Tertiary Minerals (LSE:TYM), an AIM-traded mineral explorer focused on copper and precious metals, holds a JORC Exploration Target at Target A1 of 15-30Mt at 40-60 g/t silver equivalent, and last season returned the project's best intercept of 97m at 56 g/t, 0.43% Cu and 0.19% Zn from 6m in hole 25TMNRC‑043, including higher-grade sub-intervals.
"Target A1 has a JORC Exploration Target containing up to 58 Moz silver equivalent, and the Company's aim is to convert this into a Mineral Resource Estimate by the end of this year," said Richard Belcher, Managing Director.
The programme will comprise east-west drill lines spaced about 100m apart with holes collared roughly 50m along lines and drilled to vertical depths of up to 125m to infill the oxide zone, test northwest/southwest/deeper extensions and undertake initial testing of western Target A1 and nearby Target A2.
All permitting is in place, a drilling contract with Ox Drilling has been signed, site works are underway, drilling is expected to start within two weeks and the campaign is forecast to take about 6-12 weeks.
Selected intervals will be pXRF‑screened on site and sent to a certified laboratory for multi‑element assays, with the first lab results expected about 6-8 weeks after the initial batch is submitted.
