Mineral Exploration

52 Mineral Exploration | amebc.ca mineralization below the pit with 8,900 metres of drilling. The company is planning for 5,000 metres of exploration drilling at the New Ingerbelle deposit. Happy Creek Minerals drilled 1,764 metres in six holes at its Rateria project, expanding Zone 2 southward with a 105.5-metre intersection of 0.37 per cent copper and 0.14˜g/t gold. Amarc Resources Ltd. has completed the site component of a $3.3-million program at IKE (copper-molybdenum, silver). Skarn Engold Mines Ltd. announced a discovery at its Lac La Hache project in early 2017, with an intersection drilled in a gravity anomaly of 1.76 per cent copper, 0.27˜g/t gold, 10.29˜g/t silver and 35.8 per cent iron over 26.57 metres. Followup drilling was interrupted by forest fires, but resumed in September with a planned 10,000 metres. Happy Creek Minerals planned 5,000 metres of drilling at the Fox tungsten project, following up on a 2016 resource update of 486,000 tonnes 0.817 per cent tungsten trioxide indicated and 361,000 tonnes 1.568 per cent inferred. The 2017 drilling is to expand the resource in advance of work toward a preliminary economic assessment. New Craigmont is Nicola Mining Inc.'s new name for the Thule Copper project at the site of the former Craigmont Mine near Merritt. Work in 2017 included an IP survey designed to confirm and expand an earlier survey, reverse-circulation drilling to test stockpiles of historically mined material at the site (including an estimated 80 to 90 megatonnes), and exploration drilling at the Embayment and Titan Queen zones. VMS and SEDEX Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. is doing mapping and soil geochemistry at Acacia (zinc-lead-silver) following a compilation of historical data. Troymet Exploration Corp. carried out a test gravity survey at its Redhill zinc-copper-gold-silver project and reported several anomalies for followup. Imperial Metals Corporation's Ruddock Creek zinc-lead-silver project remains in the pre-application stage of environmental assessment. The Harper Creek project of Yellowhead Mining Inc. is on care and maintenance and is paused in the review phase of environmental assessment. Specialty metals and industrial minerals Commerce Resources Corporation has an agreement to test a one-tonne sample of Upper Fir niobium-tantalum deposit material from its Blue River property. Zeolite programs active in 2017 include the Z-1 quarry and area prospects (ZMM Canada Minerals Corp.) and Bromley Creek (Canadian Zeolite Corp.). SOUTH CENTRAL REGION

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