Kobrea Exploration (CSE:KBX) has mobilised field crews onsite at the Western Malargüe Copper projects in Argentina, in preparation for a phase one diamond drilling program.
CEO James Hedalen says drilling is expected to begin next week and the company will provide further information on the program once the drills are at site.
The program will be targeting the El Perdido porphyry system – which is host to a porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum system that has been defined at surface but has not seen any drilling to date.
Drilling will test the centre of the system, where the highest density of quartz stockwork veining associated with a potassic alteration assemblage occurs and which has been intruded by a series of inter-mineral hydrothermal breccias.
The target is characterised as a 2km by 2km hydrothermal alteration footprint exhibiting classic porphyry alteration assemblages, anomalous copper-gold-molybdenum rock geochemistry, mapped quartz diorite porphyritic intrusions, extensive hydrothermal breccias, and potassic alteration in an area that is otherwise dominated by phyllic alteration.
Kobrea first began constructing a drill access road for the El Perdido program in November 2025, as previously reported.
El Perdido covers 6,878 hectares within the Western Malargüe Copper Project in the southwestern Mendoza Province of Argentina.
Kobrea Exploration is a junior explorer and developer focused on acquiring and discovering base metal projects.
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