Special Report: Alma Metals has reported more near-surface high grade results from core drilling at its Briggs copper project in Queensland, where over 1Mt of contained copper has been defined in inferred resources to date.
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Alma Metals’ (ASX:ALM) flagship Briggs porphyry copper deposit has an inferred resource of 415Mt at 0.25% copper and 31 parts per million molybdenum, and is just 60km from Queensland’s deep-water port of Gladstone.
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Alma Metals’ (ASX:ALM) flagship Briggs porphyry copper deposit currently has an inferred resource of 415Mt @ 0.25% copper and 31 parts per million (ppm) molybdenum – one of the largest copper and moly deposits in Australia.
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Recently completed core drilling at the Briggs project has intersected a thick zone of copper-molybdenum mineralisation from surface
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Alma's final assays from core drilling at its Briggs copper project in Central Queensland have proven beyond a doubt that a substantial upgrade to current resource is on the cards in the third quarter.
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Alma to keep rigs spinning at full throttle to grow copper resource at Briggs porphyry.
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