Carnaby Resources has made a copper discovery at its Greater Duchess copper-gold project in Mt Isa, Queensland, in an area previously under-explored.
Carnaby managing director Rob Watkins said the discovery was a thrilling one for the company.
“The discovery of undrilled outcropping high grade lode copper mineralisation over at least 150m of strike at Mohawk coincident with a very large and strong ground EM conductor is extremely exciting,” he said.
“Mohawk is located along a major NS vein lode fault structure over a completely undrilled 2km strike.”
Carnaby geologists discovered outcropping copper mineralisation at Mohawk, 1.5km southeast of Mount Hope.
No historical drilling had been completed in the area, leading Carnaby to complete a single costean and fixed loop electromagnetic ground survey along with mapping and surface sampling.
Carnaby is looking at the presence of strong copper mineralisation as a highly encouraging find.
“This discovery in addition to the Mount Hope discovery itself exemplifies our belief in the wider Mount Hope region,” Watkins said.
“It is a remarkably underexplored area with an enormous IOCG surface geochemical footprint of approximately 5km by 5km area.
“A major RC drilling program has commenced targeting open pit mineral resource growth at Greater Duchess from numerous new undrilled targets that will include the new Mohawk discovery.”
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