JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Okiep in South Africa’s well-endowed Northern Cape is becoming the copper gift that just keeps on giving, with yet another new Intercept confirming copper continuity.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Orion Minerals described the results being generated from its resource optimisation drilling programme as validating its development strategy.
As part of the current drilling campaign at the Okiep Copper Project Flat Mine East prospect, the completed second drill hole takes in the OFMED158 intersection. (Also see above graphic).
These assay results confirm the down-dip continuity previously revealed by the OFMED157 drill hole, which uplifts understanding of the structural controls to mineralised mafic units. They build on the good outcomes of the 2024 confirmation drilling programme, which highlighted the endowment of the Flat Mines area, where the latest results are exemplified by the numbers 3.96 m at 4.64% copper.
“These outstanding new high-grade drilling results from the Okiep Copper Project further strengthen the potential upside at Flat Mine East,” Orion CEO Tony Lennox explained.
