High Lake drilling returns 7% copper across 71 metres

Joint venture partners Aber Resources (TSE) and Kennecott Canada have pulled a 71-metre intersection grading 6.9% copper from the western extension of the AB zone on the High Lake project in the Northwest Territories.

Hole 92-73, drilled between two previous holes that returned mostly pyrite, hit a stratiform massive sulphide lens overlying the mineralized alteration pipe. The high-grade interval included 37.5 metres grading 9.2% copper toward the bottom of the hole.

Mineralization at High Lake occurs in several small deposits containing a total of about five million tons grading 3.5% copper, 2.5% zinc and 0.023 oz. gold per ton. The bulk of the tonnage occurs as stringer copper-gold mineralization within the AB zone.

At High Lake this season, 19 holes were drilled, including a program on the zinc-rich D zone. Aber says next year’s drilling program will continue to probe the AB and D zones, trying to expand reserves and will also test new targets.

Aber President Grenville Thomas said sampling to follow up and prioritize airborne targets for drilling is still under way on the company’s Lac de Gras diamond properties.