Empire Metals release soil and sampling results at its Pitfield copper project

Highlights:

• Empire’s exploration team have completed two field campaigns, collecting soil and rock samples as well as surface mapping of geological features.
• Sampling has confirmed an historic copper-in-soil anomaly associated with the Mt Scratch workings and extended this anomaly over a 4 km distance south of the workings, trending along the western margin of the highly magnetic stratigraphic units.
• The soil and rock sampling results add further evidence that Pitfield has the potential to contain multiple sediment-hosted stratabound copper (SSC) deposits lying within what may be a Giant copper mineralised system. • Several of the rock samples collected produced stellar results including:
  • 17.88% Cu and 125.46 g/t Ag (Sample PMR009).
  • 4.63% Cu and 7.15 g/t Ag (Sample PMR008).
  • 0.65% Cu and 3.68 g/t Ag (Sample PMR012).
• The third and final field phase of initial geological mapping and soil sampling programme is now underway.
• Additional soil sampling and reconnaissance dipole – dipole induced polarisation (DD-IP) geophysical surveying are expected to be completed in 1Q23 with a view to expediting a maiden drill programme at Pitfield to evaluate the economic potential of SSC targets defined by the current work.

Shaun Bunn, Managing Director, said:

“I am delighted to provide an update on our emerging giant copper exploration project at Pitfield, where our recent geochemical sampling has confirmed highly anomalous values of copper, silver and other base metals over a 4 km extent to the south of the historical Mt Scratch copper mine. The field mapping and rock sampling has verified the soil anomaly by locating extraordinarily high-grade samples of copper and silver, with one sample reporting nearly 18% Cu and 125 g/t Ag. These results bring us a step closer to confirming our previous belief of Pitfield containing a potential giant copper mineral system. This discovery is happening at a crucial time in the world’s transition to a more electric future, which is largely reliant on copper production, with substantial copper deficits forecast in the coming years.

“The detailed technical interpretation of the recent DD-IP survey results is also expected soon, and I look forward to updating the market further on how these additional results will provide targets for an initial drill programme across this large copper-anomalous area.”

Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/30012023/empire-metals-release-soil-and-sampling-results-at-its-pitfield-copper-project/