Tertiary Minerals plc has paused operations at three of its Zambia copper joint venture projects until after the Christmas and New Year break. DATA The company’s earn-in partner KoBold Metals drilled at Konkola West until 16 December but has yet to reach the target horizon. The programme is expected to resume on or around 7 […]
Tag: Mukai – Zambia
Tertiary drill tests Mukai soil anomaly
Tertiary Minerals plc’s earn-in partner has started drilling to test beneath the large soil anomaly defined in 2023 at the Mukai copper project in Zambia. RESOURCE First Quantum Minerals Ltd received approvals from the Department of Forestry and the leadership of local tribal group the Musele Royal Establishment. Phase I, comprising up to six diamond […]
Tertiary signs First Quantum earn-in for Mukai
Tertiary Minerals plc subsidiary in Zambia has signed a binding letter of agreement for First Quantum Minerals Ltd to earn in up to 90% on the Mukai copper project. MILESTONES Exploration licence 27066-HQ-LEL, held by Tertiary’s local partner Mwashia Resources Ltd, covers 55.4km2 and lies in the Domes region of the Zambian copper belt. In September […]
‘Substantial’ copper-in-soil anomaly defined at Mukai
Tertiary Minerals plc has defined a substantial copper-in-soil anomaly from soil samples at the Mukai copper earn-in project in northwest Zambia. HIGH GRADE Analysis using a portable XRF instrument in the field of 526 soil samples showed the “large high-grade” anomaly with values in excess of a 160ppm copper across 1,300m by 400m. Peak soil […]
Tertiary begins soil sampling at Zambia copper licences
Tertiary Minerals plc has started soil sampling at its Zambia copper licences after recently receiving forest permits. PROGRAMME At Konkola West, the company will collect 260 soil samples in the north and northwest of the licence where the main host to copper mineralisation “may be shallower and less steeply dipping” than on the eastern side […]
Tertiary receives Mukai-Mushima North permits
Tertiary Minerals plc has received its delayed permits for soil sampling in the forest areas within Mukai and Mushima North copper licences in Zambia. TARGETS Target C1 in Mushima North showed a “wide, low-grade” intersection of copper mineralisation from recent resampling of core from drill hole RKN800, and sits on the margin of a gravity […]