Good results are spurring Superior Resources to expand its maiden Cockie Creek drill program, taking holes deeper and adding new holes.

Cockie Creek is one of several copper porphyry prospects within the company’s Greenvale project in North Queensland.

The latest drillholes have intersected strong visually observed copper sulphide mineralisation for significant distances outside historically reported mineralisation envelope.

A previously unknown second zone of mineralisation located north of and parallel to the historical copper zone has been intersected in deeper holes and significantly broadens with depth.

“Cockie Creek is turning out to be a very interesting and exciting porphyry system,” Superior managing director Peter Hwang said.

“We didn’t expect to encounter the significant amounts of strong copper mineralisation that has been intersected outside the known mineralisation envelope. The latest holes have also extended the mineralised zone down dip.

“As a result of our most recent observations, we are extending the planned depths of most holes in the current program as well as adding a series of new holes to test targets to the west of the historical copper zone.”

Superior Resources sees significant potential to expand the historical mineral resource estimate of 13Mt at 0.42 per cent copper.