Avalon Minerals Drilling at Viscaria Copper Project
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Avalon Minerals (ASX: AVI) commenced a program of diamond drilling on the company’s Viscaria copper project, located near Kiruna in northern Sweden.
Avalon Minerals outlined the drilling schedule, which will progress from the old Viscaria Mine to a target that is an interpreted northern extension of the D Zone orebody. Drilling will test a southern shoot at D Zone.
Avalon has already completed ground magnetic surveys, which it said had reinforced the targets previously identified.
The surveys also identified potential targets along the D Zone horizon to the north and south, which are to be modelled and considered for drilling.
Avalon has also progressed detailed structural geology studies aimed at delivering:
A 3-D structural model that will be used to target interpreted high-grade copper zones, at the deposit scale, associated with thickened magnetite zones and potentially higher copper grade feeder zones; and
A set of prioritised, new and existing, targets within 2.5km of the Viscaria copper deposit.
Avalon declared this has already made breakthroughs in the company’s geological understanding of Viscaria, from which it is building a predictive exploration model at the district scale.
“Our Viscaria copper project continues to deliver very strong targets and this latest round of geophysical surveys and technical studies has reinforced that,” Avalon Minerals managing director Malcolm Norris said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
“Multiple targets with characteristics similar to those of the D Zone orebody have been defined.
“Results from the current drilling program will be released as assay results are received and assessed.
“The VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide) model has been strongly reinforced by the recent studies and provides an increased level of confidence in a predictive model, upon which we can plan drilling aimed at increasing mineral resources.”
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