West Cirque Resources Limited announced diamond drilling at its Castle gold, silver and copper property located 68 kilometers south of Dease Lake in the Liard Mining Division, British Columbia. The program will test approximately 1100 meters of 5.5 kilometers long alteration zone associated with widespread gold, silver and copper.
The Castle project comprises ten claims including seven 100% West Cirque owned claims and three claims under option from Bearclaw Capital Corporation. The project is located in the Klastline Plateau area of northwestern BC, 10 kilometers west of BC Highway 37. The property is 25 kilometers northwest of Imperial Metals' Red Chris copper and gold porphyry deposit and 17 kilometers north of NGEx Resources' GJ copper gold porphyry deposit, presently under option to Teck Resources Limited.
Previous exploration of the Castle Property in the 1980's by Teck discovered high grade epithermal quartz chalcedony and pyrite and barite veins which returned assays up to 138.2 grams per tonne gold and 434 grams per tonne silver from grab samples. Soil sampling by Teck outlined a 150 to 400 by 2000 meter Cu Au anomaly, open to the east with up to 5593 parts per million Cu and 1400 parts per billion Au in soil.
A diamond drill program completed by Teck in 1988 intersected gold, silver and copper mineralization over 500 meter strike length. Two drill holes were terminated at shallow depths while 8 of the other 9 holes intersected significant mineralization including 9.2 meters grading 3.75 gram per tonne Au, 26.4 gram per tonne Ag and 0.13% Cu in drill hole 88-7. Several Teck drill holes ended in mineralization including 88-8, 88-9 and 88-1. Less than half of the Teck core was assayed, making calculation of longer intervals impossible.
Reconnaissance mapping and sampling carried out by West Cirque in 2011 identified disseminated and sheeted quartz chalcopyrite veinlet copper mineralization in porphyritic intrusive rocks 300 meters east of Teck's easternmost drill holes. Rock samples from this zone returned assays of 0.44 gram per tonne Au and 0.13% Cu, 2.13 gram per tonne Au and 0.04% Cu over 2.5 meters, 0.75 gram per tonne Au and 0.02% Cu over 7.0 meters and 0.31 gram per tonne Au and 0.10% Cu over 8.0 meters. A 600 meter long soil anomaly extending to the southeast from the porphyry outcrops contains Cu values to 4313 ppm and Au values to 1400 ppb this zone has not been previously tested by drilling.
Source - West Cirque Resources
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