High-grade core samples encouraging news for NorthWest Copper, best could be yet to come
If you’re a prospector contemplating the logistics of building a mine, the area northwest of Fort St. James is an attractive place to start.
This year, starting in late March, NorthWest drilled 55 holes in the area and received test results from 15 of them, all from the Kwanika North site. The results have so far confirmed earlier findings which revealed high-grade copper and gold mineralization, with much of it close to the surface. One of the Kwanika samples showed .86 per cent copper in a sample of rock 87 metres thick, considered high-grade quality.
“We’ve got a lot of exploratory work that we’ve done but we’ve only received a tiny bit of it back. That’s one of the unfortunate things about B.C. being very active right now for exploration. There are a lot of companies trying to get results back from the labs that test the samples on our behalf and that taken a lot longer than we want it to and that’s frustrating.”
If quantities are sufficient, NorthWest would then have to attract enough investment to start mining and build a single grinding mill to extract the two metals. Unlike northwestern B.C., which has much more rugged terrain and is more isolated, the area NorthWest is targeting is already well-served with infrastructure, close to the CN Rail line, with logging road access and BC Hydro lines nearby.
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