Aruma Resources (ASX:AAJ) continues to enhance the exploration potential within the Fiery Creek Copper Project in Queensland, following completion of gravity and induced polarisation geophysical surveys.
The company is planning a phase one drilling program at the Piper prospect to evaluate two recently identified induced polarisation (IP) conductor anomalies alongside the interpreted gravity and structural anomalies.
Drilling is planned to begin at Piper for late Q2 2025, following completion of stakeholder and heritage surveys.
A site visit is also planned for late next month, which will include a reconnaissance sampling program at the Piper and Eagle prospects. The program is designed to further enhance the geological understanding of the target areas.
This news follows after Aruma found the interpreted structures from the recently completed surveys are coincident with multiple, broad copper intersections from historical drilling at Fiery Creek.
Managing Director Grant Ferguson says the Piper prospect is an “exciting” drill-ready target for the company.
“The company’s ongoing assessment of the project continues to enhance the exploration potential of the Piper target, and the wide, near-surface historic copper intersections reported in this announcement further validates this,” Ferguson says.
“That these historic intersections at Piper are coincident with our high-grade copper, silver, and antimony surface sampling results, and the IP and gravity anomalies defined from our recent geophysical surveys provide a further layer of confidence to our exploration model for the project.”
Historical drilling results from Piper include 44m @ 0.2% copper, 26m @ 0.14% copper, and 14m @0.15% copper.
Aruma Resources is a junior mineral explorer focused on discovering and developing prospective projects across Australia. The company’s project portfolio is considered prospective for copper, uranium, gold, lithium, and rare earths.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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