RE: Investor Presentation28 Aug 2021 14:28
STRUMMER THIS IS THE WAY I SEE IT.
“We have got copper, we know we have”
The first drill hole is testing historic grades down to 500m which is a 200m depth extension to historic drilling. The copper we ‘have’ in the 50 year old shallower drills come from a copper porphyry system lower down (think tooth diagram, if you are unsure the ‘tooth’ is important here). The red line in slide 21 of Tuesdays presentation is the target depth of 500m and as DP pointed out he is ‘very interested’ to see what is there.
From the second set of core pics in the same presentation (landscape frame) DP was keen to point out the two distinct types of mineralisation observed.
Vein hosted copper in the white quartz core and carbonates, specifically magnetite, in the pinkish rock, where the copper is dispersed due to the higher temperatures within the system. THIS IS ALL IN THE HOLE DOWN TO DEPTHS OF UP TO 300m. So It looks like we are encountering higher grades and high temperature mineralisation as depth increases. It seems extremely likely, with all the copper above the high strength zone, and the cores we have encountered to date in the current hole, that there is an intact Copper Porphyry system at depth and we are about to (may well already have) confirm that.
Don’t forget all the stream samples, soil samples, the bulls eye, the Helimag. Although you may not understand some of the detail (it gets pretty technical) the explanation by DP and a load of material I have pinned should help.
Copper Porphyry Deposits are large and this one is 6km x 3km with a 3km x 2Km sweet spot.
Of course one drill will not prove the exact extent but the confirmation of the system is a very important 1st step, followed by another 4 historic confirmation holes which will also go deeper. Then 4 step out holes. All of this is still a “tiny tiny tiny” part of the structure.
The 1st hole is proof of concept/geology here, which is why we are positioned over the crest of the high mag for this drill.
THE REST WILL BE HISTORY IMO.
Effectively this is exactly the same as an oil drill. Where they have just ‘cased the well and are poised above the reservoir. Cores from the high mag material at 500m are flow tests. Step out is the same.
Oil can sometimes actually be water as it gives the same seismic readings. High Strength at Copperhead could have been just rock but I THINK the cores we saw on Tuesday say otherwise.