Noronex drilling encountering strong, veining and shearing copper mineralisation at its Helm prospect is moving west to the nearby Daheim site on the Namibian side of the Kalahari Copper Belt in Southern Africa.
A diamond rig will drill a 400m diamond hole testing the central core of recently defined mineralisation.
The Company said the deep hole is to test potential high-grade mineralisation in the structure’s fold nose, crossing long copper intersections, which included 4m @ 3.3 % Cu and 10m @ 1.0 % Cu.
A further diamond hole 500m to the west will extend the known mineralisation and test new region where 22DHRC024, drilled last year, we reported 3m @ 2.1 % Cu and 3m @ 0.8 % Cu,” Noronex Chief Geologist Bruce Hooper said.
About the Exploration Package
Noronex’s exploration package in Namibia covers ~7,000 km2 of the highly prospective but relatively underexplored Kalahari Copper Belt, which runs from central Namibia to northern Botswana. The tenements contain ~300 kilometres of strike length targeting the key NPF-D’Kar formation contact point where most copper deposits occur on the Kalahari Copper Belt.
The focus of the current exploration efforts has been on the Witvlei project, comprising two Exclusive Prospecting Licences (EPLs 7028 and 7029) covering 390 km2 that are prospective for sedimentary Cu-Ag mineralisation. Recent drilling has defined the Daheim Prospect and testing extensions to the Malachite Pan deposit, which contains an existing JORC (2012) resource.
Planning is underway to drill Noronex’s extensive claim package to the east of Witvlei (proximate to the Namibia/Botswana border), including the domal structure at the Helm prospect and the Humpback Project.
Daheim Planned Drilling
An initial diamond hole program is planned to test the number and extent of parallel mineralised horizons developed in the central portion of the Daheim prospect.
The drill program planning has utilised detailed geological interpretations from the most recent drilling at the prospect. This hole will establish the downdip continuity of the system. The planned hole will cross 22DHRC04 over 100m southwest where hole 22DHRC016 reported (ASX Release 4 April 2022 and 29th Aug 2022) intercepts of:
- Hole 22DHRC04 reporting 153m @ 0.4 % Cu from 34m including 29m @ 0.7 % Cu, 4m @ 3.3% Cu and 10m @1.0%
- Hole 22DHRC16 reporting 5m @ 0.8% Cu from 34m, 11m @ 0.4% Cu, 2m @ 1.3 % Cu and 2m @ 1.4 % Cu
