Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. reported assay results from the 2022 diamond drill program at its Jean Marie project. Both holes drilled intersected significant intervals of copper mineralization and were successful in expanding the area of known copper mineralization along strike and at depth.

JM-22-01 was drilled approximately 100 metres to the west of historical drill hole 97-11 and was drilled to a depth of 400 metres. The hole was collared in Takla Volcanic rocks. Copper mineralization that was observed in the hole consisted of chalcopyrite and bornite finely disseminated in the Takla volcanic andesite and in quartz hematite veinlets.

A 13-meter-wide quartz-carbonate breccia zone was intercepted from 163 to 176 metres. Five to ten meter wide dykes of equigranular monzonite cross cut the Takla. Takla volcanic rock was intensely and variably biotitised, with the greatest intensity of alteration close to the contact with the equigranular monzonitic plutonic rocks at 223 meters depth.

Chalcopyrite in the Jean Marie intrusive monzonite was found in low angle quartz, hematite veinlets with K-feldspar selvages. JM-22-02 was drilled a further 100 metres to the northwest of JM22-01. This hole was drilled to a depth of 300 metres.

The highest-grade intercept was encountered in from 189 metres to 220 metres, where a 30-metre-wide quartz-carbonate hydrothermal breccia was intersected. This intercept represents a continuation of the high-grade mineralized breccia intercepted 200 metres to the east in hole J97-11. Mineralization in the breccia is found as massive chalcopyrite in the matrix as well as large angular clasts.

Takla volcanic rock was variably biotitised, chalcopyrite and bornite was disseminated in the Takla andesitic volcanic rock and in veinlets associated with hematite. The contact with the Jean Marie pluton was intercepted at 220 meters, below the quartz-carbonate breccia. Chalcopyrite in the Jean Marie intrusive monzonite was found in low angle quartz, hematite veinlets with K-feldspar selvages.