Terra Metals (ASX:TM1) has intercepted multiple zones of visual sulfides following a recent diamond drilling program at the Southwest prospect within the Dante Project in the West Musgrave region of Western Australia.
Making up the consistency of a magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt sulfide system, zones are logged to contain pentlandite, chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite.
The company has reported multiple zones of massive and semi-massive sulfides from drilling intercepts, as well as net-textured sulfide mineralisation, which extends to multiple depths at separate holes and continuing along the reef contact.
Terra says the continuity of sulfide zones indicates that “mineralised horizons are laterally and vertically persistent”.
CEO Thomas Line says these intersections demonstrate Southwest’s prospectivity to host both titanium-vandium reef packages and copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum group metal sulfide zones in the same zone.
“Our drilling strategy is delivering exactly what we hoped — expanding the mineralised footprint while also vectoring into areas that show the strongest potential for metal-rich sulfide accumulation,” Line says.
“With assays due shortly, and drilling continuing along multiple reef lines, we are rapidly progressing our understanding of what is shaping up to be a large-scale, multicommodity discovery.”
Terra is currently pursuing the prospect with downhole electromagnetic surveys, diamond drilling, and reverse circulation drilling to refine targets and vector toward metal-rich sulfide accumulations.
The company first uncovered Bushveld-style reef discoveries at the property in 2024, finding the stratiform reefs to extend for 20km of strike within the Jameson Layered Intrusion as a part of the Giles Complex.
Mining.com.au reports Dante to be the only known resource with potential to host copper, gold, platinum group metals, vanadium, and titanium within its large sulphide deposits.
Speaking to Mining.com.au earlier this year, Line describes the project as the “first of its kind in the world”.
Terra Metals is a mineral explorer focused on developing the Dante Project which is prospective to host large sulphide deposits containing copper, gold, platinum group elements, vanadium, and titanium.
The company will be attending this year’s Noosa Mining Investor Conference, held between 12-14 November 2025, at the Peppers Noosa Resort. Mining.com.au is a media partner for this year’s event.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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