REG - Great Southrn.Copper - High Grade Ag-Cu Samples Expands Monolith Target

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14/10/2025 07:00

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RNS Number : 1932D  Great Southern Copper PLC  14 October 2025

 

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14 October 2025

 

Great Southern Copper plc

("GSC" or the "Company")

 

High Grade Ag-Cu in Rock Samples Expands Monolith Target at Cerro Negro,
Especularita

 

Second drill rig arrives at Mostaza to expand Phase III drilling programme

 

Great Southern Copper plc (LSE: GSCU), the company focused on
copper-gold-silver exploration in Chile, is pleased to announce that the
results of its channel rock chip sampling programme at the Monolith Cu-Ag
prospect ("Monolith") significantly enhances the mineralised footprint at
Cerro Negro, and that a second diamond drill rig has arrived on site at the
Mostasa Mine ("Mostaza").

 

Highlights:

·    48 rock channel samples collected at Monolith with assay grades up
to 271g/t Ag, 2.05% Cu

·    Samples average 35.4g/t Ag and 0.31% Cu despite evidence of surface
leaching

·    Results define a zone of mineralisation greater than 50 metres ("m")
wide

·    Mineralisation open to the south and southeast where exploration is
continuing

·    Second diamond drill rig arrives on site to advance Mostaza Phase III
drill programme

·    Company holds the option to earn 100% of the Cerro Negro prospect

·   The Especularita Project is located at low elevation with excellent
access to mining infrastructure and services

 

Prospect-scale mapping and sampling have continued across the Cerro Negro
prospect with the aim of determining the potential for the Mostaza style
high-grade, structurally-controlled Cu-Ag mineralisation to extend along
strike to the south and east and to investigate potential for, and vector
towards, porphyry Cu style mineralisation.

 

Sam Garrett, Chief Executive Officer of Great Southern Copper, said: "With
copper and silver prices at record highs, these high-grade results are both
exciting and highly significant since they further demonstrate and expand the
scale potential of the Cerro Negro Cu-Ag prospect. With Phase III drilling
underway at Mostaza, the team is also working in parallel to advance
exploration across additional targets within the Cerro Negro prospect area to
expand the mineralised footprint.

 

"The Company has previously reported results of high-grade Cu-Ag in rock chip
samples along the Mostaza Fault up to 2.5 kilometres to the south of the
Mostaza mine. These results now extend that work to the east of Mostaza,
reinforcing our confidence in the broader district-scale potential of the
system.

 

"A second diamond drill rig has arrived on site to further advance the Phase
III drill programme at Mostaza. Rig 2 will initially target extensions and
in-fill to the Lens 2 mineralisation. The Company looks forward to updating
the market as drilling progresses and results are received"

 

 

Figure 1: Location map of GSC's Especularita Project and Mostaza mine in
Chile.

 

 

Monolith Cu-Ag prospect:

This prospect-scale mapping and sampling work follows on from reconnaissance
sampling at Monolith reported in 2024(1) which first identified the Monolith
prospect. The Monolith prospect, where artisanal miners recovered high-grade
Cu-Ag from baryte-rich veins extending over 200m, is located approximately
400m to the southeast of the Mostaza mine (Figure 2, 3). The copper and
silver-rich baryte veins form an anastomosing network within a broader
alteration zone of silica-clay altered dacitic wall-rock up to 50m wide.
High-grade Cu-Ag mineralisation is identified as green and black copper oxides
on fracture surfaces, in quartz veinlets, stockworks and vein breccias and as
disseminations within the altered dacite (Figure 4). In places, the silicified
host-rocks are variably eroded, producing spires or "monoliths" of strongly
Cu-Ag mineralised rock. Significant limonitic-goerthitic boxworks after
sulphide suggest evidence of leaching of sulphides at surface.

 

The mineralised dacitic rocks are very similar in appearance to those observed
at the bottom of the Mostaza pit and in the Lens 5 area.

 

Mapping and sampling is continuing at Monolith and across the Cerro Negro
prospect to assist with defining further targets for exploration drilling.

 

Sampling and results:

Samples were collected as 1-2m channel chip samples with the exception of one
sample (991641) which was taken from mine mullock. All rock samples collected
are located using hand-held GPS units (WGS84 zone 19S datum, UTM coordinate
system) and allocated a unique sample number using a ticket-book system.

