Gladiator Stakes New Copper Skarn Prospect at the Whitehorse Copper Project
Gladiator Metals has staked 55 claims covering 11.3 km² at the Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect, located 15km west of the Whitehorse Copper Project. This area includes 6 km of mineralized zones between Cretaceous intrusions and Triassic metasediments, showing high-grade copper, gold, and silver results from historical drilling. Highlights include KT-003 (6.12m @ 5.61% Cu, 1.03g/t Au, 247g/t Ag) and KT-007 (10.67m @ 6.45g/t Au). Initial exploration has begun with summer programs, and drone magnetics planned. The Jackson Prospect exhibits significant future potential with undrilled high-grade surface mineralization and magnetic anomalies over 4.4 km. Gladiator plans to reorient drill lines to better target these zones.
- Staked 55 new claims covering 11.3 km² at Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect.
- Historical drill results show high-grade mineralization: KT-003 (6.12m @ 5.61% Cu, 1.03g/t Au, 247g/t Ag).
- Initial exploration commenced with summer programs and drone magnetics planned.
- Undrilled high-grade surface mineralization identified with samples up to 30% Cu.
- Proximity to Whitehorse provides year-round access and excellent infrastructure.
- Historical data may not conform to current industry standards.
- No independent verification of historical results, which may affect reliability.
- Significant reorientation of drill lines needed, implying previous drilling was not optimal.
- No metallurgical test work has been completed, assuming 100% recovery may not be accurate.
HIGHLIGHTS:
As part of Gladiator's ongoing regional project assessment the Company has staked 55 claims for an additional 11.3 km2 of tenure encompassing the Jackson Copper-Skarn prospect 15km to the west of the Whitehorse Copper Project.
The Jackson Copper-Skarn prospect covers more than 6 km of strike of the prospective contact between Cretaceous intrusive bodies and Triassic metasediments which is a primary control on the location of mineralization at the Whitehorse Copper Belt.
Significant future exploration potential indicated at the Jackson Copper-Skarn prospect by shallow historical drill results intersecting high-grade copper (+/-gold and silver) skarns including:
KT-003: 6.12m @
5.61% Cu, 1.03g/t Au and 247 g/t Ag from 55.14m.KT-007: 10.67m @ 6.45 g/t Au from 71.02m within 21.88m @ 3.45 g/t Au.
M-001: 1.99m @ 4.0 g/t Au from 19.35m.
Further, undrilled target areas highlighted by high-grade copper skarn mineralization exposed on surface including:
Franklin Target: Rock chip samples to
9.4% Cu (6.36g/t Au) and30% Cu.Hamilton Target: Rock Chip sampling to
3.48% Cu (10.4% Zn) and1.64% Cu (41.9% Zn).Janet Target: Rock Chip sampling to
7.85% Cu and 16.59 g/t Au associated with magnetite skarns and elevated Fe values.
Initial airboune magnetics conducted by previous explorers highlight undrilled high-magnetic anomalies over more than 4.4 km of strike.
Summer exploration programs including mapping and sampling have commenced in the area with drone magnetics planned for later in the season.
Gladiator CEO, Jason Bontempo commented:
"Gladiators ongoing regional project generation work has driven the staking of the highly prospective Jackson Copper Skarn prospect 15km to the west of current exploration on the Whitehorse Copper Belt and accessible by existing drill trails.
"Early exploration by previous explorers includes the identification of high grade copper skarn mineralisation on surface with grades of up to
"Gladiator has commenced summer exploration exploration programs and looks forward to updating the market with further news from the Whitehorse Copper Belt in the coming weeks."
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 30, 2024) - Gladiator Metals Corp. (TSXV: GLAD) (OTCQB: GDTRF) (FSE: ZX7) ("Gladiator" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has staked 55 claims for 11.3 km2 at the Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect (the "Jackson Prospect") located 15km to the west of existing claims at the Whitehorse Copper Project.
Jackson Prospect
The recent staking of the Jackson Prospect area covers approximately 6 km of prospective contact between Cretaceous intrusive bodies and Triassic metasediments which is the primary control on the formation of high grade copper (+/-gold/silver) skarn mineralization in the Whitehorse Copper district.
Areas of outcropping magnetite-copper skarn mineralization within the Jackson Prospect area have been subject to intermittent exploration by historical explorers including spatially constrained soil sampling, mapping, trenching and approximately 1,901m of diamond drilling in 24 drillholes.
