Mining
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 1:56 pm EDT
Key Points
- Phase one of Manning Ventures Inc.’s 2024 exploration program at the Copper Hill Project in Nevada includes a completed property-wide gravity survey, along with detailed geologic mapping and soil geochemistry.
- The gravity geophysical program aims to advance knowledge by determining the extent of intrusive and limestone rocks, helping delineate various rock types and fault zone orientations at depth.
- Copper Hill, situated within the prolific Walker Lane trend, hosts copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization in both porphyry and skarn styled deposits, with historic mining activities dating back to the early 20th century.
Manning Ventures Inc. (the “Company” or “Manning”) (CSE: MANN; Frankfurt: 1H5) is pleased to announce that the gravity survey portion of its phase one 2024 exploration program at the Copper Hill Project, located within the prolific Walker Lane Trend, Nevada, USA.
Phase one of drill target generating work consists of detailed geologic mapping, soil geochemistry, and the now completed property-wide gravity survey. The results of the survey are being sent to Jim Wright of JL Wright Geophysics for interpretation that will incorporate a comprehensive report and compilation of gravity survey, ground mag, and current geology. The results will be combined with all available historic data to outline target areas that can be tested with core and reverse circulation drilling.
The gravity geophysical program advance knowledge and will assist in determining the extent of the intrusive and limestone rocks. Sample locations are laid out to provide enough points to show the density contrasts between the different lithologies. This will provide data to help delineate the various rock types and define fault zone orientations at depth, below the surface.
Copper Hill is centered on a Jurassic Age quartz monzonite porphyry that intrudes the surrounding Triassic Age Luning Limestone, which was then cut by a variety of intrusive dikes. Zones of porphyry-related copper and gold-bearing skarn mineralization occur at the intrusive-limestone contacts and along fault zones in the intrusive.
The Company will continue to update the program as it progresses in the weeks ahead.
Image 1: Location of Copper Hill, Walker Lane Trend, Nevada, USA
About the Copper Hill Project
Located within the prolific Walker Lane trend in southern Nevada, Copper Hill is situated one of the premier jurisdictions for precious metals mining in the world. Historic endowment within Walker Lane includes 50Moz Au, 700Moz Ag, and 4Mt Cu. Copper Hill hosts copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization in both porphyry and skarn styled deposits in Mineral County, Nevada. The property consists of 66 mineral claims covering an area of 2.3 miles. The property is located 22 miles north of Hawthorne, Nevada and is accessible using well-maintained County Roads.
The Project is centered on a Jurassic Age quartz monzonite porphyry intruding Triassic age Luning Limestone. The claims cover 2.3 sq miles and are 33 miles east of the Yerington Copper District which hosts the Yerington Copper Mine (Anaconda 1952-1978), Ann Mason Deposit, Bear Deposit, MacArthur Deposit, and the Pumpkin Hollow Mine.
Historically at Copper Hill, reported high-grade copper was mined from underground shafts from skarn and porphyry-copper styled mineralization at the Copper Mountain Mine. Between 1914 to 1926 mining from the “Copper Mountain Mine” produced an estimated 1,000,000 pounds of copper from shallow underground workings. Historic reporting from the period of production describes ore zones of contact skarn- type and porphyry-type mineralization with shipping grades ranging from 3.5 to 11.0% copper*.
*Historic Minning information was summarized from an “Unpublished Report on the Carson Sink Area, Nevada by F.C. Schrader, U.S. Geological Survey (Field work 1911-1920) 1947”. Manning Ventures cautions investors that the historic exploration and production information is believed to be accurate but has not been verified by a qualified person.
The Copper Hill mineralizing system forms a topographic high surrounded and partially covered by younger volcanic rocks. Mineralization identified at Copper Hill are bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper-native, covellite, cuprite, gold, malachite, molybdenite, silver, sphalerite (rare), and tetrahedrite.
The Copper Mountain area was explored between 1959 to 1979 by Idaho Minning Corp. and Walker-Martel who conducted ground geophysics, underground mapping, prospecting and reported 6000 feet of Rotary drilling. Since that time ground magnetics were conducted in 2007.
Rock sampling collected at this time returned values from select samples of 7.2% and 12.7% copper and 1.06 g/t gold and 1.19 g/t gold respectively.
The target being sought at Copper Hill is a porphyry styled copper-molybdenum-gold deposit.
Warren Robb P.Geo., is the designated Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information contained in this release.
About Manning
Manning Ventures is a mineral exploration and development company focused metals and materials critical to the growing Energy Metals space. Manning’s project portfolio is focused on Copper in Nevada, Lithium/Copper in Ontario and Quebec, and multiple Iron Ore projects in Quebec.
For further information contact:
Manning Ventures Inc.
Alex Klenman – CEO
Email: info@manning-ventures.com
Telephone: (604) 681-0084
