High Grade Copper And Silver Mineralization At The New Boston System

VANCOUVER - VR Resources Ltd. reported on exploration for its New Boston polymetallic copper-moly-silver porphyry system located in west-central Nevada.

CEO, Michael Gunning, said, “The data and rock photos illustrate how, some forty years later, modern ICP-MS geochemistry highlights the true polymetallic nature of the porphyry system, and how widespread the high-grade copper-silver veins actually are on surface across the 4km alteration footprint at New Boston.

Despite the grades in the new grab sample assays, they are not the target. The state-of-the-art geophysics completed by VR in April paints a clear picture for a central porphyry stock target with concentrated vein stockworks of conductive copper sulfide. The conductor shown on the satellite image comes to surface and plunges for 900 m to the west into the bowl, open, without a single historic drill hole into it.  With our permit, we intend to change that. The US government has recently added copper to the top of its Critical Metal list for domestic, raw material supply for sustainable, downstream technologies and industries as the Green Economy emerges. We have been working with the BLM on this NOI drill permit application for the past month or so, and no hurdles or impediments have been identified.  We have worked with the BLM on numerous other projects over the past decade, and we anticipate the same transparent and efficient process for New Boston.”

New Boston is within the Walker Lane mineral belt and structural province in west-central Nevada. More specifically, it is within the co-spatial belts of Jurassic and Cretaceous aged copper and moly porphyry deposits, including the Yerington camp and Hall deposit.  

New Boston is located in the Garfield Range in Mineral County, approximately 150 km southeast of Reno. Vegetation is sparse in the range; outcrop or colluvium predominate on the property itself, with quaternary cover developed off its eastern border and eastern flank of the range. The property location facilitates cost-effective exploration, year-round.  Access is from the nearby town of Luning located just 5 km to the east on State Highway 95 connecting Reno and Las Vegas. The property itself is criss-crossed by a myriad of active, historic trails and roads which are reachable from the highway.