GoldHaven Resources Corp. provided an update on the ongoing exploration activities at Smoke Mountain as a result of the discovery of a 2.5-kilometre-long Cu-Au-Zn-rich open-ended northeast trend on the property. GoldHaven's large 4,190 hectare Smoke Mountain property is strategically situated within an extensive 85 kilometre polymetallic belt that is highly prospective for gold-silver-zinc epithermal systems, porphyry copper-gold deposits, as well as gold and silver-rich magmatic-hydrothermal occurrences.

The property is road accessible from Houston via a series of gravel forest service roads off Highway 16. Exploration activity in the area has been renewed in this historic mining region, propelled by the ongoing expansion of advanced exploration projects and mines including: Universal Copper's Poplar project (18km NE) hosting 236Mt @ 0.37% Cu1; Surge Copper's Berg project (15km SW) with reserves of 238Mt @ 0.4% Cu; 0.05% Au2; Imperial Metals' Huckleberry project (26 km SE) containing 161Mt @ 0.48% Cu3. GoldHaven has contracted Dahrouge Geological Consulting Ltd. to carry out a 30-day fieldwork campaign (currently underway) which includes geological mapping, soil sampling, stream sediment sampling and prospecting/rock sampling.

Portable XRF is being deployed to increase the data turnaround with follow-up analytical work at ActLabs. The objective of this work is to expand the zones of known mineralization and define new exploration occurrences on the property. This will be followed by airborne LiDAR, MAG, Radiometrics and Z-Tipper Axis Electromagnetic (ZTEM) surveys.

Depending on results, additional work will include ground-based induced polarization surveys followed by drilling. The historic Central BC porphyry-epithermal belt is re-emerging as an important copper-gold-silver jurisdiction as evidenced by increased staking activity and exploration drilling. The region is quickly becoming known for its long mineralized drill intercepts including Universal Copper's 216m interval grading 0.54% CuEq (click here for release) and has the potential to host some of the copper-polymetallic discoveries in British Columbia.

In recent news, Surge Copper expanded their Ootsa project by 96% to a total of 439Mt grading 0.32% CuEq increasing their total mineralized inventory in the southern part of this belt to over 1 billion tonnes. These results in the immediate vicinity of GoldHaven's Smoke Mountain project showcase the exceptional regional endowment and metallogenic character of the Late Cretaceous arc rocks hosted within this belt. GoldHaven's exploration upside lies in the 2.5km long untested and under-explored alteration and mineralization trend currently being examined by field team at Smoke Mountain.