A Canadian mining company has just finished a preliminary physical survey on the Alaska Peninsula. KDLG’s Chase Cavanaugh has more on the news, as well as their methods.
Vancouver-based Millrock Resources Inc. has just finished a preliminary geophysical survey on a portion of the Alaska Peninsula. The area comprises three prospects, Bee Creek, Mallard Duck Bay, and Kawisgag (kuh-wahs-geg), and contains the villages of Chignik Bay and Chignik Lagoon. Sara Whicker, an executive vice-president of Millrock, says the company used remote sensing to scan the 1.6 million acres of land.
“There’s a piece of equipment that is basically connected to the helicopter that flies over a block of land, and it picks up magnetic signals from the different types of metals or elements that are in the land, and once we process the data, gets us color anomalies that will help us hone in on areas that we may be interested in exploring further.”
Whicker says this data will be put to immediate use on phase two of the operation.
“The survey is actually going to inform our sampling program that is going to take place in the middle of this month. Our crew is actually mobilizing on the 15th of July, so really, we use a bunch of techniques and methods in order to put the x on the map where we actually want to drill.”
Millrock will send sampling teams to hike around the terrain. They will enter data on handheld computers as well as take rock samples for analysis in a lab, the results of which can determine the presence of desirable mineral deposits, such as porphyry copper. Additional information is available at Millrock’s website.