SICKLE-SOFIA PROPERTY
 

Highlights: BCGold Corp.’s new porphyry copper discovery in the Toodoggone district.   Situated 33 km north of the Kemess South Mine, which produced 185,162 ounces of gold and 51.9 million pounds of copper in 2008.   In 2007 BCGold’s first drill hole on the Sofia zone intersected 47 metres averaging 0.17% copper.

BCGold has earned a 51% interest in the Sickle-Sofia Property, in the Toodoggone district in north-central British Columbia, by way of an option agreement with Stealth Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: SML).

The Sickle-Sophia Property is located just north of the Kemess South Mine, situated approximately 400 kilometres north of Mackenzie, British Columbia. The Toodoggone district has excellent mineral exploration potential; it hosts a number of developed and undeveloped epithermal gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold deposits, as well as Northgate Minerals' 50,000 tonne per day Kemess South mine. The Kemess South mine is one of B.C.'s larger porphyry copper-gold deposits and is one of Canada's largest mines by throughput.

In 2007 BCGold completed a $1.3 million, 1,500 metre exploration drilling and geophysical program on the Sickle-Sofia Property, resulting in a significant porphyry copper-gold discovery at the Sofia Zone. Drill hole BCG07-01 intersected 47.0 metres that averaged 0.13% copper and 0.08 g/t gold. Drill hole BCG07-03 was drilled 2.6 kilometres to the south and intersected significant low-grade, high-sulphidation gold mineralization at the Alexandra Zone.
 

last updated: April 01, 2009