Golden Deeps is now working to advance Central Otavi quickly by combining further sampling, geophysical surveys and drilling in the months ahead.
The company has identified two mineralised corridors within Target Area 6 of its Central Otavi Critical Metals Project in Namibia, where recent rock chip sampling has returned exceptionally high grades of copper, zinc, silver, lead, and germanium.
The results come from outcropping gossans and sulphide zones within a 1 km x 800 m area in the Otavi Mountain Land, about 20 km south of the historic Tsumeb mine.
At Gossan 1 (G1), sample highlights include 38.3% copper, 3.6% zinc, 1,130 g/t silver and 16 g/t germanium, with another sample yielding 31.7% copper, 14.9% zinc and 209 g/t silver.
The average of five key samples at G1 returned 18.6% copper, 18.4% zinc, 427 g/t silver and 20 g/t germanium. G1 is located along a 600-metre corridor of mineralisation that remains open for expansion.
At Gossan 2 (G2), approximately 400 metres northwest of G1, rockchip sampling produced 32.4% zinc, 34.1% lead, 87 g/t silver and 97 g/t germanium. One sample taken 50 metres northeast of G2 returned 29% copper and 2,473 g/t silver.
The average of three G2 rockchip samples was 25.3% zinc, 23.1% lead, 119 g/t silver and 63 g/t germanium, with the mineralised zone extending over 800 metres.
Golden Deeps is currently conducting trenching and channel sampling of the prominent gossan outcrops to determine the thickness and continuity of mineralisation. Soil sampling has already been extended east and west of the known zones, and induced polarisation (IP) geophysics will be deployed next to detect deeper sulphide targets.
Drilling contractors are being engaged, and land access and track preparation are in place.
Golden Deeps acquired an 80% interest in the Central Otavi Critical Metals Project in early 2025.
The project is located in the highly prospective Otavi Mountain Land metallogenic belt, which hosts several historic high-grade polymetallic mines, including the Tsumeb and Kombat deposits.
Central Otavi spans multiple tenements with known zinc-lead-silver resources at Border, and advanced exploration prospects at Driehoek and Kaskara.
The area is known for its carbonate-hosted sulphide mineralisation enriched in copper, lead, zinc, silver, germanium, gallium, and antimony.
Golden Deeps CEO Jon Dugdale said the identification of these outcropping oxidised sulphide gossans — and the spectacular grades of copper, zinc, silver and lead, with high-grade germanium — demonstrates the potential for substantial, high-grade mineralised sulphide discoveries in multiple zones.
Dugdale added that the rockchip and soil sampling results have defined two strongly mineralised corridors within the 1 km x 800 m highly anomalous sampled area.
He further said the southern G1 Corridor is more than 600 metres long and has produced spectacular copper, zinc, and silver rock chip grades.
In contrast, the northern, G2 corridor, which is over 800 metres in strike length, has a high-grade zinc-lead-silver-germanium signature.
The presence of high-grade germanium is also of particular interest.
Significantly, this metal association and zonation is similar to the significant Tsumeb deposit, 20 km north of Area 6, which produced 27 million tonnes grading 4.3% copper, 10% lead, 3.5% zinc and 95 g/t silver historically.”
