Heritage mine still has it for Mount Isa East

The latest report from recent exploration on the Mount Isa East project lease shows continuing promise. Cooper Metals’ Mount Isa East copper-gold project covers more than 1300sq km of tenure, with numerous historical workings. Rock chip assays have been received from the south-west of the project with results of up to 15.75 per cent copper from hydrothermal breccia at the historical Wonder Mine. It builds on the previously announced results from the north-east of the lease, which included assays up to 35.3 percent copper and 7.96 g/t gold. Cooper Metals Wonder Mine sulphide-rich rock with 7.33 percent Copper The company is reporting that Wonder Mine has evidence of fresh sulphides mined at depth, assaying up to 7.33 per cent, with old workings extending over 100m strike length. The results from Cooper’s initial field work at the Mount Isa East project reaffirmed the company’s strong belief in the potential for the project to host significant new copper-gold discoveries, said Cooper Metals managing director Ian Warland. “Evidence of fresh sulphide-rich rocks at some of the historical mines, containing visible chalcopyrite and pyrite is encouraging evidence for the presence of potentially significant primary mineralisation under the supergene ore and the added confidence that modern geophysics should provide an excellent tool for optimising drill targets,” Mr Warland said. “These latest results, along with those reported by Cooper in early December, are providing early areas of focus for our initial exploration efforts. “Cooper is planning further field work including geophysics and geochemistry, as a priority to better define drill targets at the Mount Isa East Project. I look forward to updating the market with the Project progress in the coming weeks." In other results: Rock chips up to 10.95 per cent copper, 0.26g/t gold and 2.8g/t silver returned from the Blue Mantle historical open cut, which also has evidence of fresh sulphides mined at depth, including 1.58 percent copper from rock chip Confirmation of significant historical workings at Big Hill Mine with about 140m long open-pit development, with 2.23 per cent copper in rock chips taken from spoil material Numerous copper and or gold occurrences at Mount Isa East suggest strong potential for multiple favourable structural and or lithological settings to host significant copper-gold mineralisation Ground EM and further geochemical sampling planned for King Solomon and Python prospects. Wonder Mine The Wonder Mine comprises three vertical shafts about 90m apart with a shallow open cut between the shafts. Mineralisation consists of iron-oxide gossan over supergene copper mineralisation, with evidence of a sulphide rich zone at depth. Copper said the Queensland Government's GeoResGlobe database did not record any historical drilling at Wonder Mine, nor was there any evidence on the ground for historical drill collars. The company listed on the ASX in November with a mission to rapidly advance its copper and gold projects in Queensland and Western Australia.

Heritage mine still has it for Mount Isa East

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