The first hole of the Phase II drill program at the Adelita Porphyry/Skarn Project, drill hole PH2-001 is targeting a planned depth of 500 meters.
This hole is designed to step-out and extend the Cerro Grande skarn discovery 100 meters to the north of the Phase I drilling footprint.
The 2nd planned hole of Phase II drilling is designed to test the guts of the Cerro Grande Skarn, going deeper than any previous drill hole targeting the resistive anomaly at depth.
Subsequent holes will systematically expand the discovery to the south and northwest along a 2.5-kilometer corridor defined by magnetic surveys, soil geochemistry, and geological mapping.
Phase II drilling meterage is allotted as follows:
⛏️ Cerro Grande Skarn - 7,200 meters in roughly 15 holes, with an average depth of ~400 meters (deepest hole will be ~700 meters). Aimed at significantly expanding the known mineralized strike extent of the system along a newly defined 2.5km magnetic corridor.
⛏️ Cerro Potrero South I (scout drilling) - 300 meters in 3 holes, designed to investigate high-grade surface mineralization coincident with a strong magnetic anomaly.
⛏️ Las Trancas Epithermal (scout drilling) - 600 meters in 3 holes, in the first modern drill test of an Alamo Dorado -style silver-copper-gold system. Testing continuity and depth of an undrilled IP geophysical anomaly.
The 2nd drill rig is set to arrive in the next week, with first assay results from Phase II drilling expected in August.
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You can't ask for a better neighbor.
Right next to our Sunnyside Project sits South32's Hermosa, one of the most significant critical-minerals developments in the United States, and the largest private investment in southern Arizona's history.
We enjoyed listening to professional portfolio manager @tom_woolrych explain what he looks for in porphyry copper exploration and what prompted him to become more bullish on $BIG.V:
"In the case of Hercules, I actually got more bullish on like the fifth hole, right?..... Because I saw they could deliver these awesome intercepts.... what I like to look at is between 500 and 1,000% copper-meters (length of drill interval in meters x Cu % grade)....So, to be fair, anything above 100 is good, but I look for these unusual intercepts and I'll start looking at the geology and see if did they drill down a vein or down the down the guts of the breccias...breccias can be really heartbreaking because they form these pipe-like geometries and you're just never really going to get the tonnes, despite the high grades.
I saw economic-type mineralization, and that's when I started to get more bullish on Hercules.....I'm still incredibly bullish Hercules."
Tom Woolrych is a portfolio manager/geologist at Deutsche Rohstoff AG, a natural resources focused investment fund based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Thank you to @ceodotca for the terrific content!
Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/EB5cbv0FGB
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$ARK.V up 42% today after drilling 935.9m of copper-gold porphyry from surface in Kazakhstan.
Hole ended in mineralization.
They ran out of drill rod before running out of grade.
Best stretch: 214.9m at 1.42% CuEq starting at 162m depth. Incl 55m at 4.41% CuEq.
Drill hole HER-26-01 is currently in progress and into the target zone at Southern Flats, below 1,000m downhole depth, where it is testing the central axis of a large MT conductivity anomaly in search of the causative porphyry center.
Notably, PQ drill casing was advanced significantly deeper in HER-26-01, preparing the hole for deeper drilling as the team vectors toward the heart of the system.
At Southern Flats, copper mineralization occurs with both early halo-style veins and quartz veins. This is distinct from Leviathan, where quartz veins typically do not host significant copper.
The presence of copper-bearing quartz veins at Southern Flats suggests grade may increase with quartz-vein density—often highest near the center of a porphyry system.
$BIG.V $BADEF #Copper #CriticalMinerals #Idaho #Porphyry #Silver
Copper is moving from being “Dr Copper” to “strategic copper”. It still reflects global growth, but it increasingly reflects energy security, industrial policy and infrastructure resilience. https://t.co/KbdjDpRlwg via @saxobank
We've intersected a new blind porphyry copper system with copper sulphides observed including bornite and chalcopyrite at Piuquenes, San Juan, Argentina. 🇦🇷⛏️
Recent MT geophysics identified a compelling target with signatures typical of Miocene porphyry systems.
Assay results pending.
$ANDC, $ANDC.V
HER-25-25 Intersects Margins of a New Blind Copper Porphyry System at the Southern Flats Zone, Hercules Project, Idaho
$BIG.V HER-25-25 may be the most important hole Hercules has drilled outside Leviathan.
✅New Mineralized Center: HER-25-25 has intersected alteration and veining consistent with the outer margins of a new porphyry center, with step-out drilling underway to vector towards the causative porphyry intrusion.
✅Distinct Style: The style of mineralization is distinct from that at Leviathan, with a greater proportion of quartz vein-hosted mineralization and stronger grades than would typically be observed on the margins of the Leviathan system.
✅Increasing Alteration Intensity: Reconnaissance drilling, from east to west at Southern Flats, has systematically vectored from distal propylitic, through phyllic, to outer potassic alteration in HER-25-25, indicating drilling is progressing west toward a new porphyry center.
177 meters of 0.66% CuEq within 271 meters of 0.51% CuEq at Southern Flats — not in the core, but on the margins of a blind porphyry system. The hole stopped in encouraging geology due to a fault, with alteration, veining, and chalcopyrite/pyrite ratios all strengthening westward.
Now drill hole HER-26-01 is stepping 200m west toward the center of a 2.6km x 1.3km x 1.2km MT conductivity anomaly.
Read more here: https://t.co/TU5Hlbf3ve
#Copper #CriticalMinerals #Idaho #PorphyryDeposits #Silver
$BIG.V put out the first hole into Southern Flats, a brand new target 1km south of their Leviathan copper discovery in Idaho.
177m of 0.66% CuEq. Hole got cut off by a fault before reaching the core.
Step-out is already drilling 200m closer to the center.
https://t.co/uQKiZSttoS
A scramble for physical delivery of #copper to the USA 🇺🇸 and China 🇨🇳 is taking place via the London Metals Exchange 🏦
At $BIG.V, we believe the best physical storage of copper is not a warehouse.
It’s a large-scale porphyry system in Idaho: copper stored in the ground, in a mining-friendly U.S. jurisdiction, with power, roads, water, and a skilled workforce with mining in its DNA.
In a world scrambling for copper, geology is the ultimate vault.
We're pleased to announce assay results from the 6 previously reported Vault Zone drill holes at the Tamarack Project.
These assays confirm high-grade nickel-copper mineralization across multiple areas of the Vault Zone as our team continues to evaluate the mineralized system.
Read the full press release: https://t.co/3tKbjhw5UO
#Nickel #CriticalMinerals $TLO $TLOFF
Modeled up the partial assay results of FS_DDH_016 which Mogotes Metals announced from their Filo Sur Project. Looks like 86 meters of 2.2% Copper Equivalent if you run the math. Wow! #copper#gold#chile 🇨🇱😀⛏️⛏️⛏️ $MOG $MOG.V
Supply shock + electrification/data center demand = new all-time highs for copper
There could hardly be a better time to find a new porphyry copper belt in the United States: copper demand is being pulled higher by electrification, AI data centers, grid expansion, defense needs, and the reshoring of critical mineral supply chains.
With new copper mines taking decades to permit and build, a major domestic copper discovery today is not just an exploration success — it is a strategic American supply-chain asset that can power the economic growth and energy security of the United States🇺🇸 for decades to come.
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