- West Mining Corp. (WEST) has announced the analytical results from seven diamond drill holes in the Kena Copper Zone area
- Its 100-per-cent-owned Kena Gold and Copper Project is located in southeastern BC
- All 7 holes intercepted strong zones of alteration and silicification along with variable pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization throughout
- West Mining Corp. is a mineral exploration company acquiring and developing advanced and prospective early-stage exploration projects
- Shares of West Mining Corp. are up 6.67, trading at $0.08 at 3:50 pm ET
West Mining (WEST) has released results from seven diamond drill holes in the Kena Copper Zone area of the Kena Project.
All 7 holes intercepted strong zones of alteration and silicification along with variable pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization throughout.
The diamond drill holes targeted copper-gold porphyry-style mineralization in the Kena Copper Zone, readily identified by a 2,500 x 1,000 metre strong copper soil geochemical anomaly.
The Kena Property hosts a large porphyry system consisting of a gold-rich core surrounded by a broad halo with a copper-gold signature, as illustrated by the gold and copper soil geochemical maps below.
Within the central core area of the Kena Property, the Gold Mountain and Kena Gold Zones contain a combined resource estimate with 561,900 ounces of gold indicated and 2,773,100 ounces of gold inferred.
Adjacent to the gold resource area and gold geochemical anomalies are large coincident-induced polarization chargeability and copper soil geochemical anomalies.
Drilling earlier in 2021, to the northwest near the Starlight showing, discovered a new zone which returned a 53-metre drill intercept which averaged 0.51 per cent copper equivalent.
The Kena Copper Zone is identified by a significant copper geochemical anomaly associated with a strong zone of high chargeability, lying within mafic volcanic and subvolcanic diorites of the Rossland Group Elise Formation.
The soil anomaly has dimensions of 2.5 kilometres in length by an average of 450 metres in width as outlined by the 300 ppm copper contour.
“We are excited by the very broad intersections of copper mineralization from our initial 7 drill holes in the large and robust underexplored Kena Copper Zone,” said Nicholas Houghton, West Mining President and CEO.
“We are very much looking forward to our 2022 exploration season where we will continue drilling of the copper anomalies, as well as expanding the gold resource,” he added.
West Mining Corp. is a mineral exploration company acquiring and developing advanced and prospective early-stage exploration projects. It is fully focused on its 100-per-cent-owned, 9000 hectare Kena Project located in southeastern British Columbia.
Shares of West Mining Corp. are up 6.67, trading at $0.08 at 3:50 pm ET.
