RE: I googled CCZ today26 Apr 2021 13:35
Castillo Copper – ground exploration work to re-start, Buy
By HotStockRockets | Saturday 24 April 2021
Castillo Copper (CCZ) has announced a further update on imminent exploration work at the Mt Oxide project in the Mt Isa copper-belt district of Queensland, Australia.
The latest is that, following a review of historical reports undertaken by BHP and Mt Isa Mines, it considers there enhanced Arya Prospect potential.
That is particularly with a BHP 1997 tenement report having identified 11 anomalies worthy of attention with ground geophysics and rock chip sampling only completed on four and that, using aggregated historical rock-chip assay data - up to 1.84% Cu (Mt Isa Mines), Castillo’s geology team has created a maiden copper heat map which seamlessly reconciles with geophysical findings to boost confidence in Arya drill-test targets. It notes “drilling team schedule to return to site to commence work at the Big One Deposit then move on to the Arya Prospect”.
That is with end-December cash of Australian$3.1 million and the wet season drawing to a close, so within weeks the company is looking to undertake a geophysical survey at the Big One Deposit focusing on extending known mineralisation and uncovering additional anomalies before a next phase of drilling commences.
MD Simon Paull emphasises “a significant pipeline of copper-focused exploratory work ahead, coinciding with an impending global supply deficit”. Such a demand/supply outlook should help sentiment and these shares were 4p+ earlier this year as assay results saw the company emphasise “there is now compelling evidence that Big One Deposit is a scalable, shallow, high-grade copper-cobalt system”.
With significant exploration work about to re-start against that backdrop, we see good potential from the current £26.5 million market capitalisation.
The shares are already up from the 2.3p offer price of our previous update to 2.6p, we continue to target a return to 4p or more and the stance remains buy.