Noronex says drilling from the Fiesta Project, in the Kalahari Copper Belt in Namibia, is returning numerous highly encouraging intercepts.
The Fiesta Project lies on the western closure of a domal structure at the prospective NPF-D’Kar contact.
The anomalous intercepts appear to have many hallmarks of the deposits defined in Botswana over 400 km to the east, including the Khoemacau Copper Project.
Several steeply dipping sheets of mineralisation have been defined, now spanning over 4.5 kilometres and corresponding to several shear zones.
Copper mineralisation is hosted as disseminated chalcocite in a sequence of shales and siltstones of the D’Kar sediments, which is hard to distinguish visually in drill chips. Minor oxidation to malachite is noted in shallower zones with lower silver.
Noronex Chief Geologist Bruce Hooper says extending the Fiesta mineralisation by over half a kilometre with such impressive copper and silver results right to the end of the hole is a major step forward in defining the potential size of this system.
“Our next step will be to undertake diamond drilling to test the full width and style of mineralisation, as well as seeking to further extend the strike as the system remains completely open to the west.”
South32 is funding the drilling programme as part of an earn-in agreement.