This historical work is supported by limited airbourne magnetics conducted by Precision Geophysics in 2014 which have highlighted more than 4.4 km of untested magnetic anomalism coincident with high magnetic response, areas of outcropping magnetite-copper skarns and the mapped contact between Cretaceous intrusions and Triassic limestones (see Figure 1 below). This highlights the underexplored prospectivity of the Jackson prospect area which will be the subject of summer exploration programs.
Gladiator has compiled the historic drilling at the Jackson Project in the 1970's and 80's (refer to Table 1 below for details). This collation identified high-grade magnetite copper-gold-silver skarn mineralization, that is strongly associated with the high-tenor magnetic anomalism with results including:
KT-003: 6.12m @
5.61% Cu, 1.03g/t Au and 247 g/t Ag from 55.14m.KT-007: 10.67m @ 6.45 g/t Au from 71.02m within 21.88m @ 3.45 g/t Au.
M-001: 1.99m @ 4.0 g/t Au from 19.35m.
Drilling may have been improperly aligned to the mineralization, given that drilling was focused on a WNW line semi perpendicular to the magnetic anomaly (Figure 1) resulting in some holes being drilled over the top or under the targeted mineralsaztion. Gladiator believes that significant potential remains by re-orientation the drill lines (SW-NE). A complete list of drill holes and their results are detailed in Table 2.
Figure 1: Inset map - location of recently staked Jackson Prospect (Red) 15km to the West of Existing Gladiator tenements (blue). Main Local area geology and location of drilling, historical airbourne magnetic anomalism plus surface sampling and drilling highlights. Geophysics is 2014 TMI surveyed by Precision Geophysics.
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Outside of the drilled area, further, undrilled and underexplored mineralized target areas remain and are highlighted by high-grade copper skarn mineralization exposed on surface for over 6 km and include:
Franklin Target: Located more than 2.6km to the east of historic drilling with rock chip samples in trenching to
9.4% Cu (6.36g/t Au) and30% Cu.Hamilton Target: Rock Chip sampling in a road cut parallel to historic drilling with highlights including
3.48% Cu (10.4% Zn) and1.64% Cu (41.9% Zn).Janet Target: Located approximately 700m to the east of historic drilling. Previous claim holder completed rock chip sampling within a trench and on surface. In total 6 samples were collected. Results from sampling returned up to
7.85% Cu, 16.59 g/t Au & 292 g/t Ag. Samples were associated with elevated Fe supporting that magnetics can be utilized as a direct targeting tool. Results are tabeld below:
| Sample | Cu (%) | Au (g/t) | Ag (g/t) | Fe (%) | CuEq (Cu, Au, Ag) | Description |
| BA14-1 | 7.85 | 1.36 | 292 | 29.84 | 11.65 | Massive pod or vein of skarn sulphides. Dark grey black with oxidized and rusty weathered. surface. |
| BA14-2 | 1.12 | 12.11 | 211 | 13.98 | 12.13 | Quartz and sulphide vein. Coxcomb quartz veins with fine grey-black sooty diseminated sulphide bands. Pyrite is only readil identifiable sulphide. |
| BA14-3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 1.83 | 0.08 | Quartz crystals up to 3 cm long cemented by a calcite and limonite matrix. No visible sulphides. |
| BA14-4 | 0.75 | 16.59 | 218 | 15.80 | 15.15 | Same as BAl4-2. |
| BA14-5 | 6.30 | 0.66 | 37 | 17.21 | 7.14 | From Trench, garnet quartz skarn, both pink andradite garnet and a black variety. Some disseminated chalchopyrite Possible sphalerite. |
| BA14-6 | 5.36 | 1.61 | 239 | 16.78 | 8.84 | From Trench, Quartz, magnetite and chalchopyrite sulphide skarn |
Table 1: Rock Chip Sampling from the historical BA-14 Claim completed in May 2001. Documented in Assesment report 094262 (https://data.geology.gov.yk.ca/AssessmentReport/094262#InfoTab)
