little Pearson nugget from Sedar Kevin Killin, who delivered a report outlining potential drill targets.
In 2017, Company personnel prospected the Pearson claims and also the Mach 3 claim adjoining to the north. This work concentrated on two areas. The first was an area where extensive green copper stains were apparent in cliff faces, close to a large geophysical anomaly discovered in 2010 during an airborne survey. Malachite and magnetite bearing samples taken from float found directly below the cliff faces averaged 1.63% copper and >15% iron. The character of the rock and the grades suggest that Granduc- type Besshi mineralization occurs in the cliff faces. Various grab samples taken from other structures identified on the Pearson claims, mostly either quartz veins or diorite, ranged from trace to 8.57% copper, trace to 0.07% cobalt, trace to 16.7% zinc, trace to 29.2% lead, trace to 451 g/t silver, and trace to 12.7 g/t gold.
A diamond drilling program on the Pearson and adjoining Mach claims is presently in progress. This is following up on work done in 2017, including the discovery of a zone which contained multiple occurrences of malachite and azurite. Many vein samples were taken from carbonate altered areas found mostly within the malachite rich zone which ran trace to 7.06% copper, 0.2 to 321 g/t silver and 0.05 to 68.69 g/t gold (2.01 oz/ton gold).