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Porphyry
At the Cariboo Region mines, Taseko has a permit to drill Gibraltar
North, northwest of its current mining operations. At Mount Polley,
Imperial Metals Corporation reported results of underground
drilling beneath the Wight pit. To the south near Horsefly,
Consolidated Woodjam Copper Corp. reported discovering copper-
silver-gold mineralization at surface, near the northern boundary
of the Woodjam property. The company is planning an IP survey.
Highland Valley Copper Partnership (Teck Resources Limited)
planned drilling, expected to start in 2017, between the Highmont
and Lornex pits and an area (Athena) several kilometres east of
current mining operations.
At New Afton, New Gold Inc. completed a final round of infill
drilling at the C zone and tested several on-lease surface targets.
The C zone resource estimate is to be updated.
Mine-evaluation-stage porphyry projects include Ajax (KGHM
Ajax Mining Inc.), which is awaiting a decision on environmental
certification, and New Prosperity (Taseko Mines Limited), which is
the subject of litigation.
South of Merritt, Evrim Resources Corp. acquired the Axe
copper-gold porphyry prospect and completed the first phase
of its exploration program, including logging existing core,
reprocessing geophysical data, and other data review. Tower
Resources Ltd. reported results of step-out holes from drilling at
Rabbit North, a copper-gold prospect. One 247-metre interval
returned 0.51 per cent copper and 0.34šg/t gold. Further drilling
was scheduled for October. Sego Resources Inc. obtained a
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