Norden crown identifies new copper porphyry, epithermal gold, copper, silver, gold crd targets at smart creek
Vancouver, B.C., December 10, 2024. Norden Crown Metals Corp. (“Norden Crown” or the “Company”) (TSXV: NOCR, Frankfurt: 03E) has completed a field evaluation campaign at the Smart Creek Gold-Copper Project, including targeted geological mapping as well as opportunity recognition work at both the Smart Creek and Sunrise Mountain Claims, located in the Eocene Porphyry Belt of western Montana (Figures 1-4).
Norden Crown CEO Pat Varas stated “In addition to an excellent property-scale copper and gold metal endowment, our technical team has focused on a variety of porphyry-related mineralization styles in the Smart Creek / Sunrise project area and has concluded that the present erosion level offers several opportunities to test, high-grade copper and gold mineralized targets. The systems are well-preserved and have large alteration footprints, which demonstrate the potential for large deposits. This, combined with the abundance of reactive host rocks that can yield high grades indicates there is the potential for the discovery of ore deposits in the area that are best in-class.”
At the Smart Creek Project, Norden Crown is focused on four robust zones of alteration and mineralization areas/domains that represent compelling exploration targets including the porphyry copper targets previously tested by Rio Tinto. Norden’s team recognized preservation of the host stratigraphy, which provides the opportunity for additional porphyry (and related) targets, including structurally controlled/replacement style gold targets at the Sunrise mine (Figure 1).
In addition, exploration opportunities are recognized on the Smart Creek project with potential for carbonate replacement style mineralization (CRD) at the Smart Creek target and at Sunrise including copper, gold and silver replacement bodies near and associated with the historic Sunrise Mine, as evidenced by widespread marbleization and skarn development associated with manganese oxides and copper oxides in the carbonate metasedimentary rocks of the Helena formation.