VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sable Resources Ltd. ("Sable" or the "Company") (TSXV:SAE | OTCQB:SBLRF) is pleased to announce that it has identified at least three copper mineralized magmatic-hydrothermal breccias within its 100% owned Copper Queen Project in British Columbia.
Dr. Ruben Padilla, President and CEO of Sable stated, "Earlier this year we were able to stake the Copper Queen property with an initial 2,864 hectares that we have now expanded to 13,880 ha. Our geology team was able to prove the existence of the breccias initially recognized by Anaconda in 1968 and we are pleased that our initial exploration results and mapping indicate the potential of Copper Queen to host both high grade and bulk tonnage copper mineralization.”
Highlights
- The Copper Queen property is located 225km west of Williams Lake and 25km northwest of Sable's Perk Rocky Project.
- Exploration work conducted by Anaconda between 1968 and 1969 reported the existence of quartz feldspar porphyry bodies and at least five mineralized breccias within a porphyry cluster extending for approximately 4.5 x 2km. No exploration work has been conducted on the property since 2011 and no actual mapping has been undertaken since Anaconda times.
- Sable's exploration team has conducted preliminary mapping and prospection confirming the existence of at least four of the breccias described by Anaconda. The team collected 251 rock samples and 123 soil samples.
- Results received for 57 samples returned values up to 1.02% Cu, 9.74 g/t Au, and 214 g/t Ag with 25 samples returning values greater than 0.1% Cu.
- Copper mineralization is represented by chalcopyrite and local bornite localized in the cement of the mentioned magmatic-hydrothermal breccias. Gangue minerals in the cement include quartz, calcite, chlorite, and sericite.
- Low-angle quartz veins outcropping around and between the breccias returned anomalous Au-Ag values including the highest Au and Ag values (9.74 g/t Au and 214 g/t Ag).
Figure 1. Location of the Copper Queen project and two other Sable's properties
as well as some significant deposits in the region.
Geology Description
The Copper Queen project is located within a large plutonic suite of Jurassic age that includes diorites, gabbros, granites, and aplites. The more felsic phases of the plutonic complex intrude the mafic ones, locally forming intrusion breccias. Post-intrusive dacite porphyry dykes fractured the country rocks generating magmatic hydrothermal breccias cemented with quartz, calcite, chlorite, epidote, chalcopyrite, and local bornite. Mineralized quartz veins with highly anomalous Au-Ag-Cu values are observed around the breccias. Anaconda originally described six breccias however Sable's fieldwork has only confirmed three containing Cu mineralization (Breccias 1, 2, and 3). A fourth breccia (Breccia 4) located 3km east of Breccia 1, exhibits similar textural characteristics but instead of Cu sulfides it contains abundant pyrite with local molybdenite. No results are yet available for the samples collected at Breccia 4.
Figure 2 shows the shapes and dimensions of the breccias as originally mapped by Anaconda. The geometry and size of the breccias have yet to be fully defined by Sable's team, however sampling and observations to date confirm the potential for disseminated bulk tonnage Cu mineralization. Notably, the Copper Queen breccias also contain highly anomalous silver ranging from <1 g/t to 41.7 g/t Ag, and gold ranging from detection limit to 0.58 g/t Au. Molybdenum is highly anomalous in some of the samples, especially in the mineralized quartz veins around the breccias, reaching values up to 196.5 ppm Mo, clearly suggesting an overall association with a fertile, high-level porphyry environment.
Figure 2. Distribution of copper values within the breccia zones found at Copper Queen.
Breccia outlines are shown as originally mapped by Anaconda in 1968.
Breccias 5 and 6 have not been recognized in the field.
Figure 3. Examples of mineralization at Copper Queen. A, quartz, calcite, chlorite
breccia cement. B, detail of the breccia cement showing oxidized chalcopyrite.
C and D, abundant chalcopyrite and Cu oxides in the breccia cement.
Sable's team continues on the ground, mapping and evaluating at least three additional areas where Cu mineralization has been observed outside of the main breccia zones described in this press release. Results for samples from these additional zones will be reported at a later date. Table 1, below, contains the location and results to date of highlighted samples from the main breccias at the Copper Queen project.
