Noronex Limited has kicked off its new Namibian exploration campaign with a bang, after the first hole at the company’s Powerline project tagged a potentially broad copper-silver horizon exactly as predicted.
The prospect forms part of the company’s broader Humpback–Damara grounds, which span a huge 8500 square kilometres across the west African country. The company is now halfway through a 7,000m reverse circulation (RC) drill program with 15 holes completed to an average depth of 233m.
However, it was the first hole that really got tongues wagging. Drilled 300m northeast of a controlling structure known as the Steenbok Dome, the hole was designed to test the key contact zone between the deeper Ngwana Pan (NPF) and shallower D’Kar formations at the hinge of an anticline.
The fabled NPF–D’Kar horizon stretches for roughly 300 kilometres and is widely recognised as the copper-silver sweet spot of the Kalahari Copper Belt.
Assays from the breakthrough hole returned a 9-metre intersection grading 0.45 per cent copper and 43 grams per tonne (g/t) silver from 294m, sitting within a broader 13-metre zone running 0.38 per cent copper and 38g/t silver. The mineralised samples lit up as fine-grained chalcocite threaded through the host rocks, hinting at what could be a sizeable contact-linked system.