Carube Copper reports the results from drill holes PVT-17-005 and PVT-17-006, from the Provost Prospect within the 100% owned Bellas Gate Project in Jamaica. These holes were drilled in the recently completed 1,900m diamond drill campaign. Results from three additional holes which tested other parts of the mineralized trend are pending.
Results from PVT-17-005 and PVT-17-006 include:
- Continuous copper mineralization over 191m downhole to 324m in hole PVT-17-005, with 74m of 0.50%CuEq1 (0.35%Cu and 0.24g/t Au); and
-Continuous copper mineralization over 201.8m from 32.2m downhole in PVT-17-006, with 46m of 0.50%CuEq1 (0.31%Cu and 0.29 g/t Au)
Jeff Ackert, President and CEO of Carube Copper commented, “The mineralization at Provost has now been seen in five holes and the footprint covers an area with minimum dimensions of 350 by 250 metres, within a 5 kilometre long mineralized trend extending from the Camel Porphyry in the south to the Hendley Prospect to the north. The fact that we are seeing mostly highly altered and mineralized volcanic rock close to surface in these holes, supports the initial modelling that indicates the causative or driver porphyry may lie below the central part of the zone. We are quite eager to test this model in our next program with a series of deeper holes.”
The drilling in this program was focused on the Southern Alteration Zone (SAZ), which is a 5 kilometre long trend between the known Camel Porphyry in the south to the Hendley Prospect in the north.
Carube is focused on the exploration and development of copper and gold projects in Jamaica and Canada.