Amarc Resources announced that planning has commenced with Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada, in preparation for an intended extensive 2024 drilling program at its 100% owned JOY Copper-Gold District in north-central British Columbia . The program – planned to commence at site in early June – is to be fully funded by Freeport, which is earning-in at JOY. Amarc will continue as operator of the project. Amarc has recently completed the 2023 field program at JOY. This year’s program was designed to inform the 2024 drilling plans and included extensive airborne and surface exploration surveys, focused on the detailed refinement of multiple porphyry copper-gold deposit targets clustered along mineralized trends across the JOY District. The final results from these comprehensive surveys are now being received and once appropriately verified and integrated into existing datasets, will be released. The principal components of the 2023 surveys were: 638 line-km of airborne Magnetotelluric geophysics; 30 km2 of ground-based MT geophysics; 72.5 line-km of Induced Polarization ground geophysics; 465 geological survey traverse-km; 769 systematic rock chip samples for assay; and 1,788 grid soil samples for assay. To facilitate future drilling, rehabilitation of exploration trail and bridge access to the PINE Cu-Au Deposit in the centre of the JOY tenure and other deposit targets was completed with Chu Cho Industries LP, a Tsay Keh Dene Nation business.
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