Aim-listed Tertiary Minerals has announced provisional results from its detailed soil sampling programme at the Jacks copper project, in Zambia, and the definition of multiple copper soil anomalies in different areas of the exploration licence.
The soil sampling programme was completed on schedule and on budget.
There were 1 807 samples collected on a 200 m by 40 m spacing over four separate grids.
A portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pXRF) elemental analysis of samples in the field gave real-time data, defined soil anomalies and allowed for immediate follow-up sampling.
Follow-up sampling was carried out on three of the four grids.
Multiple soil anomalies were defined, with a peak value of 535 ppm copper and with sufficient ground control to allow for drill testing.
Results are said to compare favourably with soil anomalies in the vicinity of various orezones at current and past producing mines on the copperbelt.
Results from pXRF analysis are regarded as provisional and check samples are now being sent to a South African laboratory for traditional wet chemical analysis.
“The soil sampling programme went smoothly, thanks to our contractor GeoQuest and our local partner Mwashia Resources.
“We are delighted with the results obtained to date, which, although provisional, have defined multiple soil anomalies in favourable lower roan stratigraphy that are of the same order of magnitude as those reported to occur in the vicinity of orezones at past and currently operating mines elsewhere in the copperbelt,” comments executive chairperson Patrick Cheetham.