Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ) has received high-grade copper assay results from its initial surface sampling program at the Fiery Creek Copper Project in the Mt Isa copper belt, in northern Queensland.
The first-phase sampling program has provided initial confirmation of the Project’s exploration potential. Results come from the priority Piper prospect in the north-west of the Project area, and include multiple very high-grade copper samples along with high-grade silver results.
“The multiple high-grade copper results, along with the silver and antimony mineralisation returned at the Piper target from our initial surface sampling program provide early confirmation of the Fiery Creek Project’s exploration potential,” Managing Director, Glenn Grayson, said.
“These results, in conjunction with historic exploration results, help provide key base-line data for our next phase of field work. Ground-based geophysical surveys are planned in the coming weeks, with the aim of defining targets for a maiden drilling program.
“Also of significant, wider importance is that the data generated from soil sampling to date indicates strong copper anomalism across the Fiery Creek Project, beyond the initial Piper and Fiery Creek targets.”
Sample rocks from the Piper prospect highlight the potential for copper mineralisation with supporting antimony, sliver and arsenic (As), with an outcropping cross-cutting quartz breccia mapped for 700m. The breccia is terminated by a tertiary creek system to the east. This is an excellent example of the prospectivity of Fiery Creek, and also underlines the need for appropriate base data to help interpret other prospective structural traps for copper under cover.
Aruma also completed sampling at the Fiery Creek prospect in the south of the Project area.
Aruma recently completed the acquisition of the Fiery Creek Copper Project (EPM 27879). It has implemented a systematic exploration strategy at the Project, and initial mapping and surface sampling programs have commenced, with the first results reported in this announcement. This work is planned to continue across the project area.