Table 1. Highlighted results from sampling at the Copper Queen Project.
| Sample | Northing | Easting | Elevation | Site | Cu (ppm) | Ag (g/t) | Au (g/t) | Mo
ppm |
| K843513 | 5765332 | 334362 | 2000 | Float | 10,250 | 41.7 | 0.091 | 1.79 |
| K843554 | 5765253 | 335679 | 1582 | Outcrop | 8,860 | 9.16 | 0.034 | 12.35 |
| K843559 | 5765383 | 334532 | 1961 | Outcrop | 7,190 | 9.45 | 0.03 | 1.1 |
| K843269 | 5765385 | 335619 | 1678 | Float | 6,680 | 9.58 | 0.084 | 2.64 |
| K843552 | 5765300 | 335642 | 1613 | Outcrop | 6,390 | 6.69 | 0.048 | 1.39 |
| K843551 | 5765294 | 335657 | 1598 | Outcrop | 6,340 | 4.82 | 0.035 | 4.47 |
| K843267 | 5765480 | 335474 | 1773 | Float | 6,070 | 11.5 | 0.026 | 19.05 |
| K843502 | 5765565 | 335092 | 1908 | Float | 5,470 | 0.92 | 0.005 | 4.89 |
| K843505 | 5765261 | 335605 | 1642 | Outcrop | 5,200 | 4.16 | 0.022 | 4.82 |
| K843332 | 5765324 | 334233 | 2023 | Outcrop | 5,090 | 10.15 | 0.126 | 4.67 |
| K843563 | 5765275 | 334552 | 1889 | Outcrop | 5,040 | 2.03 | 0.065 | 22.3 |
| K843334 | 5765302 | 334226 | 2020 | Outcrop | 4,960 | 6.29 | 0.584 | 1.88 |
| K843553 | 5765303 | 335634 | 1620 | Outcrop | 4,310 | 3.21 | 0.026 | 98.3 |
| K843328 | 5765322 | 334385 | 1987 | Float | 4,050 | 3.85 | 0.009 | 0.93 |
| K843512 | 5765364 | 334437 | 2002 | Outcrop | 4,020 | 9 | 0.029 | 1.63 |
| K843560 | 5765386 | 334676 | 1941 | Outcrop | 2,950 | 0.38 | 0.013 | 0.95 |
| K843275 | 5776847 | 335482 | 1839 | Float | 2,940 | 19.75 | 0.056 | 1.07 |
| K843330 | 5765345 | 334284 | 2016 | Outcrop | 2,940 | 1.76 | 0.127 | 2.15 |
| K843572 | 5777004 | 336901 | 1986 | Float | 2,700 | 4.36 | 0.01 | 41.4 |
| K843266 | 5765475 | 335461 | 1778 | Outcrop | 2,450 | 14.5 | 0.045 | 2.87 |
| K843508 | 5765352 | 334488 | 1953 | Float | 2,100 | 4.1 | 0.161 | 10.2 |
| K843447 | 5765540 | 334906 | 1932 | Outcrop | 2,080 | 5.48 | 0.167 | 4.33 |
| K843276 | 5776849 | 335481 | 1838 | Float | 2,070 | 2.43 | 0.007 | 27.2 |
| K843510 | 5765346 | 334490 | 1952 | Float | 1,695 | 4.18 | 0.104 | 2.3 |
| K843272 | 5765341 | 334455 | 1985 | Outcrop | 1,455 | 2.05 | 0.071 | 3.94 |
| K843506 | 5765247 | 335606 | 1592 | Outcrop | 1,335 | 1.55 | 0.009 | 1.06 |
| K843268 | 5765498 | 335511 | 1774 | Outcrop | 1,300 | 1.06 | 0.0025 | 1.71 |
| K843326 | 5765363 | 334481 | 1954 | Outcrop | 1,260 | 2.08 | 0.015 | 0.96 |
| K843335 | 5776868 | 336473 | 1742 |
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