Libero Announces Initial Big Red Drill Program
Libero Announces Initial Big Red Drill Program
VANCOUVER, BC
,
June 15, 2020
/CNW/ -
Libero Copper
& Gold Corporation
(TSX-V: LBC)
(OTCQB: LBCMF) is pleased to announce the 2020 drill program on its Big Red property in the
Golden Triangle. All permits are in place and all supplier contracts have finalized. The surface
program has commenced, and the drill camp construction will commence on
July 3
which will take
several days with drilling commencing in July and continuing through August. The drill camp has
excellent infrastructure with a neighboring placer mine and both road access and a dedicated
airstrip.
Figure 1 (CNW Group/Libero Copper Corporation)
The surface program, which consists of additional geochemical sampling and mapping, will be used
to guide a 3,000 metre 16-hole drill program. This surface program will advance the 19 multi-
element geochemical anomalies identified in the 2019 program (
Figure 1
) and the high conductivity
targets identified by the recent ZTEM geophysical survey (news release dated
April 14, 2020
) in
order to identify additional high probability drill targets for the 2020 field season.
The drill program will commence in early July with camp construction followed by a program of 1,000
metres of track-mounted reverse circulation ("RC") reconnaissance drilling in 10 shallow holes at the
best targets. The RC work, which will not require drill pads, is intended to rapidly provide
subsurface confirmation of the high soil and rock values. Results will be used to better target an
initial round of core drilling, comprising of 2,000 metres in 6 holes. On-site XRF analysis will be
utilized to analyze rock chip samples and drill core for pathfinder elements to focus exploration in
real-time. Core drilling is planned for the month of August leaving time for compilation and
interpretation of results and implementation of a follow-up program in the early fall, should results
warrant. The summer 2020 exploration program at Big Red, now underway, has multiple
components presently anticipated to unfold as per the following tentative schedule depending on
snow melt at the higher elevation targets.
Work Program
Dates
Fly Camp Mobilization and Construction
June 12 - 14
Mapping & Rock Sampling (600 samples)
June 15 - July 15
Rock Sample Assay Results Expected
July 13 - August 3
Drill Camp Construction
July 3 - 14
Drill Pad Building
July 13 - August 6
RC Drilling (10 holes, 1,000m)
July 22 - August 6
Diamond Core Drilling (6 holes, 2,000m)
August 6 - September 3
RC Drilling Assay Results Expected
August 19 - 26
Follow Up on RC Assay Results if Warranted
August 20 - September 3
Diamond Core Drilling Assay Results Expected
September 3 - 25
Potential Phase 2 - Diamond Core Drilling
September - October
Previously Announced Results
Ridge is a gold target located to the south of the porphyry gold-copper targets at Big Red. Ridge
was identified as reporting numerous high-grade gold samples in
May 2019
when Libero undertook a
large compilation of historical data where location, description, and assay data for 1,714 historical
rock chip and 1,957 historical soil samples were digitized from 35 assessment reports for the area
dating back to 1963. The compilation provided geochemical coverage of the property never attained
by previous operators. Within the Ridge target individual float samples returned as high as 25 g/t Au
and historical rock chip samples grade up to 29 g/t Au (news release dated
May 27, 2019
). Surface
exploration work by Libero during the 2019 field season collected 892 surface samples (new release
dated
September 5, 2019
).
Specific focus will also be on the Poker and Terry targets. The Poker target includes rock chip
samples from 36 large angular quartz vein boulders up to two metres in diameter which returned
grades up to 252 g/t Au shed from a glacial valley that lies entirely within the claim block (
Figure 2
).
Rock chip samples from boulders are not necessarily representative of the hosted mineralization.
Terry is a new porphyry target discovered in 2019 with surface work following up on a magnetic
anomaly.
The technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by
Libero's Executive Vice President of Exploration,
Leo Hathaway P.Geo
., who is a Qualified Person
as defined under NI 43-101
About the Big Red Porphyry Gold-Copper Property
Big Red comprises 20 contiguous claims totalling 26,000 hectares in northwestern British Colombia,
45 kilometres southwest of
Telegraph Creek
along the Glenora Road. Big Red lies within the
Golden Triangle 70 kilometres north of Galore Creek and 100 kilometres west of
Red Chris
.
The Golden Triangle is a geological province of prodigious gold and copper mineralisation and host
to some of
Canada's
most famous mines, including Premier,
Red Chris
, Snip, Brucejack and
Eskay
Creek
. Within the Golden Triangle porphyry copper and gold, epithermal gold and silver and
volcanogenic massive sulfide styles of mineralisation have all been recognised. At Big Red all three
of these styles exist, indicating that a large mineralised system has been preserved from erosion.
The primary porphyry gold-copper targets are peripheral to a distinct large magnetic-high feature
and coincide with a radiometric potassium anomaly, copper, gold, silver and molybdenum anomalies
and a mapped Jurassic aged porphyry intrusion. Please see Libero's
flickr
site for photographs.
About
Libero Copper
& Gold
Libero holds a collection of porphyry deposits throughout the Americas in prolific but stable
jurisdictions. The portfolio includes both exploration properties such as Big Red, a new gold
discovery in the Golden Triangle,
Canada
, and high-quality deposits with significant resources but
without any fatal flaws or significant holding costs. The Tomichi copper deposit in
the United States
and the Mocoa copper deposit in
Colombia
, both contain large inferred mineral resources. In total,
the Mocoa and Tomichi properties contain 7.9 billion pounds of copper and 1.1 billion pounds of
molybdenum. These assets are being advanced by a highly disciplined and seasoned professional
team with successful track records of discovery, resource development, and permitting in the
Americas.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in
the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release. This news release includes forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties. All statements within, other than statements of historical fact, are to be considered
forward looking. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-
looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of
future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in forward-
looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in
forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes,
continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business
conditions and regulatory and administrative approvals, processes and filing requirements. There
can be no assurances that such statements will prove accurate and, therefore, readers are advised
to rely on their own evaluation of such uncertainties. We do not assume any obligation to update
any forward-looking statements.
SOURCE
Libero Copper Corporation
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Ian Slater, Chief Executive Officer, +1 604 638 2545,
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