Cooper Metals has intersected semi massive sulphides 11 metres downhole at King Solomon 1 and confirmed a strongly mineralised breccia zone in the central plunging shoot of the copper-gold prospect, part of its large Mt Isa East landholdings in Queensland’s North West Minerals Province.
Two of four diamond holes are now finished for the current campaign, directed at providing important structural and geochemical data from three plunging shoots of higher-grade mineralisation found in last year’s RC program.
The new data along with that from a planned DHEM survey will be used for the next campaign, designed for deeper holes to test for depth extensions on the plunging shoots.
“The drill hole was targeting the central plunging Cu-Au shoot near to where RC hole 22MERC016 intersected 8m @ 4.3% Cu & 0.14g/t Au. Geological logging and sampling continue to better understand the mineralisation controls and potential for mineralisation to extend at depth,” Cooper Managing Director Ian Warland said.
“The drilling has around a week to go and we will provide an update to the market as results come to hand.”
Forward plan
After drilling wraps up, next comes assays, interpretation and DHEM surveys over the completed holes ahead of the next campaign at King Solomon and RC testing of regional targets across the greater project.
Past drilling at King Solomon intersected copper-gold mineralisation over 650 metres of strike length, and the three higher grade south-easterly plunging shoots remain open at depth.
IP surveys have also indicated a chargeability anomaly at depth at King Solomon, and Cooper have a maiden campaign ready to run over five recently extended prospects next month and continue working its way through an extensive pipeline of Mt Isa targets.
Bullish calls on copper demand are much easier to find than new resources, and the Queensland Government is backing in its northwest to be at the heart of its mineral future.
