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: Tertiary Minerals plc
Tertiary begins drilling at Brunton Pass
Tertiary Minerals plc has started an additional drilling programme in its portfolio of licences with operations at the Brunton Pass copper-gold project in central Nevada, USA. UNPARALLELED The company plans four reverse circulation percussion drill holes each to an average depth of 350 to 400 metres. Tertiary said that two holes holes would test for […]
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 […]
Mushima North shows widespread mineralisation
Tertiary Minerals plc has intersected widespread copper and zinc mineralisation at its Mushima North copper project in Zambia. ANOMALY Twenty-five holes were drilled to a maximum depth of 112m on three traverses at target A1, a copper-in-soil anomaly covering 3km north-south by 1.5km east-west, and one at C1. Multiple drill holes from the inaugural programme […]
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 […]
Tertiary delineates copper-in-soil anomaly
Tertiary Minerals plc has delineated a “large and strategically located copper-in-soilanomaly” at its Mupala project in the Kabompo Dome of the Nothwestern Province, Zambia. PROMISING The company collected 684 soil samples in areas of anomalous copper-in-soil with results identifying a copper-in-soil anomaly approximately 1,800m long by 600m wide. Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis identified a peak […]