Copper Equivalent (CuEq) was based on the following assumed metal prices on the 26 May 2024 of $US 10,204 per tonne Cu, $US2,357 per Ounce Au & $US30.36 per Ounce Ag. Recovery is assumed to be
| Hole ID | Depth | East | North | Dip | Azim | Note | From | To | Interval (m) | Cu (%) | Au (g/t) | Ag (g/t) | CuEq (Cu,Au, Ag) | CuEq*M (CuEq * Int) | Remarks |
| K86-01 | 101.80 | 479,933 | 6,728,174 | -70 | 39 | 0.00 | Not Sampled | ||||||||
| K86-02 | 134.72 | 479,951 | 6,728,231 | -70 | 219 | 0.00 | Not Sampled | ||||||||
| K86-03 | 112.47 | 480,052 | 6,728,216 | -60 | 197 | 0.00 | Not Sampled | ||||||||
| K86-04 | 106.38 | 479,830 | 6,728,358 | -70 | 301 | 0.00 | Not Sampled | ||||||||
| KT-001 | 45.72 | 480,102 | 6,728,171 | -55 | 35 | 0.00 | NSA | ||||||||
| KT-002 | 82.60 | 480,080 | 6,728,151 | -60 | 35 | 0.00 | NSA | ||||||||
| KT-003 | 82.60 | 479,937 | 6,728,240 | -55 | 215 | M1 | 42.06 | 42.55 | 0.49 | 8.36 | 2.18 | 619.58 | 15.91 | 7.79 | |
| M2 | 55.14 | 61.26 | 6.12 | 5.61 | 1.03 | 246.83 | 8.74 | 53.46 | |||||||
| KT-004 | 88.09 | 479,935 | 6,728,238 | -80 | 215 | 71.02 | 78.24 | 7.22 | 0.03 | 0.75 | 2.55 | 0.61 | 4.41 | ||
| Incl. | 71.02 | 76.72 | 5.70 | 0.03 | 0.87 | 3.23 | 0.71 | 4.03 | |||||||
| KT-005 | 95.40 | 480,276 | 6,728,087 | -55 | 180 | Not Sampled | |||||||||
| KT-006 | 32.61 | 479,907 | 6,728,250 | -55 | 220 | Not Sampled | |||||||||
| KT-006A | 75.90 | 479,907 | 6,728,250 | -55 | 220 | M1 | 54.92 | 59.44 | 4.52 | 0.15 | 0.31 | 4.50 | 0.42 | 1.91 | |
| KT-007 | 94.79 | 479,956 | 6,728,229 | -55 | 220 | M1 | 71.02 | 92.90 | 21.88 | 0.14 | 3.38 | 5.15 | 2.70 | 59.06 | |
| Incl. | 71.02 | 81.69 | 10.67 | 0.02 | 6.32 | 2.35 | 4.74 | 50.53 | |||||||
| KT-008 | 116.13 | 480,006 | 6,728,334 | -60 | 40 | 0.00 | Not Sampled | ||||||||
| KT-009 | 185.62 | 480,004 | 6,728,331 | -80 | 220 | 0.00 | Not Sampled | ||||||||
| L-001 | 58.52 | 479,819 | 6,728,288 | -90 | 0 | M1 | 27.58 | 28.19 | 0.61 | 0.11 | 0.11 | Only 1.43m Sampled, Best result includes | |||
| L-002 | 71.78 | 479,844 | 6,728,271 | -90 | 0 | M1 | 55.93 | 56.69 | 0.76 | 0.26 | 0.16 | 4.35 | 0.42 | 0.32 | Only 2.74m Sampled, Best result Includes |
| L-003 | 82.60 | 479,844 | 6,728,272 | -70 | 35 | 0.00 | Not Sampled | ||||||||
| L-004 | 69.19 | 479,874 | 6,728,261 | -90 | 0 | M1 | 63.09 | 65.23 | 2.14 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 2.49 | 0.19 | 0.41 | Only 4.12m Sampled, Best result includes |
| L-005 | 102.11 | 480,124 | 6,728,204 | -90 | 0 | Not Sampled | |||||||||
| L-006 | 60.35 | 480,082 | 6,728,210 | -90 | 0 | Not Sampled | |||||||||
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FAQ
What is the Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect?
The Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect is a newly staked area by Gladiator Metals, covering 11.3 km² of high-grade copper skarn mineralization, located 15km west of the Whitehorse Copper Project.
What are the historical drill results from the Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect?
Historical drill results include KT-003 with 6.12m @ 5.61% Cu, 1.03g/t Au, and 247g/t Ag, and KT-007 with 10.67m @ 6.45g/t Au.
What exploration activities are planned for the Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect?
Gladiator Metals has commenced summer exploration programs, including mapping, sampling, and drone magnetics.
What is the significance of the high-grade surface mineralization at Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect?
High-grade surface mineralization, with rock chip samples up to 30% Cu, indicate significant future exploration potential.
What challenges does Gladiator Metals face with the Jackson Copper-Skarn Prospect?
Challenges include verifying historical data, reorienting drill lines, and completing metallurgical tests to confirm recovery rates.
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