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Jasper Mining Corporation mobilizes on to Erie Creek property
Jasper Mining Corporation mobilizes on to Erie Creek property.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTrading Symbol: JSP (TSX-V)\n\n\nCALGARY, Feb. 16 /CNW/ - Jasper Mining Corporation (the \"Company\") has\ncommenced mobilizing on to its 100% owned Erie Creek property located north of\nSalmo and south of Nelson, in southeastern British Columbia. The property\ncomprises a total of 4,340 ha (10,727 acres), extending 10.3 kilometres\nnorth-south by 7.3 kilometres east-west, consisting of 13 contiguous mineral\ntenures over an area of approximately 70 square kilometres.\n\n\nA cat has been mobilized onto the program to plow the road in preparation\nfor the arrival of the diamond drill on Monday, February 19, 2007. An amended\nexploration permit has been approved for a total of eight drill pads. The pads\nare all located along existing roads, requiring minimal preparation for\ndrilling. Diamond drilling is anticipated to commence late Monday afternoon to\nevening. The proposed drill program intends to follow-up surface soil results\npreviously reported (see Press Release dated February 7, 2007) which are\ninterpreted to delineate the Erie Creek Stock very well. The eight pads are\nlocated entirely within the geochemically defined boundaries of the stock,\nextending from the margin to the core.\n\n\nThe emphasis of this preliminary program is to test the interpreted\n\n\nHattie porphyry occurrence (BC MINFILE 082FSW 226) described as follows:\n\n\n \"Mineralization on the property occurs roughly in four concentric\n zones. An inner quartz-molybdenum plus scheelite zone followed by a\n chalcopyrite zone, a pyrite-pyrrhotite zone and an outer sphalerite-\n galena zone. The inner zone is approximately 600 metres in diameter\n and is centered on the east side of Erie Creek. The host rocks are\n quartz monzonite dykes, stocks and white rhyolite. The chalcopyrite\n zone occurs over an area of 1.5 to 2 kilometres and occurs in quartz\n and sulphide veinlets as fracture coatings and in shear veins with\n pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor amounts of scheelite. The best copper\n values obtained, up to 1.3 per cent, were from vein and dump samples\n mainly from old workings on the west side of Erie Creek (Drum Lummon,\n Cooper King, Dora, Homestake). Pyrite and pyrrhotite, in an area\n about 1.5 by 2.5 kilometres, occur finely disseminated and as\n fracture coatings. Sphalerite and galena with some gold occur in\n shear veins beyond the inn...