a 1,000-metre drill program on the two best targets. No securities regulatory authority has reviewed or accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this information. _ Compiled from a Copper Reef Mining Corp. news release
