New Canadian copper hunt kicks off for American WestDoug Bright,...

New Canadian copper hunt kicks off for American West

Doug Bright, Mon, 22 April 2024 1:26PM


American West geological field crew sampling at the Canadian Storm project.


American West Metals has vowed to uncover new zones of copper mineralisation at its Storm project on Canada’s Somerset Island in Nunuvut after kicking off this year’s exploration and resource definition drilling program.

The initial reverse-circulation (RC) campaign that will focus on high-priority and high-grade copper targets will also further explore the resource potential at the company’s Thunder prospect where last year’s drilling jagged a 48.6m copper intercept going 3 per cent copper, in addition to priority electromagnetic (EM) targets next to its Cyclone deposit.

One of the EM anomalies about 300m north-east of Cyclone yielded anomalously high conductivity of greater than 17,000 Siemens. A second and bigger EM anomaly, just 400m further to the west and centred 400m north of Cyclone, yielded a drill hit of 7.6m going 1 per cent copper. The best hole reported for Cyclone was a 16m intercept going 3.07 per cent copper.

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