 

Samples are transported from the field and delivered by Company employees to
ALS Laboratories in Santiago, where they are prepared for analysis (weighed,
dried, crushed and pulverised). A subsequent 200g split of each sample pulp is
then forwarded to the ALS geochemical laboratory in Lima, Peru, where samples
are assayed for gold (30g fire assay with ICP-AES finish, ALS code AU-ICP21)
and analysed for 48 major, base and trace elements by ICP-MS following a
four-acid digest (ALS code ME-MS61).

 

Copper assay grades for the channel chip samples range up to 2.09% Cu with 55%
of samples being anomalous in copper (>0.1% Cu) - although the oxidised and
leached nature of the dacitic host rock suggests that a lower threshold may
still be anomalous. Silver assay grades range up to 271g/t Ag with 85% of
samples anomalous in silver (>1.0g/t Ag) and 75% of samples assaying
>10g/t Ag. Strongly elevated silver grades with low copper is further
evidence of potential leaching of copper in the oxide profile at Monolith.

 

Phase III drilling update:

Four diamond drill holes (CNG25-DD026-29) have been completed to date testing
the Lenses 3-5 area. A second diamond rig has arrived on site to advance the
programme and will initially test in-fill and extensions to the Lens 2
mineralisation.

 

 

Figure 2: Summary map of rock chip assay results at Cerro Negro for silver (L)
and copper (R).

 

 

 

Figure 3: New and previously reported assay results for silver (L) and copper
(R) at the Monolith target, Cerro Negro prospect, Especularita.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 4: Examples of visible copper mineralisation outcropping at the
Monolith target, Cerro Negro.

 

 

 

  References:

1.    RNS 3120K (31 Oct 2024): Cerro Negro Results up to 4.64% Cu and
177g/t Ag.

 

 

 

Enquiries:

 

 Great Southern Copper plc             c/o BlytheRay
 Sam Garrett, Chief Executive Officer  +44 (0) 20 7138 3204

 SI Capital Limited
 Nick Emerson                          +44 (0) 1483 413500

 BlytheRay
 Tim Blythe / Megan Ray                +44 (0) 20 7138 3204

                                       GSC@blytheray.com

 

Notes for Editors:

 

About Great Southern Copper

 

Great Southern Copper PLC is a UK-listed mineral exploration company focused
on the discovery of copper-gold-silver deposits in Chile. The Company has the
option to acquire mining rights to 100% of Especularita project in the
under-explored coastal belt of Chile that is prospective for large scale
copper-gold-silver deposits. Chile is a globally significant mining
jurisdiction being the world's largest producer and exporter of copper.

 

The Especularita Project is located in the coastal metallogenic belt of Chile
which hosts significant copper mines and deposits, including Teck's Carmen de
Andacollo copper mine, and boasts excellent access to infrastructure such as
roads, power and ports. Significant historical small-scale and artisanal
workings for both copper and gold are readily evident in the exploration
project area. The coastal belt offers deposit type optionality for copper
including porphyry and IOCG style deposits as well as newly recognised
intrusive-related copper and gold deposits.

 

Great Southern Copper is strategically positioned to support the global market
for copper - a critical battery metal in the clean energy transition around
the world. The Company is actively engaged in exploration and evaluation work
programmes targeting both large tonnage, low to medium grade Cu-Au as well as
high-grade Cu-Ag-Au deposits.

 

Further information on the Company is available on the Company's website:
https://gscplc.com (https://gscplc.com)

 

Competent Person Statement

 

The information in this announcement that relates to exploration results is
based on and fairly represents information reviewed or compiled by Mr Sam
Garrett, a Competent Person who is a Member of the Australian Institute of
Geoscientists and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. Mr Garrett
is the CEO and a shareholder of Great Southern Copper PLC. Mr Garrett has
sufficient experience that is relevant to the styles of mineralisation and
types of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to
qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the
"Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and
Ore Reserves". Mr Garrett has provided his prior written consent to the
inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on information in the form
and context in which it appears.

 

This announcement includes information that relates to Exploration Results
prepared and first disclosed under the JORC Code (2012) and extracted from the
Company's previous LSE announcements as noted, and the Company's Prospectus
dated 20 December 2021. Copies of these announcements are available from the
LSE Announcements page of the Company's website: www.gscplc.com
(http://www.gscplc.com) .

 

The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that
materially affects the information included within the Prospectus dated 20
December 2021.

 

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