Helix Resources to Drill Upgraded Bijoux Copper Anomaly

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Helix Resources (ASX: HLX) is mobilising drill rigs in preparation of drill testing of recently defined high tenor copper zones at the company’s larger Bijoux auger copper anomaly in the Cobar region of New South Wales.

Helix Resources anticipates commencement of the drilling to be late September 2024.

The company announced discovery of the Bijoux anomaly in January on the back of high-grade copper intercepts in several reverse-circulation (RC) holes that outlined a 200m long NNW-trending zone which is open to depth and along strike.

Helix Resources considers Bijoux as being prospective for CSA-type copper deposits believing it represents an important copper discovery beyond the company’s Canbelego Mineral Resource located 9km to the north.

Exploration is ongoing on multiple fronts across Helix’s NSW tenements in addition to the upcoming Bijoux drill program.

“We are very excited to be resuming drilling at Bijoux,” Helix Resources managing director Kylie Prendergast said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The new copper auger results clearly show the extension to the known drilled copper zone, providing an obvious pathway for the follow up drilling to extend zones of higher-grade oxide and sulphide copper mineralisation.

“Helix is treating this area as a copper camp that contains a series of robust surface copper geochemistry targets, and the strategy is to discover new CSA-style copper lodes within these anomalous outlines.

“Helix has proven that viable CSA-style copper lodes occur on our tenements such as the copper Mineral Resources in the Canbelego Main Lode.

“The objective of the current exploration programs is to identify additional copper mineralisation in a near surface setting.”

 

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