Brixton Metals Corporation
(TSX-V: BBB, OTCQB:
BBBXF) (the “
Company” or
“
Brixton”) is pleased to announce that its Thorn
exploration camp is now open for the season and drilling has
commenced. Brixton is fully funded for the 2024 exploration program
with plans to drill test several new copper porphyry targets,
including the Trifecta, Cirque, and North Copper Targets, in
addition to further drilling at the Camp Creek Porphyry Target. The
Thorn Project is situated within the traditional territory of the
Tahltan and Taku River Tlingit First Nations.
2024 Thorn Exploration Plan Highlights:
- The 2024 exploration plan consists
of 12,000-17,000 meters of drilling across several target areas,
collecting 2500 rock and soil samples, as well as a ~90 sq km
ground MT Geophysics survey.
- Drilling has begun at the Camp
Creek Copper Porphyry Target to test for a high-grade copper core
to the Camp Creek porphyry. This first hole THN24-286 is being
drilled from the same pad as the 2023 hole, THN23-277, where copper
abundance as chalcopyrite and quartz vein density are increasing
downhole. The bottom 84 meters of hole 277 (957-1041m) returned
0.25% Copper, 0.09 g/t Gold, 3.78 g/t Silver and 142 g/t
molybdenum, including 2m of 0.66% copper, 0.24 g/t gold, 12.0 g/t
silver from 1032.88m. Hole 277 did not reach its target depth due
to poor ground conditions.
- The second Camp Creek hole is
planned as a northwest step out from holes 184 and 201. Hole 184
ended at 1198m in strong copper mineralization with the bottom of
the hole returning 318m of 0.42% copper, 0.17 g/t gold, 3.87 g/t
silver, and 294 g/t molybdenum, and hole 201 intersected 150m of
0.60% copper, 0.19 g/t gold, 5.12 g/t silver and 391 g/t
molybdenum. The objective is to test for a high-grade copper core
to the Camp Creek porphyry.
- The Trifecta Copper Target is
located 1.5km southeast of Camp Creek and may be drill tested based
on recent surface copper-in-rock and soil results and historical
drilling, which returned encouraging copper-molybdenum results. The
objective of this work is to search for a new porphyry copper
center.
- The Cirque Copper-Molybdenum Target
is located 3km east of Camp Creek where drilling will test for a
potential new porphyry center.
- The North Copper Target area is
located 15km northwest of Camp Creek, centered on a large surface
copper anomaly. Drilling is planned upon completion of the MT
survey and additional mapping and sampling with the objective of
confirming a new copper porphyry center.
Watch Chairman and CEO, Gary Thompson, provide a
summary of the 2024 drill program.
Chairman and CEO Gary R. Thompson stated: “The
Brixton team is excited to kick off the 2024 season. The Company
has $12.5 million budgeted for the Thorn Project in exploration
expenditures with the focus on new copper-gold porphyry
mineralization. The scale of surface copper-gold mineralization is
remarkable and Brixton is well positioned to generate new
discoveries.”
Figure 1. Thorn Project, Copper Geochemistry and
2024 Target Areas.
About Camp Creek Porphyry
Target
The original discovery of the Camp Creek
Corridor was made by Cominco geologists in 1952 who identified the
intense acid sulphate alteration in the area. However, it was not
until 2019 when chalcopyrite-molybdenum veined clasts were observed
below 400m depth within drill hole 150 on the Oban diatreme breccia
which cut 554.70m of 0.57 g/t Au, 0.24% Cu, 43.18 g/t Ag, 0.55% Zn,
and 0.28% Pb from 97.00m depth, providing evidence for a porphyry
at depth. In addition, A-type porphyry veins were identified from
relogging hole 121. Drill hole THN13-121 at the Glenfiddich Zone
(located one kilometer west from hole 150) cut 2.21m of 10.62%
copper, 583.05 g/t silver, and 2.55 g/t gold from a massive
enargite-tetrahedrite-pyrite vein. The copper porphyry at Camp
Creek was a blind discovery confirmed in 2021 when holes 183 and
184 were drilled below 1000m. The Camp Creek porphyry-style
mineralization generally starts 300-400 meters below the surface
level and remains open in all directions including at depth. Hole
THN23-261 ended in mineralization at 1650m depth.
Learn more about the Camp Creek Porphyry Target from Senior
Project Geologist, Corey James.
Figure 2. Drill Targets, Previous Collar
Locations, and Copper-Gold Geochemistry.
Figure 3. Hole THN23-277 photograph of
mineralized core at 1032.88m depth from a 2.00m Interval that
assayed 0.66% Cu, 112 ppm Mo, 12.0 g/t Ag, 0.24 g/t Au.
About the Trifecta Target
The Trifecta Target lies between the Camp Creek
porphyry target, the Outlaw Sediment-hosted Gold Target, and the
Chivas Porphyry Target. Surface mineralization is expressed as
structurally controlled narrow quartz veining with pyrite and
chalcopyrite. A massive magnetite-pyrite-chalcopyrite vein in
outcrop with a sericitic halo surrounded by strong silicification
was found during the 2023 field program that returned 2.46% Cu,
71.4 g/t Ag, and 0.36 g/t Au. The mineralization style at the
Trifecta Target is thought to be related to a copper porphyry at
depth.
About the Cirque Target
The Cirque Target area, located 3km northeast
from the main Camp Creek drilling, was revisited in 2023, which
identified a 1km by 2km northwest trending area of
pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization. Historic drilling in the Cirque
area by Julian Mining in 1965 intercepted sporadic copper
mineralization throughout thirteen holes. The best hole from the
1965 program returned 0.19% Cu and 710 ppm Mo over 10.67m.
