Red Canyon Resources engaged Geotech to conduct an airborne ZTEM electromagnetic system survey of its Scraper Springs copper project in northern Nevada last month. The survey further interprets the subsurface alteration and geological architecture at the site.
“The ZTEM data will provide a three-dimensional image of the Scraper Springs project area. Our goal is to use the differences in the apparent electrical conductivity of the various lithologies to assist in mapping the subsurface at Scraper Springs to better define existing drill targets and identify new areas of interest,” said Wendell Zerb, chairman and CEO of Red Canyon Resources.
“ZTEM is being used to identify areas of electrically conductive sulphides potentially linked to mineralized porphyry intrusive centers and resistive bodies representative of intrusions. Finally, the infrastructure at Scraper Springs is excellent, adding considerable margin upside should future drilling outline an economic copper system.”
Scraper Springs hosts a 4- x 4-kilometer alteration footprint comparable in scale to some of the world’s largest copper deposits, noted Red Canyon. Volumetrically significant hypogene alunite and pyrophylilite alteration, together with late zunyite alteration in high-temperature outflow/feeder zones, indicate potential for Scraper Springs to host an upgraded potassic core (>1% Cu), as seen at the Resolution deposit in Arizona and the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia.
The Scraper Springs copper project covers 1,589 hectares and includes 190 unpatented claims.