West Mining Completes 7 Diamond Drill Holes on the Kena Copper Zone, Kena Property, BC

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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- West Mining Corp. (“West” or the “Company”) (CSE: WEST) (OTC: WESMF) is pleased to report the completion of an initial 7 diamond drill holes on the Kena Copper Zone area of its 100% owned Kena gold and copper project in southeastern British Columbia. All of the holes intercepted strong zones of alteration and silicification along with variable pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization throughout. The Kena Copper Zone is identified by a significant copper geochemical anomaly associated with a strong zone of high chargeability, lying within mafic volcanic and subvolcanic diorites of the Rossland Group Elise Formation. The soil anomaly has dimensions of 2.5 kilometres in length by an average of 450 metres in width as outlined by the 300 ppm copper contour. Within the anomaly there are numerous soil samples assaying between 1,000 and 5,000 ppm copper. Between 1981 and 2010, a total of nine wide spaced historic drill holes tested the copper target. Broad zones of low grade copper mineralization (0.1 to 0.5% copper) were intersected by this historic drilling. Volcanic rocks in the Kena Copper Zone are comprised of andesitic to basaltic crystal tuff, lapilli tuff and flows. The area is characterized by the dominant northwest-southeast steeply dipping foliation seen across the northern half of the Kena property. Mineralization in the copper zone appears to conform to this fabric in the main body of the copper porphyry. Cutting this fabric is a series of quartz veins roughly perpendicular to the NW-SE trend. In the core, many of the veins are quartz with pink calcite or amethyst, strong clots of chlorite and abundant coarse pyrite, chalcopyrite and malachite. Malachite is often found on fractures even at depths greater than 100 metres. These late extensional veins were targeted in several historic workings found along the northeastern side of the main copper porphyry body. These workings include 5 adits, 2 shafts and several pits. All drill holes, with the exception of KC21-03 and KC21-07, are angled at -50o dip with azimuths of 040o in order to cross the foliation controlling mineralization at close to true width angles. The other two drill holes are vertical holes to facilitate deeper drilling depths. “We are excited to be drilling the underexplored robust Kena Copper Zone. Core ...

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