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Mesa Well

Mesa Well, Arizona
Target Commodity:Cu(-Mo)
Partnership Status:BCE wholly owned and available for partnership
Land Position:3,872 acres; seven Arizona Exploration Permits
Property Location:South of Klondike district; Graham County, Arizona; Pinaleņo Mountains western flank
  • Property lies along regional trend of porphyry copper mineralization extending from Safford district (Freeport-McMoRan) to San Manuel district (BHP-Billiton)

  • Adjacent to Klondike district, a past producer of copper, lead and zinc mineralization from skarn and replacement deposits in limestones and porphyry-like occurrences

  • Tertiary faults identified across area have dismembered and extended a Laramide-aged intrusive complex, exposing a dike swarm adjacent to BCE property, tilting young sedimentary rocks to steep angles, and offsetting the deeper portion of system to area beneath BCE property position along low-angle fault

  • BCE geologists have constrained fault vector and offset, and interpret observed porphyry-related alteration, significant geochemical anomaly, and remobilized copper on Mesa Well project land interpreted to indicate location of productive portion of porphyry center beneath low-angle fault on BCE property

  • Preliminary 2008 drill results interpreted to be consistent with structural model; holes cased for continued drilling in 2009