American West Metals (ASX: AW1) continues to accelerate summer drilling programme at the Storm Copper Project on Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada, with more than 4,450m now completed.
“We are very pleased to provide an update on the Storm drilling program which is gaining strong momentum. More than 4,450m and 30 drill holes have now been completed since drilling resumed earlier this month, highlighting the exceptional productivity of the Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling rigs,” Managing Director, Dave O’Neill, said.
“We have received the visual results for 16 of the recently completed drill holes and every drill hole has hit visual copper sulphides. This success rate is similar to which was achieved during last year’s drilling programme, demonstrating the excellent consistency of copper mineralisation.
“The drilling in and around the Cyclone Deposit continues to highlight the continuity and growth potential of the resource with every drill hole to date intersecting thick intervals of visual copper sulphides.
“Drilling to the south- west of the deposit, and outside of the known copper resource, has intersected a thick interval of very strong copper sulphides. This is exactly what the resource geologists will want to see as we look to expand the resource.
“The initial resource definition drilling at Lightning Ridge has extended the envelope of the known copper mineralisation and confirmed the geometry of the high-grade copper zones. The drilling demonstrates that there is significant potential to convert the 2023 discoveries into resources which will help to quickly grow the copper endowment of Storm.
“We will continue to provide regular updates as the drilling program and other exploration activities progress.”