Drilling Out Nanadie Well Copper-Gold Resource
Cyprium Metals Limited (ASX:CYM) has had continued success with its Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling programme at the Nanadie Well Copper-Gold Project near Meekatharra in Western Australia.
Executive Director, Barry Cahill, said this programme continues Cyprium’s strategy to drill out the resource at the Nanadie Well Copper-Gold project.
“We are pleased to provide an update of the 3,500 metre RC drill programme at the Nanadie Well Copper-Gold Project,” Mr Cahill said.
“Drilling to date has seen visible copper supergene mineralisation in the RC chips such as malachite, azurite and chrysocolla. The presence of these visible minerals is very exciting as we submit samples to the assay laboratory for analysis.
“Supergene mineralisation is generally, easily leachable with acid, which complements the nearby Hollandaire mineral resource, which is a massive sulphide orebody, that has already demonstrated its acid generating capacity.
“We will eagerly await the results of this programme to define the extent of the supergene mineralisation at the Nanadie Well.
“These results will be used to generate a JORC 2012 compliant resource at the Nanadie Well Copper-Gold project. Cyprium is continuing to work on expanding our mineral resource base for inclusion in the Murchison Copper-Gold scoping study.”
Near-surface supergene at the Nanadie Well Copper-Gold Project is open along strike to the north and south, as well as to the west. The supergene mineralisation does not outcrop and is covered by 1m to 25m of transported and unconsolidated sediments in the project area.
Preliminary investigations of the Nanadie Well deposit data indicates potential for supergene mineralisation over the full 750m of strike currently defined. The supergene has mineralised intersections for copper, gold and silver, with the previously drilled RC rock chips containing oxide copper minerals such as malachite, which rapidly leachable when treated with sulphuric acid,
The supergene mineralisation is also trending north-west, as tested by NWRC21031. Strong visual copper oxide mineralisation was intersected between 9m to 11m and 20m to 21m.
Strong visual copper oxide mineralisation was intersected between 23m to 28m.
