Bezant Resources PLC (LON:BZT) has unveiled another significant copper intercept in its second drill hole at the Minemba prospect within the Kalengwa area in Zambia.
The copper-gold exploration and development company has a 30% interest and acts as operator in the project.
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The mineralisation was intersected over a 114-metre downhole width within altered and brecciated gabbro intrusive rocks in the second hole at Minemba.
Preliminary hand-held measurements, to be confirmed with geochemical assays, returned copper grades over six metres at 1.67% copper from 99 to 105 metres, including two metres at 2.9% copper, among others.
The provisional results support the width and tenor of the intersections encountered in the first hole MB-01, located 100 metres away.
Mineralisation in MB-02 occurs as disseminations and replacements of chalcopyrite within the gabbro intrusive.
Combined with records from historic drilling, mineralisation at Minemba has now been traced laterally for at least 350 metres.
The AIM-listed firm is planning for a detailed geophysical survey at Minemba to help direct further drilling by mapping the extent of the magnetic gabbro and assisting in delineating areas of conductive copper-pyrite mineralisation.
Further drilling is being planned which will be guided by geology and geophysics.
The provisional results are subject to lab assays which are anticipated to be available in the second half of May 2021.
“We are very pleased with the 114m interval of continuous mineralisation. The archives did not suggest this to be the case and we are particularly encouraged by the geological sequence which is the same as in the nearby rich copper pit at Kalengwa,” said executive chairman Colin Bird in a release.
“We are pleased with the results to date as we have not yet tested several other targets on the large Kalengwa property, including a 13km zone of enhanced soil geochemistry along an interpreted structure. We plan to carry out initial geophysical surveying on this target while the geophysics crew is on site."