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ArcWest Exploration (TSXV: AWX) announced that its field team discovered a previously unknown zone of polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization on its 34,764-hectare Todd Creek project, located 30 kilometres northeast of Stewart in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle.
In a press release, ArcWest said the newly discovered VMS West zone sits about 400
ArcWest reports that the VMS Zones are underlain by Hazelton Group mafic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks and marine sedimentary rocks
According to ArcWest, sampling of the VMS West Zone demonstrated significantly higher gold grades than previously sampled at VMS East, including grab samples up to 2.05 grams per tonne Au and 1.21% copper.
The company also reported that additional 2019 sampling at VMS East demonstrated an overall strike length of over 900 metres, with strongly elevated silver, lead, and zinc values.
“Our 2019 mapping and sampling program at the Todd Creek VMS Zone continues to expand the size and potential of this very significant and untested massive sulfide discovery,” ArcWest’s president Tyler Ruks said in the media brief. “With the discovery of the copper and gold enriched VMS West Zone we have defined a useful metal zonation which represents a significant exploration vector in VMS systems. Together with the numerous gossans extending along the east side of Todd Creek to the Smokin Zone 10 kilometers to the north, this extensive area of prospective upper Hazelton Group stratigraphy represents a new and virtually unexplored suite of VMS targets in the Golden Triangle.”
