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World Copper Samples High-Grade Oxide Copper and Provides Exploration Update
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 12, 2021) - World Copper Ltd. (TSXV: WCU...
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[{"type":"text","content":"World Copper Samples High-Grade Oxide Copper and Provides Exploration UpdateVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 12, 2021) - World Copper Ltd. (TSXV: WCU) (OTC: WCUFF) (\"World Copper\" or the \"Company\") announces an exploration update on its recent Chilean exploration activities at the Escalones Copper Project (\"Escalones\" or the \"Escalones Project\"). World Copper conducted a two-month rock sampling and mapping programme (the \"Sampling Program\") over the Escalones extension targets (see news release dated March 2, 2021). During the Sampling Program, 336 samples were collected (see below) from the untested Mancha Amarilla lithocap, and an additional 440 samples were collected from northern targets, which results will be released in a subsequent news release.The objectives of the Sampling Program at the extension targets was to delimit surface mineralization and alteration in Mancha Amarilla and the East Skarn. The results will help the Company direct the drilling planned for the end of the year at the Escalones Project, with the objective of increasing the Escalones mineral resource.The Mancha Amarilla lithocap has alteration mineralogy and geochemistry consistent with the weathered top of a porphyry system and extends one kilometre south from the area of drill-defined resources at the main Escalones deposit. The geology in the southern-most drill holes and the surface alteration at Escalones indicates the southern half of the Escalones system is as deeply oxidized as that to the north and could contain significant soluble copper mineralization. Recent core logging and metallurgical sampling indicates that the shallow copper-oxide mineralization at Escalones could be amenable to heap leach processing, which would result in lower capital and operating costs and a smaller environmental footprint, allowing for direct copper cathode production relative to a sulphide flotation project.The East Skarn target overlies the Mancha Amarilla to the northeast and has only minor previous surface sampling and drilling along the north edge. It was not sampled at surface over the most intensely mineralized portion that measures 400 metres by 600 metres. The sandstone host rocks are strongly mineralized with copper oxides at surface.CEO Nolan Peterson stated, \"World Copper has a new vision and exploration plan for Escalo...