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Golden Birch Resources Inc. Prepares for Initial Drilling at the Flagship Omu Copper-Gold Prospect, Keveri Project, Papua New Guinea
TIMMINS, ON / ACCESSWIRE / December 7, 2020 / Golden Birch Resources Inc. (CSE:GBRX) ("Golden Birch" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that preparations
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[{"type":"text","content":" TIMMINS, ON / ACCESSWIRE / December 7, 2020 / Golden Birch Resources Inc. (CSE:GBRX) (\"Golden Birch\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that preparations for the initial drill program at the flagship Omu copper-gold (\"Cu-Au\") prospect are nearing completion. Drilling at the Omu drill site of the Keveri Project, Papua New Guinea (\"PNG\"), is planned to begin in mid-December, 2020. Highlights: Drill targets defined (see figures 1, 2A and 2B); Drill pad has been prepared (see figure 3); Newly acquired CS 1000 drill rig expected to be delivered by helicopter to the Omu drill pad by 15th December (see figure 3); Upgrade of the Waki exploration camp is nearing completion; Drilling planned to commence immediately once drill rig has been assembled on site Alan Martin, CEO & President of Golden Birch states; \"We are very excited with our preparations for the initial drill program at our flagship Omu prospect. Over the next week we expect to mobilize our CS 1000 drill rig via helicopter to the drill site. We are hoping to begin drilling by mid-December. Our first holes will test the large Omu Main IP target and we look forward to reporting the results.\" Omu Prospect and Initial Drilling Program The Omu Prospect is one of the main targets associated with the Company's Keveri Project, located approximately 180 km south east of Port Moresby in the Abau District of the Central Province in PNG. The exploration licences straddle a major WNW trending regional structure, the Keveri Fault Zone, which is the southeastern extension of the major structures within the Papuan Mobile Fold Belt. These major structures are important in the emplacement of porphyry and porphyry related copper-gold deposits in PNG. The Company is focusing exploration activities on porphyry-style and porphyry-related Cu-Au mineralization related to mafic to intermediate composition porphyritic intrusive stocks proximal to the Keveri Fault. Exploration work completed to date by the Company at Omu Prospect includes: rock chip sampling of outcrop and rock float; geological mapping; soil sampling on a 100 metre (\"m\") x 100 m grid over a total area of approximately 2 kilometres (\"kms\") x 2 kms; 26 petrographic samples; 3D IP (induced polarization) survey over an area of approximately 1.5 kms x 1.5 kms. Soil sampling, geological mapping and geophysical surve...