Noronex will in August kick off a major 7,000-metre Reverse Circulation (RC) drill campaign at its Humpback Copper Project in Namibia, aiming to unlock large-scale copper deposits along the Kalahari Copper Belt.
The program forms part of its FY26 exploration strategy under a US$3 million earn-in agreement with South32, which has already funded earlier phases including diamond drilling at the Fiesta prospect.
The new RC program will test domal structures—geological formations known to host some of the region’s most significant copper deposits, including Botswana’s Khoemacau and Banana Zone.
Planning is complete, and drilling will be carried out by Hammerstein Drilling, the same contractor that executed Noronex’s prior RC work.
Noronex Managing Director and CEO Victor Rajasooriar said the upcoming campaign will be transformative. “As the current diamond drilling at Fiesta wraps up and the rig relocates to Oosterwald, we are gearing up for a major new RC drilling program.
The second half of 2025 is shaping up as a transformational period for Noronex,” he said.
The company has just completed three diamond drill holes at the Fiesta prospect, with assays pending. Early results show copper mineralisation in the form of chalcocite, bornite, and chalcopyrite, and one intercept returned 45m at 0.80% Cu and 3g/t Ag from 144m.
The Fiesta project lies on a domal structure at the NPF-D’Kar contact—an ideal host for copper mineralisation.
Noronex will now move the diamond rig south to the newly granted Oosterwald licence (EPL 9932), where it will test an uneroded domal target identified in historical EM surveys by Sandfire Resources.
Meanwhile, at the Powerline Project, the RC program will drill into large anticlinal structures with known anomalous copper zones—building on historical drilling by Cupric Canyon, Antofagasta, and Sandfire.
Multiple targets will be tested at 2km spacing, chasing mineralisation along a 180km corridor of the prospective NPF-D’Kar contact.
The campaign could prove pivotal for Noronex as it advances one of Namibia’s most active copper exploration programs.
