Blue River Resources has started the diamond drill campaign at its Castle copper project, which is situated 25 km to the northern side of the Copper Mountain open pit copper mine and 12 km to the northern part of the Princeton town in BC.
The company has targeted the NQ sized drilling, totaling 3,000 m, at the Castle property. This program has planned to examine the past surface exploration work and the expansion of the anomalous copper mineralization zone, whose area is 500 x 150 m, to the depth. This mineralization mainly includes chalcopyrite, magnetite, malachite ad pyrite along with negligible bornite and potential chalcocite and a sequence of ground and trenches based geophysical surveys and geochemical soil sampling surveys has outlined this mineralized zone. Blue River employs all these survey results in order to direct the recent diamond drill program. The program may take eight weeks for completion and the company will send all the core samples to AGAT Laboratories in B.C. to perform multi-element ICP analyses.
The President of the company has commented that this phase I drilling campaign is to find the project’s true prospective for housing the huge porphyry copper deposit, once after gathering Princeton’s one of the main mineral claims.
The company has 100% interest in the Castle project, whose total area is around 6,500 ha.