Rock chip assays confirm high-grade copper-silver mineralisation across multiple prospects at Coppermine project, with drilling underway at Talisker and first rush assays due in two weeks.
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Somerset Minerals (ASX:SMM) has returned high-grade assay results from a surface rock chip sampling program at its Coppermine project in Canada, with peak grades of 46.3% copper at the Skye prospect and 36.4% copper with 214 grams per tonne (g/t) silver at Talisker.
A total of 86 rock chip samples were collected across the Talisker district, Jons Pit, Skye, Danvers North and Danvers South. The assays confirmed widespread high-grade copper mineralisation: 47 samples returned grades above 1% copper, and 19 samples exceeded 10% copper.
Managing Director Chris Hansen said silver credits are a consistent feature of the results, with 17 samples grading above 30 g/t silver.
"These assay results serve to support what our field teams observed at surface. To return grades of up to 36.4% copper and 214 g/t silver at Talisker, across a corridor that has never been drill tested until now, underscores the prospectivity of the region, and validates the multidisciplinary targeting approach that brought us here: geophysics, till geochemistry, detailed mapping, and now laboratory-confirmed high-grade copper at surface," Mr Hansen said.
He highlighted the Skye discovery as a "highly convincing new target" because the first rock chips from that Priority-1 target included 46.3% copper as massive bornite. The presence of sediments and bornite, he said, suggests a different style of mineralisation to the basalt-hosted fault systems at Talisker, Jura and Danvers, opening a new search space within the licence area.
Talisker is the company's highest-priority regional target, a 17-km-long coincident geochemical and geophysical anomaly now backed by surface copper grades. The corridor sits only 4 km from White Cliff Minerals' (ASX:WCN) Danvers copper deposit.
Concurrently, Somerset Minerals has completed 1,900 metres of its maiden RC drill program at Talisker across 12 holes. The company is drilling with the benefit of the surface results in hand. Mr Hansen said the company will provide a separate announcement on drilling progress in the coming days, with first rush assays expected in the next two weeks.
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