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A NEW copper find in South Australia has the potential to easily boost production.
Mining firm Havilah Resources has confirmed a thick copper zone at its Croziers site about 400km northeast of the state’s capital Adelaide.
Its location between the company’s Portia and Kalkaroo projects strengthens its push for plant development at Kalkaroo because the short 10 kilometre trucking distance would mean efficient extraction between the two potential deposits.
Havilah is also confident of potential extensions to the copper mineralisation because of the widespread copper anomalism in adjacent air-core drill holes, and associated magnetic anomalies.
Managing Director Chris Giles said the company was planning on more drill testing but the combination of the nearby sites could produce up to 50,000 tonnes of copper a year.
“At Kalkaroo we have about 1.1Mt of copper and 3M ounces of gold,” he said.
“Given the 50 metre wide spacing of drill holes and lack of previous reverse circulation drilling there is plenty of room for a sizeable copper-tungsten deposit, which we will follow up with further drilling in due course.”
Havilah’s five shallow reverse circulation drill holes successfully tracked the copper mineralised horizon over 200 metres down-dip, and it potentially extends at least a further 270 metres down-dip to the previous MMG intersection.
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