Tennant Minerals has completed further drilling at its Bluebird copper-gold discovery in the Northern Territory.
The results continue to expand the discovery to the east, producing substantial copper intersection with gold.
Bluebird is located within Tennant’s 100 per cent owned Barkly project on the eastern side of the Tennant Creek Mineral Field. The area produced over 5.5 million ounces of gold and 700,000 tonnes of copper from 1934 to 2005.
Tennant said that the mineralisation intersected at Bluebird is of typical high-grade copper-gold orebodies that have been previously mined in the area.
“Drilling to date has now identified copper-gold mineralisation at Bluebird over a 500m strike length and from 75m below surface to over 250m depth,” Tennant said in a statement.
“The company has the dual approach of defining the resource potential of the Bluebird discovery as well as testing other targets within the Bluebird-Perseverance corridor.”
Tennant is planning for further drilling in the area to expand and define the discovered shallow extensions of the mineralisation and will also test new induced polarisation low-resistivity targets to the east and west.