“I am very excited about the target on Albert’s Lake,” says Kelly Gilmore, an award-winning geologist, former chief exploration geologist for Hudbay and current Copper Reef board member. “It is very rare these days, after years of exploration in a mature mining camp, that you find a target like this one. It shares all the geophysical characteristics that known copper-zinc mines and mineral deposits typically have, and it is located in exceptionally good geology.”
Stephen Masson, president and CEO of the Flin Flon-based Copper Reef, refers to the find as “a huge anomaly.”
“This is the kind of target that is exciting,” he adds. “This is the kind of target we live for, to drill something like this, because it has such a high chance of success. Does it have a perfect chance of success? Absolutely it doesn’t. Everything is risky.”