Lefroy Exploration Intersects Copper Mineralisation at Lovejoy

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Lefroy Exploration (ASX: LEX) hit copper mineralisation during recent diamond drilling on the company’s wholly-owned Eastern Lefroy gold project outside Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Lefroy Exploration reported a diamond hole drilled at the Lovejoy prospect, located 1.5 kilometres north of the recent Burns gold-copper discovery, intersected copper mineralisation of a boisterous enough nature to excite the company.

Dimond hole LEFD008 was drilled to 364 metres down hole and intersected a 145m long interval of copper mineralisation between 130m-275m that included a 42m length of hydrothermal breccia, which hosts extensive native copper and copper sulphides from 233m – 275m.

The drilling was carried out to follow up pervious results returned from RC drilling that also encountered encouraging copper hits.

The company said the intensity of native copper mineralisation in the breccia zone was further demonstrated by copper coating the outside of several steel drill rods from the drill string.

“This is a remarkable new discovery of copper mineralisation 1.5 kilometres north of Burns, which is open,” Lefroy Exploration managing director Wade Johnson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“With every hole drilled we advance and grow the overall Burns project.

“We believe the copper-rich breccia is a component of a larger magmatic system, the limits of which we are yet to define.

“Lovejoy has always been a high priority target given its unique geophysical signature, as well as the significant results generated from LEFR297 in 2021 that ended in 1.5 per cent copper at 258 metres.

“We have acted immediately on this new discovery and while we eagerly await the assays from LEFD008, we expect more encouraging visual results with follow-up diamond hole LEFD009.”

 

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