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Courtland East, Arizona
| Target Commodity: |  | Cu-Au |
| Partnership Status: | | Under lease/option agreement |
| Land Position: | | ~2,242 acres; 18 U.S. unpatented lode mining claims, five Arizona Exploration Permits |
| Property Location: | | Courtland-Gleeson district; Cochise County, Arizona; approx. 30 miles north of Bisbee; southeast of Dragoon mountains |
- Historic district with high-grade copper-gold replacement and skarn deposits district similar to those seen in nearby Bisbee district and high-grade replacement ores of Pima, San Manuel, and Silver Bell districts --- all of which were later recognized to be associated with nearby porphyry copper systems with undiscovered porphyry source
- Historic Courtland-Gleeson deposits are fault-bound (rootless); porphyry source as-yet undiscovered
- Multiple generations of faults have dramatically dismembered and rotated stratigraphy to steep angles
- New district interpretation by BCE geologists brings refined perspective on mineralizing systems, structure, and presumed location of porphyry source beneath post-mineral cover rocks within BCE land position
- New geophysical data (seismic and NSAMT) supports BCE structural interpretation
- Drill sites permitted and ready to drill
- Preliminary 2008 drill hole results interpreted to be consistent with structural model; hole cased for continued drilling in 2009