Approximately 10,000m of drilling is planned for 2023.
Figure 1: Drilling during 2022 at the 2750N Zone, Storm Copper Project. The upcoming drilling will build on the outstanding 2022 results and aim to define maiden copper resources at Storm.
RESOURCE DEFINITION AND EXPANSION
Four main zones of mineralization have been identified to date (Figure 2 & 3). Drilling during 2022 has highlighted the continuity of the copper rich zones, and the near-surface mineralization remains a focus for resource drilling due to its high grades, shallow nature and potential to provide a significant resource base as the basis for an initial low-cost, open-pit mining operation.
The areas of immediate interest are the 2750N, 2200N and 4100N Zones. Over 30 drill holes are initially planned, with hole depths between 50-150m due to the shallow nature of mineralization.
Moving loop electromagnetics (MLEM) will be used follow-up on 11 shallow, high-priority EM conductors that were identified by the fixed loop electromagnetic (FLEM) survey completed by the Company during the 2021 field season. Some of these anomalies are coincident with outcropping high-grade copper occurrences and remain untested.
It is anticipated that EM will outline the zones with stronger, more massive mineralization to assist in prioritizing the resource definition drilling.