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Pacific Empire Receives 3-Year Permit to Drill High-Priority Trident Copper-Gold Targets
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 19, 2025) - Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Pacific Empire Receives 3-Year Permit to Drill High-Priority Trident Copper-Gold TargetsVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 19, 2025) - Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. (TSXV: PEMC) (\"Pacific Empire\", \"PEMC\" or the \"Company\"), a British Columbia copper-gold explorer, is pleased to announce that it has received a multi-year Mines Act Permit authorizing exploration activities at its 100%-owned Trident property in north-central British Columbia.Permit details: Mines Act Permit MX-100000345, issued by the Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals is valid until September 30, 2028, and authorizes:Construction of a camp and staging areaSurface diamond drilling from 20 permitted drill sitesExploration access and construction or modification of access roadsFuel storage The permit includes comprehensive environmental, cultural heritage, and reclamation requirements, including the protection of watercourses, caribou-interaction mitigation measures for work above 1,100 m, progressive reclamation, as well as invasive species control. These commitments align with Pacific Empire's approach to responsible exploration and early-stage project stewardship.Brad Peters, President and CEO of Pacific Empire, commented, \"Securing this multi-year exploration permit is a significant milestone for Pacific Empire and clears the way for our inaugural diamond drilling program at Trident this September. This is the first time in over 50 years that this target area will be tested, despite extensive historical work in the region. With road access now in place and drill sites approved, we are in an excellent position to advance this gold-enriched copper porphyry project.\"The Trident property lies within the prolific Quesnel Terrane, immediately south of the Hogem Plutonic Suite contact with volcanic rocks of the Chuchi Lake Succession - a geologic setting known to host several producing and past-producing copper-gold porphyry deposits in British Columbia. Historical work on the property includes soil geochemistry, geophysics, and diamond drilling that confirmed widespread copper-gold mineralization but left the main target area untested due to historic access challenges.Pacific Empire's 2025 program will be the first modern drill campaign to directly test this high-priority target, following recent re-assay results collected from historica...