Pacific Empire Presents Final Results of Drill Target Generation at Trident
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Pacific Empire Presents Final Results of Drill Target
Generation at Trident
November 25, 2024 – Vancouver, BC, 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 finalized drill targets and a corresponding diamond drilling strategy at its flagship Trident
property, located 50 km west of Centerra Golds Mt. Milligan Mine.
Highlights
• The updated drill program proposes a initial fence of 3 -5 drill holes moving from south to north
across the target area in addition to one hole testing a potential high grade breccia pipe.
• Updated targeting incorporates the orientation of regional stratigraphy which dips roughly 20o to the
south and suggests that the orientation of the main porphyry target should dip 70o to the north.
• Based on this interpretation the orientation of drill holes for the upcoming drill program should be
dipping 70o to the north, which allows the target to be tested most effectively.
“In designing and further refining the strategy for the upcoming drill program at Trident, it is critical to
understand the orientation of a potential porphyry ore body to maximize the potential for success of our
initial diamond drill program at Trident,” commented Brad Peters, President, CEO & Director of Pacific
Empire. “We now have a high degree of confidence that the potential porphyry target dips approximately
70 degrees to the north, and the implications from this interpretation allow us to locate future drill holes
and their respective orientations to best cover the target area for rapid success.”
Analysis of the regional stratigraphy in the area of the Trident and Pinnacle properties reveals that the
general orientation of rocks in the area dip gently to the south at an angle of approximately 20 degrees.
This has significant implications for identifying the location and orientation of the porphyry targets on
both the Trident and Pinnacle properties.
Analysis of historical drill core reveals the presence of mineralized porphyry dikes that are directly
responsible for the copper -gold mineralization encountered at Trident. The source and origin of these
mineralized porphyry dikes has yet remained elusive. All the historical drilling at Trident has focused
almost exclusively on the robust copper-gold soil geochemical anomaly that characterizes the property.
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Considering the target area and the area of historical exploration is on a gentle slope, it is reasonable to
assume that the source of the soil geochemical anomaly at Trident is upslope from the anomaly itself.
Pacific Empire believes that the area to the north of historical drilling is the most likely location for a
potential copper-gold porphyry discovery and is responsible for the robust geochemical anomaly as well
as the source of the observed mineralized porphyry dikes from historical drilling.
Figure 1 - Example of mineralized porphyry dikes within a 6 m interval grading 0.87%
copper (2007-2 from 74 - 80m)
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Figure 2 - Schematic representation of the Primary Target area in relation to historical
drilling and the geochemical anomaly with proposed drillhole locations.
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The copper and gold in soil geochemical anomalies at Trident were the first clue for Pacific Empire that
there was potential for a significant discovery at Trident. The copper anomaly extends roughly east-west
for approximately four kilometres and on average is one kilometer wide. In addition, there are a significant
number of samples that r un greater than 500 ppm copper with a maximum value of 5 ,213 ppm,
representing over half a percent copper in the soil. An important observation is that the best drilling which
is at an area referred to as the “A Zone” is on the southern margin of this geochemical anomaly and has a
very limited geochemical signature in the immediate area and downslope. This is however the location
where mineralized porphyry dikes were observed in drill core from the 2007 diamond drill campaign. The
orientation of these dikes is dipping to the north, again, suggesting the source of the mineralized porphyry
dikes is to the north.
Another important observation is the distribution of zinc in soil geochemistry. A common pattern for
copper porphyry hydrothermal systems is for the highest copper grades to occur closest to the
hydrothermal center, whereas the highest zinc values tend to occur outboard from the hydrothermal center.
Dr. Paul Johnston, Pacific Empire’s Senior Geologic Advisor commented, “In general, copper is
concentrated in the center and declines away from the center. Zinc remains soluble at lower temperatures
and can therefore be transported further from the hotter hydrothermal center. The thermal gradients in a
porphyry system do not have to be spherical in 3D or circular in plan. Many things, like permeable faults,
can disrupt the ideal pattern”.
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Figure 3 - Copper soil geochemistry in relation to the Primary Target.
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Figure 4 - Anomalous zinc soil values transported away from hydrothermal center
(volcanic rocks shown in green, intrusive rocks shown in brown).
The following ma p, (Figure 5) shows the location of the drill targets at a “Triple Point Junction” with
volcanic rocks to the north and intrusive rocks to the south. The targets are also at a location where two
types of intrusive rocks meet , the monzonite and syenite of the Hogem Intrusive Suite . An attractive
location for porphyry deposits is often found within intrusive rocks that are immediately adjacent to
volcanic rocks. An additional attractive targeting factor is a further contact such as, in this case, the contact
between different intrusive rocks. Such juxtapositions of contacts and rocks units have the potential to
facilitate fluid conduits that are critical for the formation mineralized hydrothermal systems.
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Figure 5 - Airborne Resistivity (56kHz) with geological units showing the location of the
Primary Target at a Triple Point Junction (note the thick black line represents the
boundary between volcanic rocks to the north and intrusive rocks to the south).
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It is very common for hydrothermal breccias to be intimately associated with and in close proximity to mineralized
hydrothermal systems. One of the more intriguing discoveries at Trident has been the recent observation of the
presence of very well mineralized hydrothermal breccia specimens. Although collected from subcrop, they suggest
a significantly mineralized breccia may exist in the primary target area.
Figure 6 – Property scale Gold soil geochemistry with location of Campbell Trench, A
Zone and 2007 Drilling