Quartz-chalcopyrite veins were sampled in the area to the northwest
of this historic drilling returned 1.6% copper. Mineralization is
hosted primarily in Windy-Table volcanics and associated
intrusions. Silica-sericite-pyrite alteration throughout the target
area and the widespread pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization in
conjunction with favorable magnetic signatures and anomalous
porphyry-index indicators suggest that a potential Cu-Mo porphyry
system at Cirque remains untested.
About the North Copper Target
Area
In the northwest corner of the Thorn Project,
the Copper Target comprises a 15km by 5km area located 15km
northwest of Camp Creek. Mineralization consists of broad,
pervasive zones of disseminated and vein-hosted pyrite with
localized areas of chalcopyrite and molybdenite that may represent
the periphery of a porphyry system, as well as higher-grade narrow
polymetallic vein zones and skarn-style mineralization that are
more representative of distal environments.
Widespread mineralization at the main gossan
consists of a large area with abundant pyrite, locally up to 15%,
and smaller areas of increased chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and
magnetite coincident with a quartz-biotite-feldspar porphyry of
undetermined age. Copper-molybdenite mineralization is found in
quartz veins and as fracture-fill with samples in 2023 returning up
to 0.7% Cu and 2,290 ppm Mo. The north gossan is comprised of
extensive pyrite with lesser chalcopyrite and distal galena with up
to 5% pyrite and trace molybdenite in a hornblende granodiorite
directly east of the area. Mineralization at the south gossan is
predominantly associated with trace pyrite, chalcopyrite, and
magnetite mineralization within a potassium feldspar megacrystic
porphyry.
Higher-grade polymetallic mineralization is
generally concentrated along the margins of Late Cretaceous dykes
with silicified vein breccias extending 5-10 meters into the
surrounding Laberge Group country rocks. The breccias are composed
of sandstone and conglomerate of the Jurassic Laberge Group with
quartz-pyrite-galena-sphalerite and trace sulfosalt and
chalcopyrite filling the matrix.
A ground magnetotelluric (MT) geophysical survey
of approximately 90 square kilometer in area is planned prior to
drilling the King Copper Target.
2024 Gold Targets
While the dominant focus for 2024 at the Thorn
Project is to drill test copper porphyry targets for new discovery,
the Company continues to review gold targets for drill testing in
2024. These may include selective drilling at the Trapper
Epithermal Gold Target (best intercept to date: 64m of 5.7 g/t Au),
the Outlaw Sediment-hosted Gold Target (best intercept to date:
THN-14-128 returned 59.65 meters of 1.15 g/t Au and 5.64 g/t Ag
from a depth of 76 meters) and/or the Metla Target where surface
rock grab samples to date returned up to 62.7 g/t Au. MDRU
CollaborationBrixton Metals is collaborating with the
University of British Columbia’s Mineral Deposit Research Unit as
part of the BC Porphyry Study. An M.Sc. research project has
commenced on the Camp Creek Porphyry Target with the goal of
establishing geochemical and alteration vectors towards blind
porphyry mineralization. In addition, an alteration mapping project
is underway to characterize and map the large 4.1km x 3.9km
alteration footprint centered around Camp Creek. With porphyry
deposits frequently found in clusters, the use of petrographic,
geochemical, and mineral spectrometer analyses will aid with
vectoring outside of the currently drilled areas in order to
identify additional potential porphyry centers. Qualified
PersonMr. Corey A. James, P.Geo., is a Senior Project
Geologist for the Company who is a qualified person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101. Mr. James has verified the referenced
data disclosed in this press release and has approved the technical
information presented herein.
Corporate Update
The Company announces that the Board of
Directors, on receipt of a recommendation from the Compensation
Committee, has granted an aggregate of 7,950,000 incentive stock
options (the “Options”) to officers, directors, employees and
consultants to the Company at a per share exercise price of $0.13
for a period of 10 years from the date of grant. The total number
of optionees is 25. The Options will vest immediately with the
exception of Options granted to investor relations personnel, which
will vest in stages over 12 months from the date of grant with no
more than one-quarter of the Options granted to investor relations
personnel vesting in any three-month period in accordance with the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Options represent 1.7% of
the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of the Company.
The total options granted to date including this new grant is 5.94%
of the issued outstanding shares in the capital of the Company.
About Brixton Metals
Corporation
Brixton Metals is a Canadian exploration company
focused on the advancement of its mining projects. Brixton wholly
owns four exploration projects: Brixton’s flagship Thorn
copper-gold-silver-molybdenum Project, the Hog Heaven
copper-silver-gold Project in NW Montana, USA, which is optioned to
Ivanhoe Electric Inc., the Langis-HudBay silver-cobalt-nickel
Project in Ontario and the Atlin Goldfields Project located in
northwest BC. Brixton Metals Corporation shares trade on the TSX-V
under the ticker symbol BBB, and on the OTCQB
under the ticker symbol BBBXF. For more
information about Brixton, please visit our website at
www.brixtonmetals.com.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Mr. Gary R. Thompson, Chairman and CEOTel:
604-630-9707 or email: info@brixtonmetals.com
Michael Rapsch, Senior Manager, Investor
RelationsTel: 604-630-9707, email:
michael.rapsch@brixtonmetals.com
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risks: the need for additional financing; operational risks
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