Noronex Limited (ASX: NRX) has provided an exploration update on its copper projects in Namibia. 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 company’s tenements contain ~300km 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 Noronex’s current exploration efforts has been on the Witvlei project, comprising two exclusive prospecting licences (EPLs 7028 and 7029) covering 390km2 that is prospective for sedimentary Cu-Ag mineralization. Recent drilling has commenced to define the project’s Daheim prospect and to expand the known resources.
An initial two-hole diamond programme has been drilled to test the width and extent of the parallel mineralized horizons in the central portion of the Daheim prospect which has to date intercepted copper across a 1km strike from west to east.
One hole intersected several visible copper horizons with malachite and chrysocolla in the top of the hole, native copper, and cuprite zones above deeper primary chalcopyrite and chalcocite sulphide mineralization.
Results include:
Hole 23DHDD001
- 135m @0.33% Cu from 44m including 14m @1.1 % Cu, 7m @0.5% Cu, and 2m @1.1% Cu
The hole crosses at right angles and the following two holes are 60m apart, demonstrating the significant width and strike of the mineralized structural corridor.
Hole 22DHRC04
- 153m @0.4% Cu from 34m including 29m @0.7 % Cu, 4m @3.3% Cu and 10m @1.0%
Hole 22DHRC16
- 5m @0.8% Cu from 34m, 11m @0.4% Cu, 2m @1.3 % Cu and 2m @1.4 % Cu
Hole 23DHD001 is also approximately 200m south-east of:
- Hole 22DHRC006 reporting 27m @1.6% Cu including 6m @ 2.9% Cu
To find out more, please visit www.noronexlimited.com
