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ArcWest Exploration Inc. Mobilizes Crew to Teeta Creek Porphyry Copper Project
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 7, 2019) - ArcWest Exploration Inc. (TSXV: ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"ArcWest Exploration Inc. Mobilizes Crew to Teeta Creek Porphyry Copper ProjectVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 7, 2019) - ArcWest Exploration Inc. (TSXV: AWX) (\"ArcWest\") is pleased to announce the commencement of 2019 field activities with the mobilization of a crew headed by Vice President Exploration J.W. Kyba for a geological and geochemical program on the Teeta Creek Copper-Molybdenum-Gold-Silver (Cu-Mo-Au-Ag) Porphyry Project, northern Vancouver Island, B.C. The project is located 23 km south of BHP-Billiton's past producing Island Copper porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold mine, and approximately 40 km south of NorthIsle Copper and Gold Inc.'s advanced stage Hushamu porphyry copper-gold project, part of which is currently being explored under an earn-in agreement with Freeport McMoRan. Fieldwork at Teeta Creek is scheduled to begin during the week of May 5.The Teeta Creek Project was recently expanded by staking and now covers an area totaling 2472 hectares. The road accessible project is located on the west side of Neuroutsos Inlet on northern Vancouver Island, about 5 km west of Port Alice and 35 kilometers southwest of Port McNeil. Porphyry copper mineralization at Teeta Creek was explored between 1967 and 1976 by Newmont, Cities Service Mineral Corp. and others. Eleven diamond drill holes completed during this period outlined a 950 by 500 meter zone of porphyry copper mineralization straddling Teeta Creek, open in all directions. Drill intercepts included 0.35% Cu over 67.1 meters in S75-1, and 0.36% Cu over 36.5 meters in S68-3, with multiple intersections in every drill hole. In recent years a developing road network on the west side of Neuroutsos Inlet has provided new rock exposures that greatly enhance the footprint and prospectivity of the Teeta Creek porphyry target. Work by Seven Devils Exploration in 2016 highlighted the presence of broad zones of intensely altered porphyry dykes, multistage breccias and porphyry Cu-Mo veins over 700 meters north of and 200 meters elevation above the zone of historical drilling. The overall dimensions of the porphyry system outlined by the new exposures is at least 1.8 by 1.2 kilometers and is open to the north and south. Rock samples from the new exposures returned up to 0.473% Cu and 0.031% Mo. In addition, newly identified, porphyry hosted epithermal minera...