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Exploration Update – Zambia
Exploration Update – Zambia.
About this update from Tertiary Minerals Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n10 August 2023\n*\nTertiary Minerals plc\n(\"Tertiary\" or \"the Company\")\nExploration Update - Zambia - Soil Sampling Programme Commences\n \nFollowing the receipt of forest permits announced on 31 July 2023, Tertiary Minerals plc (AIM: TYM), is pleased to announce the start of soil sampling and to provide the following update on its Zambian copper exploration projects.\n \nKey Point Summary:\n \nKonkola West Project \n· Interpretation of airborne geophysical data provided by KoBold Metals has now identified areas in the north and northwest of the licence where the target Lower Roan formation - the main host to copper mineralisation on the Zambian Copperbelt - may be shallower and less steeply dipping than on the eastern side of the licence.\n \n· Soil sampling is now underway to explore higher up in the sequence with approximately 260 soil samples due to be collected over the next few days. Soil samples will be analysed in the field using a portable XRF (\"pXRF\") analyser and follow up infill sampling will be carried out as appropriate.\n \n· Konkola West lies immediately west of the Konkola-Lubambe-Musoshi copper mining licences and potentially contains downdip extensions of the laterally continuous Lower Roan ore shale horizon on the east side of the licence.\n \nMukai Project\n· Soil sampling will commence at Mukai immediately after completion of work at Konkola West.\n \n· Mukai adjoins First Quantum Minerals' (\"FQM\") Trident Project licences which include the large Sentinel copper mine and the recently opened Enterprise nickel mine.\n \n· Approximately 310 soil samples will be collected on a 300m x 100m grid with additional infill sampling to test a historic soil anomaly in favourable stratigraphy along strike of FQM's Tirosa Prospect where FQM has drilled up to its licence boundary with Mukai.\n \nMushima North Project\n· Mushima North is located east of the high grade Kalengwa Copper Mine and numerous targets have been identified for both iron-oxide-copper-gold (\"IOCG\") mineralisation and conventional Copperbelt style mineralisation.\n \n· Soil sampling at Mushima North is currently scheduled to follow on from th...