C3 Metals CEO Dan Symons joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share key updates on the company's ongoing exploration work at the Khaleesi copper-gold project in Southern Peru's Andahuaylas-Yauri Porphyry-Skarn belt. This project is an undrilled, outcropping copper-gold skarn and porphyry prospect, and recent surface mapping and sampling have highlighted several promising targets.
Symons explained that about 50% of the surface mapping is complete, with the program identifying prograde magnetite and retrograde garnet-diopside skarns over a 1,200m by 500m area. The mineralization includes both hypogene (chalcopyrite-bornite) and supergene (chrysocolla, malachite, azurite) minerals. Rock chip samples have returned impressive results, including up to 2.82% copper, 6.0 g/t gold, 57.7 g/t silver, and 284 ppm molybdenum, delineating a 600m by 600m anomalous copper zone.
In addition, the presence of elevated molybdenum and arsenic geochemistry in the marble suggests the potential for a porphyry system beneath the marbleized limestone. To advance the exploration, C3 Metals plans to conduct grid soil sampling, Induced Polarization (IP), and ground magnetic geophysical surveys to quickly bring the copper-gold targets to drill-ready status.