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Aston Bay and American West Metals Announce Extensive Strike of Copper Gossans Discovered in Regional Exploration at the Storm Project, Nunavut, Canada
High-priority regional targets identified as ongoing drilling continues to intersect copper sulfi...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Aston Bay and American West Metals Announce Extensive Strike of Copper Gossans Discovered in Regional Exploration at the Storm Project, Nunavut, Canada High-priority regional targets identified as ongoing drilling continues to intersect copper sulfides at StormHighlights:Extensive copper gossans and outcrop discovered along 8km of strike. A large mapping and sampling program aimed to follow up the preliminary MMT survey results in the Tornado area has discovered extensive visual copper in outcrop, including:Extensive chalcocite and malachite in outcrop have been mapped along the interpreted major fault network, with chalcocite (copper sulfide) confirmed by portable XRFRC drilling planned to test a number of the fault-related copper occurrences and stratigraphic targets at Tornado in the coming daysDiamond drilling has intersected thick intervals of visual copper sulfides. 8 diamond drill holes (for a total of 1,786m) are now complete with thick intervals of visual copper sulfides intersected, including;PFS-001 was drilled into the southern margin of the Cyclone Deposit and intersected a combined total of 43 metres (\"m\") of chalcocite and chalcopyrite mineralization, including visual semi-massive sulfidesPFS-002 was drilled into the northern margin of the Cyclone Deposit and intersected approximately 49.5m combined total of chalcocite and chalcopyrite mineralization, including visual semi-massive sulfidesReverse-Circulation (RC) drilling continuing: 21 RC drill holes completed to date (for a total of 3,194m), including;12 holes completed at the Thunder, Lightning Ridge, Cirrus, Cyclone and Corona Deposits for resource category upgrade and expansion purposes2 holes testing resource extensions to the south of the Cyclone Deposit7 exploration holes completed in The Gap, Cyclone West, Squall and Hailstorm areasProject financing agreement finalized: Ocean Partners Holdings Ltd. to provide debt finance for up to 80% of initial capital for the development of Storm TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / July 24, 2025 / Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSXV:BAY)(OTCQB:ATBHF) (\"Aston Bay\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide an update on exploration activities at the Storm Copper Project (\"Storm\" or the \"Project\") on Somerset Island, Nunavut. American West Metals Limited (\"American West\"), the Project operator, is conducting the exploratio...