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Superior West

Superior West, Arizona
Target Commodity:Cu-Au-Ag
Partnership Status:Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation earn-in joint-venture agreement
Land Position:~5,195 acres; 256 U.S. unpatented lode mining claims, and 14 additional adjacent claims (280 acres) by option agreement
Property Location:Pioneer mining district; Pinal County, Arizona, approximately three miles west of Superior and 50 miles east of Phoenix
  • District is setting of the Magma Vein (a copper-silver-gold vein that produced 25 million tons of ore with >4% Cu), and the giant Resolution Copper deposit (~1.3 billion tones containing 1.5% copper)

  • BCE is targeting two styles mineralization at Superior West: (1) the faulted, displaced and concealed western extension of the Magma Vein, and (2), the yet-undiscovered porphyry copper system that served as the source for the Magma Vein

  • Reinterpretation of district structure and mineral/metal zoning patterns by BCE geologists predict location of porphyry source beneath younger cover rocks on the BCE property position