QMines successfully extends Mt Chalmers copper-gold project in Queensland
Published by Isabelle Keltie,
Editorial Assistant
Global Mining Review,
QMines Ltd. has announced that ongoing drilling at the company’s flagship Mt Chalmers project, located 17 km north east of Rockhampton, Queensland, has successfully intersected semi massive sulphide mineralisation between Mt Chalmers and the Woods Shaft deposits.
Highlights
- Drilling successfully extends Mt Chalmers deposit to the South West.
- Base metal sulphides intersected in all new drill holes.
- Samples now at ALS laboratory for analysis with results expected shortly.
- Drilling to continue along improving strike extensions.
- Final Electromagnetic plate modelling for new priority drill targets nearing completion.
Recent drilling has concentrated on the prospective southwest corridor between the Mt Chalmers West Lode and the Woods Shaft deposit. Drilling is proceeding systematically away from the West lode towards the south west and continues to intersect semi massive sulphides and associated base metal exhalites along with the underlying copper sulphide stringer zone.
Sphalerite and galena mineralisation in each drillhole indicates that the semi massive sulphide envelope is improving towards the southwest and upcoming drill holes will test this exciting trend.
Eight drill holes for a total 1096 m have been drilled during May and June, with six of these holes targeting the lightly drilled southwest side of the West Pit (holes MCRC 057 059 MCRC 061063. Two additional holes have targeted the eastern extension of the Resource (holes MCRC 056 MCRC 060).
The Company was unable to complete the West Pit extensional drilling last year due to the onset of the wet season. Shallow drilling by Geopeko in the 1980's stopped short of the interpreted extensions to mineralisation on the southwest side of the West Pit. Recent drilling by the Company down to 170 m has intersected mineralisation downhole and below the current wireframes.
Samples from all drill holes have been delivered to the ALS laboratory in Brisbane for analysis. Drilling is continuing to test for further extensions of mineralisation in this area.
Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/22062023/qmines-successfully-extends-mt-chalmers-copper-gold-project-in-queensland/
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