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The company collected 246 rock samples, 436 soil samples and 169 stream-sediment samples and completed a property-wide LiDAR survey. Soil and stream-sediment assays were still pending.","The company said mineralization now spans a 4.4-kilometre strike when the Birch Zone and southwest occurrences are considered together. Selected grab samples included up to 2.20% copper and 35.3 g/t silver in quartz-vein-hosted mineralization. At the dolomite-hosted Birch Zone, selected samples reached 1.60% copper and 1.7 g/t silver. 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