Aeris Resources Ltd’s (ASX:AIS) second drill hole at Anomaly K target within the tenement package comprising the Tritton operations in New South Wales has intersected a 3.4-metre zone of massive sulphides.
Drill hole TAKD002 was designed to test the second of two bedrock conductors at Anomaly K and intersected a massive sulphide zone from 61.2 metres down hole within strongly altered and partially weathered turbidite sediments.
Based on visual observations pyrite is the dominant sulphide mineral with lesser chalcopyrite and chalcocite.
“Validates EM targeting method”
Drilling has now confirmed that both EM conductors at Anomaly K represent sulphide bodies.
Aeris executive chairman Andre Labuschagne said: “This is another exciting drill result at Anomaly K. Once TAKD002 is completed we will undertake a Down Hole EM (DHEM) survey, which will help to vector the next drill hole.
"Whilst assay results for both TAKD001 and TAKD002 are pending, the fact that both drill holes have intersected sulphide bodies within EM conductors validates EM surveys as an effective targeting method.”
Samples from drill hole TAKD002 will be dispatched to the laboratory for analysis with assay results expected to be returned early in 2021.
Plan view showing location of the modelled bedrock conductors and drill hole collars for TAKD001 and TAKD002 at the Anomaly K prospect.
Exploration potential
The discovery of a second sulphide body at the Anomaly K prospect is consistent with observations elsewhere in the Tritton tenement package of sulphide clusters forming within mineralised centres e.g. Tritton, Murrawombie, Girilambone North.
This supports the company’s view that there remains significant potential within the Tritton tenement package for the discovery of additional mineralised systems beyond the current known deposits.
Labuschagne said: “Anomaly K also confirms our belief that the under-explored northern section of our Tritton tenement package remains highly prospective for further discoveries.”
Within the southern half of the tenement package approximately 750,000 tonnes of copper metal has been discovered to date along a 50-kilometre stratigraphic corridor between the Budgery and Avoca Tank deposits.
North of Avoca Tank the stratigraphic corridor has been confirmed to extend an additional 65 kilometres through EL6126 and EL8084 with the potential to extend a further 40 kilometres through EL8810.