C29 Metals Ltd (ASX:C29) will fly a project-wide aeromagnetic and radiometric survey over the Stadlers Project in Western Australia, intending to generate a detailed model of the structural controls on potential copper mineralisation for the tenure.
C29’s contractor will fly a fixed-wing aircraft in 50-metre north-south line spacing, with east-west tie lines every 500 metres for a total of 1,410 line kilometres.
The survey is designed to cover the entire exploration licence at Stadlers and is expected to take about three days to complete.
“It’s been a slow start at Stadlers due to external factors,” C29 Metals executive director Mark Major said. “We are now getting stuck in with some potentially discovery-based exploration.
"We understand the limitations in the historical exploration data, however, we are excited with the high-grade geochemistry over the area.”
The survey will begin on October 13, with results expected to be received within 30 days following completion.
Generating a pipeline of drill-targets
“The acquisition of new geophysical and geochemical datasets will allow the company to move into a new phase at the Stadlers Project, ranking prospects according to known prospectivity indicators and then performing targeted geophysics,” Major continued.
“Ultimately, our goal is to define a pipeline of drill-ready targets at Stadlers and begin systematically testing these and hopefully a discovery.
“There is a lot of smoke in this system and if we can find the main source or collector zones, it will be a great win for the company and its shareholders.”
The C29 exploration team is also finalising a tenement-scale soil geochemical sampling project at Stadlers, seeking to employ a broad approach to generating new exploration targets in untested areas of the project.