Tertiary Minerals PLC (AIM:TYM) has put the spotlight on its Jacks copper project in Zambia, which it describes as highly prospective, under-explored and ‘drill-ready’.
Jacks covers around 70 square kilometres, in the vicinity of the ‘Central African Copperbelt’, and has previously been the subject of exploration, including soil geochemistry, ground and airborne geophysics and drilling.
“Jacks forms one of several prospective exploration projects within our pipeline, which are at the drill-ready stage and have the potential to generate near-term value," said managing director Richard Belcher.
“Historic drilling, as well as recent drilling undertaken by Tertiary, confirms the potential of the Project to host both shallow, lower-grade and deeper, higher-grade copper mineralisation.
“Limited drilling by Tertiary has intersected copper mineralisation between approximately 25m and 100m vertical depth from surface.”
Tertiary’s exploration programme, in 2022, comprised four diamond holes totalling 746 metres. It confirmed copper mineralisation in the ‘fold hinge’, but a large part of the target remains untested.