Heath Merge
Ready for drilling in 2024
The Heath-Merge copper target is permitted for drilling in 2024. It presents an exciting new mineralisation model to test - Porphyry Copper mineralisation in association with an Appinite intrusive suite.
This is a high-ranking target due to diorite and layered diorite with K-feldspar-sericite-magnetite alteration, multiple rock samples >1000 ppm Cu, anomalous soils >10x crustal abundance Cu, high V/Sc:Sc ratios at the Heath #3 outcrop, and magnetic highs and moderate relative conductivity. The target is a combination of the Heath #1, Heath East, and Heath #3 targets, with a total area of 1.2 km2. This target is open to the north and the south, with a potential size of ~4 km2, due to proximal anomalous soils, geophysics, and dioritic rocks.
Three recommended drilling sites are shown in the adjoining map, together with the location of IP lines surveyed during 2023. These sites are permited for drilling in 2024.
The IP line chargeability results are shown below.
The white lozenze shape is the size of the block cave in the New Afton mine - provided as an example of a target size and shape.
Geochemistry
Soils are highly anomalous in copper
Heath Merge displays highly anomalous copper in soils over an area of approximately 2km by 2km, similar to the size of the anomalous copper in soils footprint over the Mt Milligan deposit (See: "A Geo-Exploration Atlas of the Mt Milligan Porphyry Copper-Gold District", a 139Mb pdf report availalable here from Geoscience BC.).
Soil copper values are displayed in the online interactive map of the property availabe here. An Excel file with all project soil, silt and rock assay results suitable for import into a GIS is available from the Reports and Data page of this website.
The white lozenze shape is the size of the block cave in the New Afton mine - provided as an example of a target size and shape.
Chargeability
DIAS Geophysics 2023 Results
Chargeability measured on the two IP lines shown above plotted using a linear colour scale max 20 mV/V.
Topo profiles at -350 and -500 m below topo are shown. When viewing the data using a linear scale the DOI doesn’t appear as deep as the histogram (equal area) scale previously.
The southern line is shown on the left of the divider and the northern line on the right.
Magnetics
3D Inversion models are available for download and evaluation
The adjoining plan shows TMI_RTP at surface.
The white lozenze shape is the size of the block cave in the New Afton mine - provided as an example of a target size and shape.
Resistivity
3D Inversion models are available for download and evaluation
The adjoining plan shows resistivity at the 700m amsl elevation.
The white lozenze shape is the size of the block cave in the New Afton mine - provided as an example of a target size and shape.
Petrology
Detailed petrographic descriptions of samples from across the property are available.
Redton's petrographic and spectral work is summarised in a 2022 presentation and includes a section on Heath. The presentation is available on the Reports and Data page.
Other Aspects
Good road access
Road access to the property is good, with year-round logging activity, some of it on the property.
Early stage drilling will likely require helicopter support. Access for more advanced stage drilling would likely be by using the now overgrown track used by Teck to haul in their drill in 1990.
The white lozenze shape is the size of the block cave in the New Afton mine - provided as an example of a target size and shape.
