Horetzky Copper Project
— British Columbia, Canada
Project Summary
- District-Scale Opportunity: The project covers 5,057 hectares across 11 mineral claims located in the Babine Porphyry Copper Belt, one of British Columbia’s most prolific copper districts.
- World-Class Analogs: The geological setting is directly analogous to major deposits in the belt, including the past-producing Bell and Granisle mines, as well as significant deposits at Duke, Morrison, and NAK.
- Strategic Acquisition: Northern Lights optioned the property from veteran prospector Bernie Kreft in October 2024.
- Porphyry System: Alteration on the property follows a classic porphyry pattern, featuring a magnetic potassic core that grades outward into phyllic and propylitic domains.
Investment Highlights
- The site hosts a compelling ~3.0 km² copper-in-soil anomaly, with numerous samples exceeding 1,000 ppm Cu and historical samples reaching up to 10,000 ppm.
- The copper anomaly coincides with a ~3 km x 2 km strong positive magnetic signature and remains open to the southeast and southwest, indicating a large mineral system.
- Historical diamond drilling by Hecla Mining (1973) encountered copper mineralization in every hole, with assays returning up to 4,370 ppm Cu over 0.91 meters and 1,345 ppm Cu over 10.67 meters.
- Historical holes were associated with widespread phyllic and propylitic alteration, suggesting they were collared outside the high-grade shell of the porphyry system, pointing to significant upside potential.
Exploration Status
- Fully Permitted: On July 23, 2025, the Company was granted a 5-year Multi-Year Area Based (MYAB) permit authorizing advanced exploration, including geophysical surveying, trenching, and the drilling of up to 100 holes.
- Data Consolidation: Northern Lights has digitized all datasets from a 58-year exploration history (1967-2024), consolidating geochemistry, geophysics, and assay certificates from previous operators like Rio Algom and Hecla Mining.
- Recent Validation: Results from the 2025 program confirm the presence of a multi-phase hydrothermal system consistent with porphyry style mineralization. Recent 3D magnetic inversion modelling differentiates multiple intrusive phases and indicates an intrusion extending more than 2.5 km from surface.
- 2026 Update: Following the completion of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, and the integration of all available historical exploration data into the Company’s geological model, an airborne MobileMT survey was completed. This additional dataset provides a further layer of technical support for the Company’s porphyry copper exploration model and is expected to significantly enhance the refinement and prioritization of future drill targets.