NovaCopper Starts its Exploration Activities at Upper Kobuk Mineral Project

NovaCopper Inc. (TSX:NCQ) has started its field exploration activities at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Project in northwest Alaska.

As quoted in the press release:

The 2012 plan targets three principal areas for significant resource drilling:

• The South Reef zone at Bornite where exploration in 2011 encountered very significant thickness of high-grade copper mineralization;

• The historically explored Ruby Creek zone at Bornite where an initial resource estimate is expected by the end of the month;

Click here to read the NovaCopper Inc. (TSX:NCQ)  press release.