REG - Great Southrn.Copper - High-Grade Samples up to 5.97% Cu and 13.7g/t Au

Great Southern CopperAnnouncement

11/07/2023 07:00

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RNS Number : 5675F  Great Southern Copper PLC  11 July 2023

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11 July 2023

 

Great Southern Copper plc

("GSC" or the "Company")

 

High-Grade Cu-Au in Rock Chip Samples from Teresita up to 5.97% Cu and 13.7g/t
Au

 

Planning and permitting for scout drilling to progress at Teresita

 

Great Southern Copper plc (LSE: GSCU), the company focused on copper-gold
exploration in Chile, is pleased to announce an update to its exploration
programme at the Teresita prospect located within the Especularita project.

 

Highlights:

·    Results for 160 rock chip samples received with assay grades up to
5.97% Cu and 13.7g/t Au

·    High-grade Cu-Au mineralisation hosted in outcropping
quartz-carbonate vein-breccias

·    Mapping indicates multiple vein-breccias outcropping over a
cumulative strike length of 5km

·    GSC ground position increased to capture extent of the Teresita
mineralisation

·    Further results for rock chip samples and orientation soil sampling
programme pending

·    Planning for scout drill targeting is underway

 

Sam Garrett, Chief Executive Officer of Great Southern Copper, said:
"Exploration at Teresita over the last few months has produced very exciting
results which we are confident will translate to multiple drill targets for
multiple deposit types of high-grade copper and gold mineralisation.  We look
forward to receiving the results of our drone magnetic survey which will help
to optimise the location of drilling targets for the exploration programme at
Teresita."

 

Previous reconnaissance exploration at Especularita identified high-grade
Cu-Au mineralisation associated with vein-breccias with reported assay grades
up to 7.22% Cu and 13.1g/t Au(1). Since that time, GSC has embarked on a
programme of prospect-scale mapping and sampling with the aim to delineate the
scale of the system and identify potential targets for a scout drilling
campaign. Additionally, the Company has strategically expanded its concession
area to maximise its holding of the target type mineralisation at
Terresita(2).

 

Subsequent prospect-scale exploration at Teresita has included detailed
mapping with a further 160 rock chip samples collected to date. An orientation
soil sampling programme has also been completed and a drone-based magnetic
survey is in progress(3). Interpretations of the magnetics survey will
commence once final results are available.

 

The geologic mapping indicates that high-grade Cu-Au mineralisation at
Teresita is associated with a swarm of structurally-controlled, anastomosing
quartz-carbonate veins and vein-breccias which, to date, are mapped over a
cumulative strike length of up to 5km, although the structures have the
potential to be open further along strike. The veins are hosted in diorite and
additional veins may occur where outcrop is obscured by shallow scree cover.

 

In outcrop, the vein-breccia swarm exhibits distinctive intrusive-related,
mesothermal characteristics and typically comprise a massive quartz-carbonate
core up to 3m thick passing outward to a carbonate-dominated crackle-breccia
within the enclosing dioritic host rock. Highly disrupted fragments of quartz
vein material within carbonate suggest that the carbonate was a late addition
to the structures resulting in hydraulic fracturing of existing quartz veins,
re-brecciation and sealing of the structures. Sampling along the vein-breccias
demonstrates clearly that Cu-Au is preferentially hosted in quartz-dominant
parts of the vein system with copper occurring as coarse disseminated grains
within the quartz vein material. In contrast, carbonate-dominant parts of the
vein system are typically unmineralised. Metal grades assayed in 160 samples
collected from outcrop, sub-crop and mine dump material reach up to 5.97% Cu
and 13.7g/t Au (Figure 1).

 

Sampling and results:

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).

 

Of the 160 samples collected, 97 samples of quartz vein fragment material and
co-precipitated quartz-carbonate vein material assayed in the range of
<0.001 - 13.7 ppm Au and 3.8 - 59,700 ppm Cu (5.97% Cu). Of these samples,
29% were anomalous in gold (>0.1 ppm Au) and or copper (>1000 ppm Cu)
and 8% of samples reported over 1% Cu and or 1 ppm Au. Co-anomalism in silver
is also noted with 15% of samples anomalous in silver (>1 ppm Ag) with
assay grades reaching up to 18.9 ppm Ag. The remaining 63 samples comprising
of massive carbonate, carbonate-altered diorite and diorite host rock
exhibited no evidence of visible mineralisation and assays were not anomalous
in gold or copper, with the exception of one sample of massive carbonate vein
material which reported an assay result of 0.21 ppm Au.

 

 

Figure 1: Teresita vein swarm with veins identified as solid red lines (dashed
where interpreted) with thematic geochemistry maps for all Teresita prospect
rock chip samples (left) Au (ppm), (right) Cu (ppm).

 

References:

1.    RNS (22 Nov 2022): Early exploration at Especularita identifies
multiple copper targets and completion of drilling at San Lorenzo.

2.    RNS (20 Feb 2023): Exploration update at Especularita and San
Lorenzo.

3.    RNS (06 Jun 2023): Magnetic surveys commence at Especularita.

 

 

Enquiries:

 

 Great Southern Copper plc
 Sam Garrett, Chief Executive Officer      +44 20 4582 3500

 SI Capital Limited
 Nick Emerson                              +44 (0)14 8341 3500

 Gracechurch Group
 Harry Chathli, Alexis Gore, Henry Gamble  +44 (0)20 4582 3500

 

 

Notes for Editors:

 

About Great Southern Copper

 

Great Southern Copper is a mineral exploration company focused on copper-gold
deposits in Chile. The Company has the option to acquire rights to 100% of two
projects that are prospective for large scale copper-gold deposits in the
underexplored coastal belt of Chile, a globally significant mining
jurisdiction and the world's largest copper producer.

 

The two projects comprise the San Lorenzo Project, northeast of the coastal
town of La Serena in northern Chile, and the Especularita Project located
approximately 170km to the south of the San Lorenzo project. The two
early-stage Cu-Au exploration projects are within the same coastal
metallogenic belt as other major deposits including Teck's Andacollo copper
and gold mine. Significant historical small-scale and artisanal workings for
both copper and gold are readily evident in both exploration project areas.

 

Great Southern Copper is strategically positioned to support the global market
for copper, a key 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 deposits as well as
high-grade Cu-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 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.

 

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