{"id":1145955,"date":"2019-10-25T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1005291"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:23:11","slug":"imperial-metals-options-mount-polley-area-claims-from-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1145955","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Metals options Mount Polley area claims from Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commander Resources (CMD:TSX-V) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commanderresources.com\/investors\/news\/2019\/commander-options-mount-polley-area-claims-to-imperial-metals-2019-10-25\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"announced Friday (opens in a new tab)\">announced Friday<\/a> that it has granted Imperial Metals  (TSE: III) an option to earn a 100% interest in seven mineral claims covering 3,331 hectares adjacent to the north and east boundaries of Imperial\u2019s Mount Polley Mine in central British Columbia.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Mount Polley Mine is an open pit copper<br \/>\ngold producer with a mill capacity of approximately 20,000 tonnes per day and has<br \/>\nbeen on care and maintenance since Imperial suspended operations in January. <\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>\nconsideration for the option is $250,000 staged over three payments, 90% due to<br \/>\nCommander and 10% due to the arm\u2019s length private company. <\/p>\n<p>Target settings within the optioned claims include<br \/>\na potential northern projection of the high-grade Boundary Zone and Quarry Zone<br \/>\nbeneath a post-mineral conglomerate unit. Historical drilling within this area<br \/>\ndid not penetrate the younger conglomerate. A single line of Titan 24<br \/>\ndeep-looking induced polarization survey indicates elevated chargeability zones<br \/>\nat depth.<\/p>\n<p>The western<br \/>\ntarget is a partially tested glacial till covered area where regional magnetics<br \/>\nsuggests a faulted offset of the Mount Polley Intrusive complex, which hosts<br \/>\nthe Mount Polley orebody. A thick till covered prospective area immediately<br \/>\neast of Imperial\u2019s depleted Pond and Southeast Zone pits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The claims cover 3,331 hectares adjacent to the north and east boundaries of Imperial&rsquo;s Mount Polley Mine in central British Columbia, currently on care and maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2849,369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145956,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145955\/revisions\/1145956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}