Untested unroofed copper-gold porphyry in an emerging mining district
Location
The Cibola property consists of 3,567 Ha of road accessible claims located ninety kilometres southwest of Houston, British Columbia in a region host to economically significant porphyry deposits associated with the Late Cretaceous Bulkley and Eocene Babine suite of intrusives.
Overview
Cibola is centered on two outcropping zones: the granodiorite hosted “main zone”, and the volcanic sediment hosted gold zone in an otherwise extensively glacially covered property. Shallow historical drilling returned anomalous copper values and defined a region of concentrically zoned alteration dominated by a multi-kilometre zone of pyrite rich phyllic alteration.
Historical IP had defined a two kilometres by 1400 metre greater than 40 mv/V chargeability anomaly coincident with the interpreted zone of phyllic alteration and anomalous copper and gold. Modern IP transects in 2019 have confirmed the scale and magnitude of this anomaly which is comparable with the other porphyry systems in the region. In 2025, Orogen added a VTEM and magnetic dataset identifying several conductive and magnetic anomalies centered around the Main zone and coincident with the high chargeability, anomalous surface geochemistry and shallow drilling.
Based on these observations the Orogen team have developed a geological model of one or more intrusive stocks mantled and overlain by a flat-lying phyllic-argillic zone. The flat lying alteration zone suggests a high-level expression of a buried porphyry system which critically has not been tested by the shallow historically drilling.