Golden Deeps Limited’s latest advance at its Graceland prospect follows a succession of exploration breakthroughs that have steadily transformed the company’s Otavi Mountain Land projects into one of Namibia’s most promising critical metals frontiers.
Earlier exploration across the Otavi belt—particularly between 2023 and 2024—focused on the Abenab and Nosib deposits, where Golden Deeps defined high-grade vanadium, lead, zinc, copper, gallium, and germanium mineralisation in historic mine zones.
At Abenab, drilling confirmed extensions of the historic workings that once produced ore grading 18% lead, 5% zinc, and 0.5% vanadium.
Subsequent metallurgical test work demonstrated the ability to generate a high-value V-Pb-Zn concentrate, laying the groundwork for further project development.
The company then shifted focus toward the Graceland area, initially identified through geophysical and satellite datasets suggesting strong alteration halos similar to those surrounding the nearby Tsumeb and Kombat deposits.
Early field reconnaissance in late 2023 uncovered copper- and silver-bearing gossans at surface, prompting systematic soil sampling in early 2024.
These preliminary assays returned impressive results, including 1.26% copper, 56 g/t silver and elevated zinc and lead values across several traverses, confirming Graceland’s potential as a central polymetallic system.
By mid-2024, follow-up rock-chip and channel sampling had delineated the first Gossan 1 and Gossan 2 trends—high-grade mineralised structures showing both oxide and sulphide mineralisation in limonitic outcrops. Mapping revealed that these gossans traced along a northeast-southwest structural corridor consistent with the broader Otavi mineralisation trends.
Early-stage geological modelling suggested the mineralisation could represent near-surface expressions of deeper sulphide-rich “Tsumeb-style” pipes, famous for their complex mix of copper, lead, zinc, silver, and germanium.
It was on the back of these findings that Golden Deeps initiated the 2025 Graceland expansion programme, designed to extend and connect the gossan trends through new soil and rock-chip sampling, geophysical work, and upcoming drilling.
Now, the company has reported another significant advance at the prospect, where new assays have extended the copper-silver-zinc-lead-
Fresh samples—returning up to 3.12% zinc and 1.94% lead in sample A6GS069 and 46.5 g/t silver and 0.4% copper in A6GS073—extend the high-grade Gossan 1 and 2 zones toward the northeast.
Golden Deeps Chief Executive Jon Dugdale said the new data confirm that Gossan 2 merges with Gossan 1 north of the Gossan 1 East outcrop, an area already renowned for its spectacular grades, including 42% copper and 154 g/t silver.
Channel-sampling results are still pending from this highly mineralised zone, which previously yielded assays of up to 7 792 g/t silver, 47.3% copper and 224 g/t germanium.
At the same time, field crews have begun an extensive induced polarisation (IP) and resistivity survey to detect near-surface and deeper “Tsumeb-style” sulphide bodies.
The Tsumeb mine, just 20 kilometres away, historically produced 27 million tonnes grading 4.3% copper, 10% lead, 3.5% zinc, 95 g/t silver and 50 g/t germanium, serving as a geological analogue for the Graceland system.
Golden Deeps is now integrating three-dimensional satellite imagery, elevation data, and IP inversion modelling to finalise drill targets. With rigs already identified for the prospect’s rugged terrain, the company plans to transition swiftly into drill testing once geophysical and channel-sampling results are complete.
Graceland forms part of Golden Deeps’ 440-square-kilometre landholding in the Otavi Mountain Land metallogenic belt—host to some of Namibia’s richest polymetallic deposits.
The company’s expanding portfolio of copper, silver, zinc, lead, vanadium, gallium, germanium, and antimony projects positions it as a leading explorer in the global race for critical metals vital to renewable energy and advanced manufacturing.
