American West Metals Limited (ASX: AW1) has obtained further outstanding visual results for another four diamond drill holes completed by the company at the Storm Copper Project on Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada.
“The drilling at the 2750N Zone continues to deliver spectacular results,” Managing Director, Dave O’Neill, said.
“We are looking for continuity and volume for a potential resource and that’s exactly what we are seeing.
“The results show strong continuity between the thick historical copper intersections at the 2750N Zone where we are aiming to define a shallow copper resource that can support a low-footprint direct shipping ore (DSO) mining proposal.
“Drilling at Storm is continuing on the 2750N Zone resource definition program and will shortly start on the exploration phase of the current campaign. This will test targets that are look alikes for the 2750N Zone as well as deeper targets that may represent the potential source of the near surface mineralisation.
“We look forward to reporting more news as drilling progresses.”
Latest drill holes have intersected wide intervals of visual copper mineralisation, including;
o ST22-03 has intersected 74.6m of mineralisation including 15.13m of breccia and massive copper sulphides over multiple intervals
o ST22-04 has intersected 43.7m of mineralisation including 24.5m of breccia and massive copper sulphides over multiple intervals
o ST22-05 has intersected 65m of mineralisation including 25.2m of breccia and massive copper sulphides over multiple intervals
o ST22-06 has intersected 59m of mineralisation including 15m of breccia and massive copper sulphides over multiple intervals
All intersections of copper sulphides are within 100m from surface, indicating a significant volume of shallow mineralisation.
Drill holes ST22-03, ST22-04, ST22-05 and ST22-06 were completed in the 2750N Zone and have all successfully intersected thick zones of breccia and massive sulphides (mostly chalcocite) hosted within much broader intervals of vein and fracture style copper mineralisation.
A total of 789m of drilling has been completed to date on the shallow and high-grade 2750N Zone, with the drilling continuing to confirm the continuity and thickness of the ore system.
The mineralisation encountered within the latest drill holes and shows some similar zonation of the copper bearing minerals with chalcocite being the dominant mineral, and with chalcopyrite, bornite, cuprite and minor oxides being present within certain intervals.
The 2750N Zone is the focus of initial resource definition drilling at Storm with the objective to define resources for a potential open-pit direct shipping ore (DSO) mining operation. Initial ore sorting test work on mineralisation from Storm generated a DSO product grading more than 53% Cu.
The combination of high-grade and shallow mineralisation at Storm provides a potential pathway to a very low footprint, ESG sensitive mining operation that produces an exceptionally high-value product with low capital and operating costs.
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