High Grade Drilling Results At The Bornite Project In Alaska

VANCOUVER, BC - Trilogy Metals Inc. reported the second and final set of assay results from this summer’s exploration diamond drilling program at the Bornite Project, which is part of the Company’s Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (UKMP) located in the Ambler mining district of Northwest Alaska. The six Bornite drill holes reported below comprise approximately 4,596 meters from the 7,610-meter drill campaign which was completed in September. The results from the first four holes at Bornite were announced in September. Three of the six drill holes contain significant copper mineralization and were designed as infill holes to the 300 to 400-meter step-out holes completed in 2017 and 2018. Whereas, the other three holes are step out exploration holes.

James Gowans, Interim President and CEO, said, “One of the factors that drew me to become involved with the Company is the fact that the Bornite Project is one of the highest-grade copper projects in the world. As an engineer, who had constructed high-quality mines throughout the world, the Bornite Project has many affinities to some of the world class assets that I have worked on, specifically the size and grade. I look forward to advancing this project, which nicely complements our other high-grade project at Arctic.”

This year’s program at Bornite was comprised of 10 drill holes totaling approximately 7,610 metres through a combination of infill and expansion drill holes in and around the known resource. 

RC19-0262, RC19-0263 and RC19-0266 were all exploration holes designed to test targets identified by various geophysical methods away from the existing resource. RC19-0262 was designed to test the far east side of the deposit following up on a district-wide Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetic (“VTEM”) anomaly identified during the spring 2019 VTEM/Z – Axis Tipper Electromagnetic (“ZTEM”) survey; RC19-0263, on the far west side of the deposit was testing a gravity anomaly identified during the 2017 field program; and RC19-0266 was testing the south-end of the South Reef mineralization where copper mineralization (azurite, malachite) is observed at the surface of Iron Mountain.

All but hole RC19-0264 were drilled normal to stratigraphy and therefore the intercepts can be considered to be true widths. Hole RC19-0264 was drilled at a northeast azimuth to intersect a moderately southwest dipping mineralized carbonate vein set identified in previous oriented drill holes and is oblique to the main stratigraphically controlled mineralization. 

The company’s address is Suite 1150, 609 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC V7Y 1G5, (604) 630-3569, trilogymetals.com.