Vancouver, B.C., August 1, 2023 – Canada One Mining Corp. (“Canada One” or the “Company”) (TSXV: CONE) is pleased to provide an exploration update on its 2023 program.
Milestones
- The Company has focussed its 2023 Exploration on its 100% owned Copper Dome Project located south of Princeton, BC and contiguous to the producing Copper Mountain Mine recently purchased for US$439M and now operated by Hudbay Minerals Inc.
- A comprehensive drill permit has recently been submitted to the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation (the “Ministry”), which includes allowance for geochemical and geophysical surveys in addition to diamond drilling. The Company anticipates a first review of the drill permit application by the Ministry to be completed by September of this year with the potential of a granted permit in time for a fall drilling program.
- As part of the permitting process, the Company has engaged consultation with numerous groups, including First Nations.
- The exploration team has completed a Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) soil geochemical survey over two previously identified zones of interest, the Friday Creek and Road Haul zones, and one new zone of interest, the Boundary Road zone. All samples have been submitted to SGS Labs.
- A detailed compilation of recent geophysical and past drilling programs into one cohesive data package is ongoing. This will allow for comprehensive geological review in three dimensions of all past work and surveys performed.
Project Highlights
- Copper Dome’s northern border to located 1.5kms south of the Copper Mountain Mine open pit deposits, which hosts a Proven and Probable Mineral Reserve of 702 Mt of 0.24% Cu (cumtn.com)
- The Project lies within the lower portion of the Quesnel Trough porphyry belt, a well-established mining district. The belt extends north from the Copper Mountain Mine, through the Elk, Brenda, Craigmont, Highland Valley, and New Afton mines
- Previous drilling has confirmed the presence of high-grade copper associated with northeast running geological structures similar to those seen at the Copper Mountain Mine
- Past exploration has identified the presence of palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt) and gold (Au) mineralization on the Property
- Multiple zones of mineralization have been discovered on the Property to date
- Excellent infrastructure provides year-round access with low-cost exploration and low jurisdictional risk
- Past exploration includes, airborne magnetics flown over the entire Project, 51km of induced polarization (IP) surveyed over areas of interest, Airborne Magnetics and electro-magnetics (EM) surveyed over half of the Project area, 2,253 soil and 378 rock samples collected, over 8900m of diamond drilling and over 1km of trenching
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Copper Mountain Mine
The Copper Mountain Mine, which is contiguous to the north of Copper Dome, is a conventional open pit, truck and shovel operation. The mine has a 45,000 tonnes per day plant that utilizes a conventional crushing, grinding and flotation circuit to produce copper concentrates with gold and silver credits. A new life of mine plan to expand the mill to 65,000 tonnes per day, further increases average annual production to 138 million pounds of copper equivalent and reduces all-in costs to US$1.76 per pound of copper over the first 20 years of a 32-year mine life. The 65,000 tonnes per day mill expansion, including the integration of New Ingerbelle, brings Copper Mountain Mine’s after-tax NPV at an 8% discount to US$1.245 billion (see Life of Mine Plan Expansion Study Technical Report, Copper Mountain Mining Corporation, Sept. 2022). Further potential exists through the upgrading of Mineral Resources to Mineral Reserves and further exploration to continue to extend the mine life and add value.
The Company cautions the discoveries and observations on properties in proximity to the Company’s properties are not necessarily indicative of the presence of similar mineralization or geology on the Company’s properties.
Qualified Person
The technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed by Freeman Smith, P.Geo, a Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101.
For further information, interested parties are encouraged to visit the Company’s profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or contact the Company at info@evolvemgmt.net.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of
CANADA ONE MINING CORP.
Peter Berdusco
President and Chief Executive Officer
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