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Drilling Results at Teresita & Abundante Prospects
Drilling Results at Teresita & Abundante Prospects.
About this update from Great Southern Copper Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nTHIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER THE UK VERSION OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION NO 596/2014 WHICH IS PART OF ENGLISH LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018, AS AMENDED. ON PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT VIA A REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE, THIS INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.\n \n9 April 2024\n \nGreat Southern Copper plc\n(\"GSC\" or the \"Company\")\n \nDrilling Results at Teresita and Abundante Prospects\n \nResults confirm Intrusive-related and breccia-hosted mineralisation systems with all drill holes intersecting anomalous gold and copper mineralisation\n \nGreat Southern Copper plc (LSE: GSCU), the company focused on copper-gold-lithium exploration in Chile, is pleased to announce that final results have been received and assessed for its scout RC drilling programmes at the Abundante and Teresita prospects.\n \nHighlights:\n· All assay results received for 1018m reconnaissance drilling comprising 15 scout RC holes completed across two prospect areas at GSC's Especularita prospect\n· All scout RC holes intersected anomalous gold and copper mineralisation\n· Results strongly support and validate the IRGS target model at Teresita and provide significant impetus for follow-up exploration\n· Significant intercepts (including previously reported results)1 include;\n§ ESP23RC002: 17m at 0.52% Cu from 24m\n· Incl, 4m of 0.97% Cu from 30m\n§ ESP23RC004: 21m at 0.31% Cu from 19m\n· Incl, 1m of 1.83% Cu from 38m\n§ ESP23RC010: 20m at 0.57g/t Au, 5.48g/t Ag and 0.43% Cu from 35m\n· Incl, 3m at 1.1 g/t Au, 8.71g/t Ag and 0.79% Cu from 39m and,\n· And 3m at 1.65g/t Au, 9.03g/t Ag and 0.69% Cu from 48m\n§ ESP23RC015: 6m at 0.48% Cu from 7m, and\n· Incl, 1m at 2.12% Cu from 10m\n· Coincident anomalous As-Bi-Co-Sb-Te provides important pathfinder geochemistry for follow-up exploration at Teresita and further supports the IRGS model\n \nNext Steps: \nAssay results from scout RC drilling have confirmed the IRGS model type for mineralisation at Teresita where high-grade gold and copper is hosted in quartz-sulphide veins that are over-printed near...