お知らせ • Jun 05
Blue Star Gold Corp. Announces Blue Star's Target Series: High Potential Critical Mineral Opportunities
Blue Star Gold Corp. highlights its prospective critical mineral targets, located on the Roma Project, West Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut. Critical Mineral Highlights. Breakthrough in 2024 Critical Minerals Exploration: Blue Star makes first massive sulphide discovery in the High Lake Greenstone Belt (Ataani) in over 20 years. Expanding Discovery Potential: Indications the Ataani VMS horizon extends over 1,500 metres, with only 500 metres drill tested to date. Strategic Land Acquisitions: Newly acquired ground covers high-grade copper samples up to 9.99% Cu with indications of intense hydrothermal alteration, located less than 3 km from the High Lake VMS deposits. Prime Location for Growth: Assets located near the proposed Grays Bay Road and Port, ensuring easy access and future scalability. Mineral exploration in Canada's north has occurred intermittently since the 1950s, with significant investment during the 1970s, 1990s, and early 2000s. A key discovery within the High Lake deposit occurred in 2003 when a strong electromagnetic (EM) anomaly approximately 1,800 metres west of the known zones was drill tested. Subsequent drilling delineated the new West Zone, which added approximately 9.1 million tonnes to the existing resource. Extensive work around the West Zone was conducted from 2003 through 2013, including detailed mapping, prospecting, geophysical surveys, and lithogeochemical studies. A weak conductor was also identified beneath the lake, approximately 1,100 metres south of the gossan. The program concluded with two short drill holes, which intersected stringer to massive sulphide mineralization with sub-ore grades. Following these results, Noranda relinquished the claims. This anomaly coincides with a weak magnetic response. Historical data suggests that the conductive horizon hosting the Ataani mineralization extends approximately 1,500 metres along strike, with less than 500 metres of this length drill tested to date. Blue Star's Recent Work. The inaugural program included Fixed Loop Time Domain Electromagnetic (TDEM) surveys, which identified a strong conductor on the Ataani claims. A drill program tested this conductor with five holes, the best of which returned 0.42% Cu, 1.43% Zn, 9.19 g/t Ag, and 0.13 g/t Au over 17.1 metres, or 0.973% copper equivalent from a zone of stringer to massive sulphides as previously reported. Building on the success of the 2024 program, Blue Star completed a strategic acquisition of land surrounding the High Lake mineral leases in October 2024. Data compilation on Blue Star's newly acquired ground has identified surface copper grades ranging from 2.56% to 9.99% Cu. These high copper grades occur in areas with significant alteration including abundant dalamatianite and intense sodium depletion, strong indicators of hydrothermal alteration and proximity to a potential new discovery. Limited drilling (fewer than 20 holes) has been conducted on this ground, with most of the drilling focused on the Sand Lake prospect located approximately 15 km north of the High Lake deposits. Geological compilations suggest that Blue Star's new ground covers extensions of both the AB, D, and West Zone stratigraphy, with areas potentially overlooked by previous operators. On the Ataani claims, historical data suggests that the conductive Horizon identified in Blue Star's 2024 TDEM program extends approximately 1,000 metres south. Extending a modern TDEM survey over this horizon, combined with modeling the results using Maxwell 3D software could significantly increase the chances of discovering additional sulphide lenses. To date only 500 metres of the potential 1,500 metre trend has been explored using modern techniques. Well-documented alteration patterns in VMS systems can help predict proximity to ore centers. Focusing on these alteration zones along prospective horizons, followed up with TDEM surveys to identify conductors, will define the best targets for drill testing.