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District Copper Corp. Provides Update on Copper Keg Porphyry Copper Project

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District Copper Corp. is pleased to provide an update on its flagship Copper Keg porphyry copper project in the Kamloops mining Division, BC. The project covers 6,628 ha located at the northern end of the Guichon batholith, approximately 20 kms north of the porphyry copper deposits currently being mined by Teck Resources Limited. The company's Phase 1 results of the 2025 exploration program have significantly upgraded the understanding of the porphyry copper potential of the property.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Phase 1 results of the 2025 exploration program have identified several porphyry related geological parameters not previously recorded on the property, including the presence of porphyritic dikes, mineralized and non-mineralized veinlets, and localized areas of intense bleaching and pyritization of the Nicola Volcanics.
  • The company's focus is to characterize the porphyry copper potential of the property and use this data to develop an updated exploration model on which to base future exploration activities.
  • The Phase 1 field work resulted in the relocation of the Guichon Creek/Nicola contact in several areas of the project, and the presence of intensely altered NNW trending porphyritic, plagioclase and quartz-plagioclase dikes and ENE trending porphyritic quartz-plagioclase-Kspar dikes intruding the Nicola Volcanic.
  • Petrographic studies are underway on samples from these dikes to determine intensity and style of alteration.
  • The Guichon Creek intrusive within the property is a biotite granodiorite that in areas exhibits weak sericitic and chlorite alteration, weak disseminated pyrite mineralization, and dark gray quartz veinlets, epidote veinlets, and sparse quartz-hematite-malachite veinlets.
  • Several cross-cutting styles of mineralized and non-mineralized vein sets and alteration halos indicative of the alteration styles present in a porphyry copper system have been identified, including NW and NE trending quartz-pyrite veins exhibiting sericite halos and East-northeast trending quartz-magnetite veins and N-S and N-NW trending anhydrite/gypsum veins.
  • Primary and secondary copper mineralization has been located in the areas investigated during Phase 1 of the field program, including moderate bleaching, silicification, significant pyrite mineralization, and sparse quartz-chalcopyrite and quartz-malachite-chrysocolla veinlets.

Statistics:

  • The Copper Keg project covers an area of approximately 6,628 ha.
  • The Phase 1 field work resulted in the relocation of the Guichon Creek/Nicola contact in several areas of the project.
  • Petrographic studies are underway on samples from the dikes to determine intensity and style of alteration.
  • The Guichon Creek intrusive within the property is approximately 20 kms north of the porphyry copper deposits currently being mined by Teck Resources Limited.
  • The project's Phase 1 results have significantly upgraded the understanding of the porphyry copper potential of the property.

Sources:

  • District Copper Corp., Newsfile Corp., July 24, 2025
  • Jevin Werbes, CEO, District Copper Corp.
  • Chris M. Healey, P.Geo., Chief Geologist, and a Director of District Copper Corp.
  • District Copper Corp., SEDAR plus, www.sedarplus.ca.

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