Queensland Mining Corporation (ASX:QMN) Duck Creek Copper Project
Sydney, Sep 8, 2011 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Queensland Mining Corporation (
ASX:QMN) is pleased to announce that the planned RC drilling program on the Duck Creek region copper project, which is located about 30km southwest of Cloncurry in northwest Queensland, has been completed. 52 RC holes for a total of 4,377 m were drilled in this campaign.
The drilling program commenced on 9 July 2011 and took longer to complete due to power and mechanical issues with the drilling rig outside the control of QMN.
The drilling was principally concentrated on two prospects:
1. Horseshoe project area - QMN's 100% owned MLs. - this area includes Horseshoe, Dulce, New Dollar and the Mountain Maid. The Horseshoe lease has been historically mined and the open pit measures 140m long and 40m wide. 14 holes totalling 1,460m were drilled at Horseshoe and about 50% of the holes reported visible copper mineralization up to 33m downhole width, however, true width is about 50% of the downhole width.
2. 'Goldsearch'EPM 13336, QMN earning in to 70%.
Drilling was carried out during July and August 2011 over the Forget-Me-Not area where 16 RC holes for a total of 1,095m were completed. The program was designed mainly to test the strike and down dip extensions of the known mineralization plus a newly mapped structural splay 50m off the main Forget-Me-Not trend in the north.
Visible copper mineralization in the form of malachite and chalcopyrite was logged in 10 out of the 16 holes with the widest interval of up to 10m (true width is about 70% of downhole width).
Assay results from the drilling program are expected during October 2011.
The Forget-Me-Not area was initially drilled by QMN in 2008 where 14 RC holes for a total of 658m were completed with the best intersections being 20m @ 1.24% Cu and 0.1g/t Au and 12m @ 1.63% Cu and 0.17 g/t Au.
What's ahead. The Company is planning a drill program on a number of priority projects targets in the South Cloncurry Project Region including the White Range project at:
- Greenmount ML (including Surprise and Pete's) for gold/copper and copper respectively.
- Young Australian MLs; Trump ML; Answer ML re copper/gold.
- Two IOCG targets at Just There and Black Fort.
Mt Freda gold project- QMN has planned 1,200m of deeper diamond drilling and approximately 1,600m of RC drilling to assist in mine planning and to increase the total resource.
QMN has engaged a diamond and multipurpose drill rig to carry out the drilling program.
QMN is looking forward to encouraging results from its drilling program and which should add further to the copper oxide, sulphide resource categories and the gold inventory of its South Cloncurry Project region.
Contact
Howard V. Renshaw
Managing Director
Tel: +61-2-9251-6730
Email: admin@qmcl.com.au
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