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Canyon Copper Closes Option Agreement to Acquire Munro Warden Copper Nickel Cobalt Property
Vancouver, British Columbia (FSCwire) - Canyon Copper Corp. ("Canyon") (TSX-V: CNC) is pleased to announce that the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”) has ac
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[{"type":"text","content":"Vancouver, British Columbia (FSCwire) - Canyon Copper Corp. (\"Canyon\") (TSX-V: CNC) is pleased to announce that the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”) has accepted the option agreement (\"Option Agreement\") with . a private company, whereby Canyon can earn up to a 100% interest in the Munro Warden Copper Nickel Cobalt Property (the “Property” or “Munro Warden”). Canyon will now pay $5,000 and issue 100,000 common shares to 2333382 Ontario Inc. The future obligations under the option agreement are outlined in Canyon’s news release of July 19, 2017. The Munro Warden property is located approximately 85 kilometres east of Timmins, Ontario and 55 kilometres north of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The property consisting of 9 mining leases and 6 mineral claims totalling 717 hectares located in the eastern part of the Kidd-Munro assemblage of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The Abitibi greenstone belt is one of the largest, best-preserved, and mineral-rich greenstone belts in the world. The Kidd-Munro sequence hosts a number of mineral deposits, including the world-class Kidd Creek volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, the Dundonald and Alexo komatiitic nickel deposits and several major lode gold deposits. In Munro Township, copper and zinc bearing massive sulphides have been mined at the Potter Mine and the Potter-Doal Mine, gold at the Croesus Mine and asbestos at the Munro Mine. Background information from Ontario Mineral Deposit Inventory database Deposit: MDI42A09NE00098: Mineralization Comments “18-Feb-97 (C Salo) - Disseminated, blebby, veinlet controlled, and massive magnetite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite mineralization occurs within the variably sheared and serpentinized peridotitic base of the discordant ultramafic body which hosts the serpentine industrial filler mineralization of the Hedman Mine (described in the report for the Hedman Mine). This sulfide mineralization is reported (assessment files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kirkland Lake) to assay as much as 1.7% of nickel, 1.77% of copper, and 0.14% of cobalt where it has been sampled via Dyman Prospecting Syndicate diamond drilling in 1956 (drill hole nos. B-13 through B-19 and B-21) and from surface pits along a strike length of 2,000 feet.” Deposit: MDI42A09SE00160: Mineralization Comments “18-Feb-97 (C Salo) - Diamond drilling on or near claim no. 53321 (the southea...