Tennant Minerals (ASX:TMS) has begun a fresh drilling program to expand the footprint of its Bluebird Copper-Gold Discovery within the Barkly Project in the Northern Territory.
The reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling program will comprise 5,000m of drilling to test the shallow plunging thick and ‘high-grade’ gold and copper zone that extends west and east of Bluebird. Tennant will also target projected extensions at depth.
Additionally, Tennant says this drilling program will build on previous drilling, which led to the discovery of ‘high-grade’ copper and gold mineralisation over a 240m strike length and to a depth of more than 250m.
Previous ‘spectacular’ drill results from the stage 2 program include hole BBDD0018 with 30.5m @ 6.2% Cu, 6.8g/t Au from 153.6m, including 17.8m @ 5.2% Cu and 11.5g/t Au, and hole BBDD0012 with 63m @ 2.1% Cu, 4.6g/t Au from 153m, including 27.55m @ 3.6% Cu and 10g/t Au.
Tennant states that inversion modelling of initial results from a ‘major’ induced polarisation (IP) geophysical survey completed by Planetary Geophysics uncovered a ‘strongly’-conductive anomaly, centred 160m to the east of the discovery.
Additionally, this new IP target is more ‘highly’ conductive than the main Bluebird zone and represents a potential repeat of the ‘high-grade’ copper-gold discovery at a similar shallow depth.
The Bluebird discovery lies within Tennant’s wholly owned Barkly Project, situated at the eastern edge of the Tennant Creek Mineral Field, which has produced more than 5.5 million ounces of gold and 700,000 tonnes of copper from 1934 to 2005.
Tennant Minerals is an ASX-listed exploration and development company with copper-gold projects in the Tennant Creek area of the Northern Territory. The company’s focus is the Barkly and Babbler Copper-Gold Projects, with ongoing exploration programs targeting ‘major’ and ‘high-grade’ copper-gold deposits.
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