KRL steps up work at Copper Hill

With its appetite whetted by initial drilling at its wholly owned Copper Hill property, 85 km south of Timmins, Ont., KRL Resources (KRL-V) is preparing to launch a more detailed exploration program.

Hole 2 returned a 27.4-metre section of massive sulphides averaging 5.6 grams silver per tonne and containing anomalous amounts of arsenic, bismuth, copper, lead and antimony. The sulphides were encountered 98.7 metres down-hole at the base of an altered rhyolitic volcanic, and they correlate with the deepest sulphide zone intersected in hole 1.

Hole 1 hit three wide zones of massive and semi-massive pyrite hosted in altered basaltic rocks. True widths of these intersections measured 38, 42 and 16 metres. Only minor values of gold and base metals were reported,

highlights being 1.88% copper over 1 metre and 10 grams silver over 1.5 metres.

The Copper Hill property consists of 305 claims comprising 12,200 acres in MacMurchy and Churchill twps. These claims represent a rhyolite dome complex that is 10 km long and 1.5 km wide. KRL has documented the occurrence of chalcopyrite in late quartz-carbonate veins over strike lengths of about 2 km. Chemical sediments (exhalites) were also identified within, and marginal to, the rhyolite unit. Alteration types in the rhyolite include well-developed chlorite and sericite in stockwork zones.

KRL believes the widespread hydrothermal alteration and copper mineralization observed in the exposed quartz-carbonate veins originated from hidden volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralization that remobilized along later structures.

Previous work, carried out in the mid-1960s by Mokta Canada, consisted of 15 short diamond drill holes, two of which intersected semi-massive pyrite bodies up to 5 metres thick.

Prior to its drill program, KRL identified a contact between hydrothermally altered rhyolite and altered basalt, which extends for 1,500 metres and is up to 200 metres wide. The poorly exposed contact zone is 400 metres

east of where Mokta drilled its holes.

In the recent program, holes 1 and 2 were designed to test portions of this contact zone. Hole 2 was drilled towards the north at an angle of minus 51 and was terminated at a depth of 401 metres. Hole 1 was collared 300 metres northeast of hole 2 and drilled towards the south at minus 51; it was terminated at a depth of 466 metres.

The two holes identified three pyrite-rich bodies over a strike length of 200 metres and at a vertical depth of 300 metres. The contact zone remains open in all directions.

KRL’s objective is to find a base metal zone within this sulphide system.

The junior will carry out a second phase of exploration in order to define more drill targets. The program will include geological mapping and ground geophysics, as well as soil and rock geochemistry and mechanical stripping.