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Sorrento Resources Expands Copper-Gold Lord Baron Project, Newfoundland
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 23, 2024) - Sorrento Resources Ltd. (CSE: SRS) (OTCQB: SRSLF) (the "Company" or "Sorrento") a Canadian explo
About this update from Sorrento Resources Ltd.
[{"type":"text","content":" Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 23, 2024) - Sorrento Resources Ltd. (CSE: SRS) (OTCQB: SRSLF) (the \"Company\" or \"Sorrento\") a Canadian exploration company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral projects in Atlantic Canada, is pleased to announce that it has staked an additional two mineral licenses covering 750 hectares (\"ha\") adjacent to its 100%-owned Lord Baron Copper-Gold Project (the \"Project\") in Newfoundland. As shown on Figure 1, the new licenses significantly grows the size of the Project to 6,400 ha. Highlights: The new licences significantly expand the total land package of the Project and further consolidates Sorrento Resources' strategic land position over the Springdale district. Majority of the new licences remain underexplored and provide opportunity for new grass roots discoveries. Five documented mineral occurrences on the newly acquired claims. Three Historic shafts. Two areas where minor amounts (<25tons) of massive sulphide ore was extracted. Figure 1: Map of the consolidated Lord Baron Project with key exploration targets and mineral occurrences. About the Lord Baron Project The Lord Baron Project is located on the Springdale peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador near the towns of Springdale, Little Bay, and Beachside. The region has a rich mining history and is host to a skilled workforce, several diamond drilling contractors, a NI-43-101 compliant assay lab, and mining equipment and parts suppliers. In addition, it is adjacent to deep water ports, industrial hydroelectric power supply, and is in proximity to the Nugget Pond mill. The Project, following the staking announced today, consists of 15 individual mineral licenses made up of 256 individual claims for an area of 6,400ha. The Project is predominately underlain by rocks of the Lush's Bight Group of the tectonostratigraphic Dunnage Zone of the Appalachian Orogen. The Lush's Bight Group is a Cambro-Ordovician sequence of ophiolitic metavolcanic rocks representing a portion of the oceanic crust of the proto-Atlantic Ocean, the Iapetus Sea. The group has been metamorphosed to greenschist facies and has undergone extensive faulting related to the initial formation of oceanic crust as well as the Taconic and Acadian Orogenies. The Lush's Bight Group contains more base metal sulphide showings per ...