Vizsla Copper Corp. has reported that it has commenced drilling at its 11 630 hectare, 100% controlled Copperview copper project (or 'Copperview'), located approximately 40 km north of Princeton in south-central British Columbia.

Copperview is considered prospective for porphyry-related copper-gold mineralisation.

Highlights

  • Inaugural Copperview Drilling: The drill programme will consist of over 2000 m and will focus on the M5 target that has been identified through geophysical surveys and has remained untested.

  • Poplar Drilling Complete: Phase 2 (summer) drilling at the Poplar copper-molybdenum porphyry project in central BC is now complete with over 8800 m drilled across 17 drill holes along the Thira alteration corridor. Results from Phase 2 are pending. Phase 1 (spring) drilling consisted of over 11 200 m, bringing the total drilling at Poplar for 2026 to approximately 20 000 m.

“The launch of our inaugural drill programme at Copperview will bring us to approximately 40 000 meters of total drilling across our portfolio of copper projects this year” commented Craig Parry, Chair and CEO of the Company.

“This fully funded programme will focus on the recently identified M5 target area, which we have been very eager to test since it was identified through systematic pre-drilling work, especially given it’s proximity to Kodiak Copper’s Gate Zone discovery, just to the south. With additional assay results anticipated from our recent drill programs at Poplar and our Palmer project in southeast Alaska, we look forward to continued news flow through the remainder of 2026 and into 2027.”

Inaugural Drilling at Copperview

The fall 2026 drill programme at the Copperview Project will consist of over 2000 m of core drilling focused on the recently identified and previously undrilled M5 target. Drilling will evaluate a footprint of approximately 1500 m by 800 m across the M5 target.

The till-concealed M5 target, largely defined on the basis of ground and airborne geophysical data, comprises a broadly northwest-southeast oriented >20 mv/v chargeability-high anomaly that spans 2.5 by 1.4 km.

The core of the chargeability-high anomaly is spatially associated with a strong conductivity-high (resistivity-low) anomaly observed in ground IP data as well as the recently compiled MobileMT survey data and a marked break (magnetic-low anomaly) in north-trending regional-scale magnetic-high lineaments.

The M5 target is along trend and 6.5 km north of Kodiak Copper’s Gate Zone discovery, which is, part of the MPD project. Porphyry-related copper and gold mineralisation at the Gate Zone discovery is spatially associated with a strong chargeability-high coincident with a similar break in the regional-scale magnetic-high lineament.

Two diamond drill rigs have now mobilised to site and are advancing the first two drill holes of the programme.