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Ridgeline Minerals Acquires Extensive Historical Database for the Big Blue Project, Nevada
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 24, 2023) - Ridgeline Minerals Corp. (TSXV:...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Ridgeline Minerals Acquires Extensive Historical Database for the Big Blue Project, NevadaVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 24, 2023) - Ridgeline Minerals Corp. (TSXV: RDG) (OTCQB: RDGMF) (FSE: 0GC0) (\"Ridgeline\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce it has acquired, at no cost to the Company, an extensive historical exploration database for the Big Blue project (\"Big Blue\" or \"Project\") from an undisclosed third-party. Big Blue is a porphyry-CRD, copper (\"Cu\") - gold (\"Au\") - silver (\"Ag\") - lead (\"Pb\") - zinc (\"Zn\") exploration prospect in Elko County, Nevada, which includes the past producing high-grade copper Delker Mine (See February 9, 2023 press release HERE). The newly acquired data is a modern geologic database consisting of detailed mapping, surface geochemistry, drill data and multiple generations of surface and airborne geophysics. The data has been thoroughly validated and incorporated into the Big Blue geologic model and is expected to save significant time and exploration capital to advance the Project to a maiden drill program in 2024. A detailed summary of the historical database is highlighted below.Mike Harp, Ridgeline's Vice President, Exploration commented, \"The acquisition of this historical dataset is a major step forward for the geologic model at Big Blue and significantly accelerates the exploration process for our team. The geophysical surveys in particular highlight multiple potential targets, including porphyry targets and a well-defined, northeast trending structural corridor that extends between the historical Delker copper-gold Mine and Reyna Silver's Medicine Springs CRD project located on our southwestern boundary. This untested structural trend represents a highly prospective, six-kilometer-long target area that is bracketed on both ends by historical copper and base metal mines. The database also suggests that the limited historical drilling that was conducted on the project did not drill deep enough to adequately test geophysical anomalies located directly beneath multi-percent copper mineralization that was historically mined from the Delker Mine and Skarn Hill adit. Our team plans on integrating and reinterpreting the raw data sets to continue building out the geologic mode with the goal of initiating a maiden drill campaign in 2024.\"Historical...