This would be the first drilling campaign carried out on the project since 2012
In a press release, the miner said that preparations are well advanced for an initial 15 hole, 3500-metre diamond core drilling program which will initially focus on the high-grade copper-gold skarn and porphyry targets at the Montaña de Cobre and Cresta Verde prospects, and the epithermal gold-silver target at the Callejón de Oro prospect, where epithermal style mineralization assays reported 11m @ 19.5g/t Au.
According to C3, this would be the first drilling campaign carried out on the project since 2012.
“We view the Jasperoide project as an exceptional copper-gold opportunity that will drill-test a large-scale mineralized system in a world-class copper region,” C3 Metals’ executive chairman, Tony Manini, said in the media brief. “We look forward to reporting a consistent flow of news as our drilling program ramps up over the coming months.”
The Jasperoide project covers 57 square kilometres and it sits on a gently rolling plateau at an elevation of 4,300 metres. Previous exploration identified copper and gold mineralization in a magnetite skarn with a classic hydrothermal alteration signature of an underlying copper porphyry system.
