Encounter Resources Defines Drill Targets via Seismic Processing
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) announced identification of a suite of drill targets at the Carrara and Jessica projects that are being explored in partnership with South32 under Farm-in Agreements in the Northern Territory.
Encounter Resources explained the targets emerged from reprocessing of seismic lines.
The Jessica copper project covers approx. 6,300 square kilometres along key structural corridors east of Tennant Creek and is prospective for sediment-hosted copper and IOCG style deposits.
The Carrara copper-zinc project was secured by Encounter upon release of the South Nicholson Seismic Survey, a foundational dataset acquired as part of the Geoscience Australia Exploring for the Future Program.
Carrara is located at an interpreted structural offset of the western margin of the Carrara Sub-basin where the prospective Isa Superbasin units are modelled closer to surface.
“Jessica and Carrara present as unique exploration opportunities,” Encounter Resources managing director Will Robinson said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“The South Nicholson Seismic Survey, acquired as part of the Geoscience Australia Exploring for the Future Program, has provided an incomparable dataset for mineral explorers in this part of the NT.
“We have utilised this widespread seismic coverage, together with a detailed gravity survey facilitated by the NT Geological Survey in 2022, to generate drill targets for testing in 2023.
“The reprocessing of the seismic lines at Jessica and Carrara by HiSeis, experts in hard rock geological imaging, was the first activity completed in the partnership with South32 and the results have been revealing.
“Applied extensively by the oil and gas industry, seismic modelling techniques have resulted in astounding exploration success.
“The application of seismic to hard rock minerals exploration has the potential to make step changes in success rates for copper and zinc discoveries in sedimentary basins.
“We are delighted that South32 is planning to commence with diamond drilling at Jessica and Carrara in the 2023 field season.”
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