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ArcWest Announces Results From 2025 Drilling of the Todd Creek Project
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 16, 2026) - ArcWest Exploration Inc. (TSXV: AWX) ("ArcWest") announces results from a drill program funded by Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada Inc. ("Freeport"), as per the March 2023 Todd Creek Earn-In Agreement, on its wholly owned Todd Creek Copper ("Cu") - Gold ("Au") Project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. ArcWest's 100% owned, 21,700-hectare Todd Creek Cu-Au project adjoins Newmont Corporation's Brucejack Gold Mine...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 16, 2026) - ArcWest Exploration Inc. (TSXV: AWX) ("ArcWest") announces results from a drill program funded by Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada Inc. ("Freeport"), as per the March 2023 Todd Creek Earn-In Agreement, on its wholly owned Todd Creek Copper ("Cu") - Gold ("Au") Project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. ArcWest's 100% owned, 21,700-hectare Todd Creek Cu-Au project adjoins Newmont Corporation's Brucejack Gold Mine property, one of the highest-grade operating gold mines in the world, and is located approximately 40 kilometres ("km") southeast of Seabridge Gold's KSM-Iron Cap Cu-Au deposits, which is one of the largest Au-Cu concentrations in North America (Fig. 1).","length":815,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"A total of 4,614 metres ("m") of drilling in nine widely spaced drill holes was completed on the Todd Creek project in 2025 (Fig. 2). Funding for the program was 100% provided by Freeport as part of the March 2023 Todd Creek Earn-In Agreement, by which Freeport may earn a 51% interest in the Todd Creek project by spending C$20M over a five-year period and making staged cash payments to ArcWest.","length":407,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"A link to the updated Todd Creek technical presentation is here.","length":64,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"During the 2025 season, the 13 km long Todd Creek Alteration Corridor ("TCAC") was tested with 9 diamond drill holes (4,614 m) (Fig. 2) marking the first drill program completed on the project since commencement of the March 2023 Todd Creek Earn-In Agreement with Freeport. It comprised a reconnaissance-scale drill program across a district-scale alteration system. Five widely separated Cu-Au target areas were tested-Francisco Zone (1 hole, 393 m), South Zone (1 hole, 498 m), Yellow Bowl (1 hole, 599 m), Ice Creek/Fall Creek (4 holes, 1,899 m), and Orange Mountain (2 holes, 1,193 m). Copper-gold mineralization with corresponding strongly anomalous arsenic ("As"), antimony ("Sb"), bismuth ("Bi") and tellurium ("Te") was intersected in multiple target areas, including zones exhibiting veining styles commonly associated with porphyry systems, supporting the p...