BRITISH COLUMBIA –
Romios Gold Resources announced that its exploration team started fieldwork on its Andrei claim block, the Royce/Porc property and the nearby JW and Trek porphyry copper projects in the Golden Triangle in the northwestern part of the province.
In a media statement, Romios said that these claims cover a number of promising copper-gold porphyry and VMS prospects, as well as occurrences of high grade base metal boulders for which no source has been found.
The Toronto-based miner’s properties comprise surface and subsurface mineralization for over 50 km. Including options, this equates to an aggregate total of 80,000 hectares.
The Trek porphyry copper occurrence is 15 km southeast of the 787-million-tonne Galore Creek porphyry deposit.
The northern Trek claims cover a partially drill defined porphyry copper-gold zone within about 3 kilometres of the proposed Galore Creek mill site. According to Romios, the southern portion of the claims cover several copper-gold showings over a 2 x 2 km area that are thought to be part of a single large system. “The 2019 work here will focus on defining the full extent of this system and laying out a drill program to test the core area,” the media statement reads.
The company’s JW prospect, on the other hand, is located 6 km northwest of Galore Creek and covers a partially exposed porphyry style alteration system centred on a granodiorite intrusion believed to be about 1 x 1.3 km in area.
“High grade gold veins surround the perimeter of this intrusion and both a gold-bearing pyrite alteration zone and copper-bearing propylitic alteration zone were discovered in outcrop during a brief visit in 2018. This prospect will be mapped in detail to define the extent and core of the alteration and mineralization in order to determine drill targets,” the brief states.
Finally, the Andrei claims cover a number of base metal prospects exhibiting characteristics volcanogenic massive sulphide systems.
“Given the significant glacial retreat since Romios last explored these claims, it is expected that the source of the mineralized boulders and the extent and potential of the outcropping VMS zones may be much better outlined by the upcoming work,” the firm’s release indicates.
This story first appeared on www.Mining.com.
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