Troymin drills Hawk Ridge project

Calgary-based Troymin Resources (TYR-M) has initiated a sizable drill program at the Hawk Ridge copper-Nickel project in northern Quebec.

The company has budgeted $1.5 million for 3,500 metres of drilling this year. The program follows an extensive geological and geophysical evaluation conducted over the past few months, which identified five target areas for drilling.

Drilling has commenced on the Fold zone to evaluate a geophysical conductor coincident with several surface showings of disseminated to semi-Massive sulphides in the base of a peridotite sill. The mineralization is visible over a 150-Metre strike length in the northernmost showing. Troymin reports that random grab samples have yielded up to 11.2% copper and 1.85% nickel.

Troymin will be drill-Testing the downdip potential of the Hopes Advance 1N and Gamma massive sulphide zones discovered last year.

The company will also test drill targets outlined by airborne and ground ground geophysics and evaluate prospective areas targeted on the basis of ore deposit models. These areas include an ultramafic breccia complex in the Schindler area and the iron formation underlying several peridotite sills.

Troymin’s preliminary estimate of the mineral resource at Hawk Ridge includes 110,000 tons grading 2.5% copper and 0.9% nickel in the Hopes Advance 1N zone, 250,000 tons of 2.4% copper and 0.9% nickel in the Gamma zone, and 187,000 tons of 2.14% copper and 0.95% nickel in the Schindler HG zone.