Cobre’s sixth drillhole at Ngami copper play returns thick mineralisation; second rig en route

Cobre Limited (ASX:CBE) continues to demonstrate its reasons for confidence in the Ngami copper play, reporting a successful hit down the sixth drillhole on-site.

That drillhole, an extension asset testing how far mineralisation extends, has returned a core sample some 18m thick and visibly mineralised with chalcocite mineralisation included. 

Chalcocite is strongly coincident with high-grade copper mineralisation. 

The company is fast-tracking its exploration activities at Ngami based on a whirlwind of continued successes, and a second diamond drill rig is currently being procured. 

Assay results to become available soon 

“We look forward to updating the market [on] assay results as these become available,” Cobre MD Martin Holland said. 

Cobre highlighted late last month the company was expecting lab data to become available in the near future. 

“Given the success  of the first six holes in this diamond drill program, the company is fast tracking exploration with a second rig mobilising to site,” Holland added.

“This significant result shows the copper mineralisation intersected so far continues along the extensive strike length of the target.” 

A timeline of work so far

In early July, Cobre shares rose 28% as the company launched drilling at the Ngami project. At the time, the company noted previous drillholes on site had intersected copper and silver. 

“The KCB is one of the most prospective copper belts world-wide,” Holland said at the time.

A month later, in early August, the company’s shares rocketed 267% as the company continued its success after previously posting photographs of cores extracted from Ngami full of visible copper mineralisation. 

Those photos alone, which showed thick blue copper mineralisation, clearly left investors' mouths watering. 

Less than a week later, Cobre got underway with a separate infill diamond rig drill run at Ngami. 

In mid-August, the company’s share price jumped 40% again as geotechs hit fresh copper mineralisation at Ngami. 

Part of investor enthusiasm for the copper project is no doubt also due to projected forecasts of the copper market.

Everybody from BloombergNEF to the Australian Chief Economist predict copper prices to continue experiencing a rally well into the 2030s.

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