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Coast Copper Advances Modelling of its Copper Kettle Project, Northern Vancouver Island
VANCOUVER, BC, May 7, 2026 /CNW/ - Coast Copper Corp. ("Coast Copper" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has provided a comprehensive, digitized
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, BC, May 7, 2026 /CNW/ - Coast Copper Corp. (\"Coast Copper\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has provided a comprehensive, digitized dataset for its 100%-owned Copper Kettle Project, located on Northern Vancouver Island (Figure 1) to Moose Mountain Technical Services (\"MMTS\") for detailed three-dimensional geological modelling and interpretation. The Copper Kettle Project covers more than 5,000 hectares of mineral claims and forms part of a cluster of porphyry copper-molybdenum and gold systems (the \"Island Cluster), which includes Northisle Copper and Gold Inc.'s (\"Northisle\") North Island Project1 and other past-producing and advanced-stage assets. The region is increasingly recognized for its potential to host large-scale critical mineral resources, particularly copper, which is essential for electrification and energy transition initiatives. Recent support from the Government of British Columbia for the advancement of Northisle's project underscores the strategic importance of this district and highlights a favorable policy environment for the responsible development of critical minerals (Figure 2). \"The potential scale and continuity of mineralization at the NW Zone, which forms only about 10% of the area of the Copper Kettle Project, has exceeded our initial expectations,\" said Adam Travis, CEO of Coast Copper. \"Historical work points to a classic and extensive copper-molybdenum skarn system overlying a porphyry system. With modelling now underway and additional targets emerging from our geophysical programs, we believe the project is well positioned for the definition of robust drill targets in the near term.\" The Company's review of historical exploration data has identified continuity of copper-molybdenum mineralization over an approximate 1,800 metre strike length, consistent with characteristics of a bulk-tonnage porphyry and skarn system. Historical drilling, including programs conducted by BHP between 1983 and 1989, appear to have outlined a laterally and in many cases open to depth extensive mineralized system (Figure 3). The dataset provided to MMTS comprises approximately 10,000 metres of historical drilling (diamond and percussion), associated assay data, surface geological and geochemical information, and results from an AMT geophysical survey completed by Coast Copp...