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Fitzroy Minerals Intersects 384 m @ 0.23% Cu from 4 m, including 94 m @ 0.33% Cu from 30 m, Buen Retiro Copper Project, Chile
(TheNewswire) Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire – March 20, 2026 &#...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Fitzroy Minerals Intersects 384 m @ 0.23% Cu from 4 m, including 94 m @ 0.33% Cu from 30 m, Buen Retiro Copper Project, Chile\n(TheNewswire)\n\n\nVancouver, British Columbia –\nTheNewswire – March 20, 2026 – Fitzroy Minerals\nInc. (TSXV: FTZ, OTCQX: FTZFF, FSE: C3Y) (“Fitzroy” or the “Company”) is\npleased to provide an update on exploration progress at its Buen\nRetiro and Caballos copper projects (the “Copper Projects”) in\nnorthern Chile. \n\n\nBuen Retiro\nHighlights:\n\n\n\n\nDrill hole BRT-DDH045: 384 m @ 0.22% Cu from 4 m,\nincluding 94 m @ 0.33% Cu from 30 m. \n\n\n\nInfill drilling underway to allow for a maiden mineral\nresource estimate ahead of a PFS. \n\n\n\nA 2,800 kg bulk sample ready for heap leach\nmetallurgical test work at SGS Laboratories. \n\n\n\nFleet Space Technologies passive seismic survey to\nstart soon.  \n\n\n\n\nAt the Caballos Copper Project, the airborne MobileMT\ngeophysical survey is complete, with data currently being\ninterpreted.\n\n\nMerlin Marr-Johnson, President and CEO of Fitzroy\nMinerals, commented: “Drill\nhole 45 intersected copper in two distinct mineralizing styles on a\nlarge scale in the North area of the Buen Retiro property. It is also\nlocated three kilometres north-northeast of the high-grade copper\noxide mineralization in the Southwest area. Combined with large,\ncoincident geophysical anomalies, there is now compelling evidence\nthat Buen Retiro is a major copper system. \n\n\nCrucially, Buen Retiro is at low\nelevation, on a brown-fields site four kilometres from the\nPan-American Highway and associated high voltage transmission lines,\nclose to the coast where a proposed desalination plant has a seawater\nextraction licence, and close to the mining centre of Copiapo with its\nmining services and large labour pool.  In an industry with\ndecreasing discovery rates Fitzroy aims to leverage potential future\ncash flow from the proposed Buen Retiro Heap Leach copper operation to\nfund the continued exploration for major copper deposits in Chile with\nminimal dilution.” \n\n\nBuen Retiro Cu-(Co) Project\n\n\nAt Buen Retiro, results from diamond drill holes 44 and\n45 from the Phase 1 program are reported in Table 1. Separately,\ninfill drilling with two diamond drill rigs starte...