For investors, an intact system of this kind can significantly increase discovery scale, as the same hydrothermal engine can host both near surface high grade veins and deeper bulk tonnage copper.
At our Root & Cellar property, five gold silver +/- tellurium occurrences sit above and to the periphery of a copper molybdenum gold porphyry centre, forming an intact epithermal-porphyry system, rather than isolated showings.
This strategic increase strengthens our exposure to underexplored, district‑scale mineral systems and supports our goal of advancing large-scale and high‑grade copper‑gold opportunities.
We recently significantly expanded our exploration footprint in Newfoundland, growing our land position to approximately 420 km² covering multiple porphyry copper and epithermal gold targets.
Northern Shield shares exploration updates for its Root & Cellar and CSM properties in Newfoundland’s Avalon Terrane.
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This alkaline‑related epithermal system stands out on the Root & Cellar property, which hosts multiple Au–Ag–Te occurrences and is interpreted as an epithermal gold system surrounding a porphyry‑style copper center, within a historically underexplored district.
The Drop Zone at our Root & Cellar property delivered standout surface samples, including up to 45.5 g/t Au, 1,365 g/t Ag, and 700 ppm Te, identified from high‑silver and tellurium‑rich showings 2 km from the Conquest Zone.
There is a high resolution airborne magnetic survey underway by Prospector GeoSurveys at our new CSM properties in the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland.
This survey will identify targets for follow-up ground exploration.
We recently announced values up to 3.9% Pb, 4.0% Zn and 2.0% Cu from rock grab samples from the Creston Copper Target at our 100% owned Root & Cellar Property.
Stay tuned for the upcoming 3D-IP survey, which will be instrumental in imaging the target zone for drilling.
At the centre of this emerging district is our flagship Root & Cellar Property, where recent work has identified gold and copper mineralization that formed at the very top of the hydrothermal system 575 million years ago.
Northern Shield is building what it believes to be Canada's newest porphyry copper-gold district, hiding in plain sight on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland.
These well-defined targets will be tested in the next drill program. Importantly, the trends also point toward a second potential porphyry copper centre between the Braxton-Bradley Zone and the newly acquired Kelstone claims, opening up a compelling new exploration target.
At the Conquest Gold Zone on our 100%-owned Root & Cellar Project, new interpretation has identified three distinct gold events, with the highest grades defining coherent mineralized zones that align with geophysical anomalies.
Root & Cellar benefits from strong infrastructure: road access and just 10 minutes from Marystown, with a local workforce and deep-water port nearby.
Join Ian Bliss, CEO at Northern Shield for a high-impact update on a rapidly emerging copper-gold district in Newfoundland. With a 10x land expansion, new discoveries, and growing evidence of a large porphyry system at Root & Cellar, this is a story gaining real momentum.
Gold and copper was initially discovered at our Root & Cellar property by a local prospector in a hand-dug trench in 2012. Following our acquisition, we are the first company to conduct methodical exploration on the property.
Very few epithermal Au-Cu deposits have Tellurium. Why it matters: Te is a critical metal used in solar panels, semiconductors, advanced Li-Te batteries (experimental) and is rarer than gold (8x), mostly by-product of select epithermal deposits with the west reliant on imports
We are pleased to announce assay values of up to 3.9% Pb, 4.0% Zn and 2.0% Cu from grab samples from the Creston Copper Target, at our 100% owned Root & Cellar property.
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We have assembled a 400 km2 land position hosting multiple high-priority porphyry Cu-Mo-Au targets in Canada’s most underexplored copper and gold belt.