Pacific Empire Receives 3-Year Permit to Drill High-Priority Trident Copper-Gold Targets
Pacific Empire Receives 3-Year Permit to Drill High-Priority Trident Copper-Gold
Targets
August 19, 2025 – Vancouver, B.C., Canada – Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. (TSXV: PEMC) (“Pacific Empire”,
“PEMC” or the “Company”), a British Columbia copper-gold explorer, is pleased to announce that it has received
a multi -year Mines Act Permit authorizing exploration activities at its 100% -owned Trident property in north -
central British Columbia.
Permit details: Mines Act Permit MX-100000345, issued by the Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals is valid
until September 30, 2028, and authorizes:
• Construction of a camp and staging area
• Surface diamond drilling from 20 permitted drill sites
• Exploration access and construction or modification of access roads
• Fuel storage
The permit includes comprehensive environmental, cultural heritage, and reclamation requirements, including the
protection of watercourses, caribou -interaction mitigation measures for work above 1 ,100 m, progressive
reclamation, a s well as invasive species control. These commitments align with Pacific Empire’s approach to
responsible exploration and early-stage project stewardship.
Brad Peters, President and CEO of Pacific Empire, commented, “Securing this multi-year exploration permit is a
significant milestone for Pacific Empire and clears the way for our inaugural diamond drilling program at Trident
this September. This is the first time in over 50 years that this target area will be tested, despite extensive historical
work in the region. With road access now in place and drill sites approved, we are in an excellent position to
advance this gold-enriched copper porphyry project.”
The Trident property lies within the prolific Quesnel Terrane, immediately south of the Hogem Plutonic Suite
contact with volcanic rocks of the Chuchi Lake Succession — a geologic setting known to host several producing
and past-producing copper-gold porphyry deposits in British Columbia. Historical work on the property includes
soil geochemistry, geophysics, and diamond drilling that confirmed widespread copper-gold mineralization but left
the main target area untested due to historic access challenges.
Pacific Empire’s 2025 program will be the first modern drill campaign to directly test this high -priority target,
following recent re -assay results collected from historical drill core and the acquisition of new high -resolution
LIDAR data that will aid in more accurate drill collar placement.
Other Matters
The latest President’s Newsletter , along with updated maps and Corporate Presentation, are now available at
www.pemcorp.ca.
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Figure 1 - Multi-Year Area-Based Permit Work Area
Trident Project: Priority Target Areas
The Trident Project is currently the primary focus for Pacific Empire. The main exploration target is a gold-enriched
copper porphyry system, supported by robust copper, gold, and zinc soil geochemistry and multiple coincident
geophysical anomalies.
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Geochemical Support:
• Copper-in-soil anomalies with values up to 5,213 ppm Cu define a 2 km (N–S) by 4 km (NW–SE) zone
(Figures 2 & 3).
• The anomaly lies on a significant slope, with drilling to date not yet testing the upslope source area.
• Gold-in-soil anomalies up to 591 ppb Au characterize a 2 km by 1.5 km zone overlapping the copper
anomaly (Figures 2 & 4).
• A strong distal zinc anomaly may be indicative of an outer halo of a robust copper-gold porphyry system.
Geophysical Support:
The porphyry target aligns with (Figure 2):
• An airborne resistivity high
• A chargeability anomaly from ground IP
• A resistivity high from ground IP
• A strong apparent resistivity anomaly from airborne Mobile Magnetotelluric (MT) data
Historical and Future Drilling:
• South of the main target, historical drilling (1970s, 2007) intercepted mineralized hornblende -feldspar
monzonite porphyry dikes dipping north.
• Previous drilling was oriented north-to-south, away from the interpreted main porphyry zone.
• Future drilling will be oriented south -to-north from permitted sites located north of historical hole collars
to directly target the inferred core of the system.
Breccia Targets:
• Eastern Breccia Target: Strong conductivity anomaly, float samples yielding up to 3.3% Cu, 3.6 g/t Au,
56.6 g/t Ag; barite vein sample returned 6.0% Cu, 6.0% Zn, 1.5 g/t Au, 5.0 g/t Ag.
• Western Breccia Target: A robust copper-in-soil anomaly coincident with a significant conductivity high.
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Figure 2 - Compilation of geochemical and IP geophysical data
with 2025 drill targets at Trident
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Figure 3 - COPPER Soil Geochemistry
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Figure 4 - GOLD Soil Geochemistry
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Pinnacle Project: Emerging Targets
The Pinnacle property, located immediately west of Trident, has two primary target areas:
Aplite Creek North Target:
• Copper mineralization in outcrop is associated with known aplite dikes and quartz veining.
• Historical drilling (AH90-01) returned 6.0 m grading 6.4 g/t Au at Aplite Creek.
• Supported by a radiometric Th/K low (K/Th high), indicative of potassic alteration.
• Strong IP chargeability responses along target margins, coincident with copper-in-soil anomalies.
South Pinnacle Target:
• Copper-in-soil anomaly coincident with geophysical targets.
• Ovate magnetic and resistivity anomalies from 2007 Fugro airborne mag-EM survey.
• IP chargeability and resistivity highs from 2014 ground IP survey.
• Strong IP chargeability response along target margins, aligned with copper-in-soil anomalies.
Figure 5 – Exploration targets at Pinnacle with recent forestry cutblocks and new roads
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Alluvial Gold in the Klawli River
The Klawli River, which divides the Trident and Pinnacle properties, has demonstrated proximal near surface gold
occurrence potential. Panning in the river has yielded significant placer gold ranging from fine flour gold to flakes
measuring approximately 1 mm thick and 2 –3 mm in diameter. The presence of placer gold in the Klawli River
suggests nearby hard -rock gold source (s) and further underscor es the potential for additional discoveries in the
region.
Figure 6 – Gold from the Klawli River.
Did it come from Pinnacle or Trident or both?