Copper Creek buoyed

Vancouver — Drilling by Firesteel Resources (FTR-V) on the Copper Creek project in northwestern British Columbia continues to deliver wide intercepts of porphyry copper-gold mineralization.

The latest hole cut more than 52 metres (from surface) grading 0.8% copper and 0.73 gram gold per tonne, with the entire hole, 242 metres of core, averaging 0.44% copper and 0.32 gram gold.

The first four holes of a planned 7-hole drill program have outlined a mineralized zone measuring 200 by 200 metres with near-surface copper enrichment in a supergene blanket.

The holes were drilled vertically about half-way through the enrichment blanket.

The drilling was designed to test the depth extent of the copper-gold mineralization at the DK (formerly Dick) prospect, where, earlier this year, chip sampling along a trench returned 0.37% copper and 0.23 gram gold over the entire 270 metres. A coincident copper-in-soil geochemical anomaly with gold values measures 500 by 500 metres.