Recharge Metals (ASX: REC) has encountered visible copper sulphide mineralisation following a three-hole diamond drilling campaign at its Brandy Hill South Project in Western Australia.
Results from the third and final hole of the current program include massive, blebby and disseminated sulphides, which the company says reinforces the prospectivity of the host rocks.
Speaking on the update, Recharge Managing Director Brett Wallace said: “After intersecting over 600 metres of visible copper mineralisation in BHRCD018 and BHRCD019, we are very excited to repeat similar findings in this third diamond hole. BHD026 was drilled 200 metres north of BHRCD019 and displays very similar rock types and mineralisation across a near identical interval. As with BHRCD018 and BHRCD019, BHD026 also ended in mineralisation at 357m depth.
“After intersecting over 600 metres of visible copper mineralisation in BHRCD018 and BHRCD019, we are very excited to repeat similar findings in this third diamond hole”
The three diamond holes gives Recharge a strike of approximately 300m north-south across three diamond holes of encouraging copper sulphide mineralisation.
We look forward to getting the core processed, cut, sampled and start reporting assays as they are returned from the lab.”
The company also notes that the presence of copper mineralisation is corroborated by in-field readings conducted using a portable x-ray fluorescence gun.
Cross section of Brandy Hill South displaying highlight interceptsBrandy Hill South is located approximately 60km southeast of the township of Yalgoo within the Archaean Gullewa Greenstone Belt.
The 100%-owned project covers a 100km² footprint and has been subject to very limited drilling to date, despite demonstrating ‘clear potential’ to define a shear-hosted copper-gold deposit across a ‘considerable’ strike length.
With the recent diamond drilling campaign now complete, the company reports that it will move forward with completion of a downhole electromagnetic survey, along with a detailed analysis of drillcore prior to laboratory analysis in Perth.
Images: Recharge Metals Limited
