Alma Metals plans to soon begin a core-drilling program to both upgrade and expand the copper-molybdenum resource at its flagship Briggs pro

Alma Metals’ core logging and portable XRF analysis at its Briggs project has turned up a few surprises. Credit: File Alma Metals has extended the higher-grade copper-molybdenum mineralisation strike at the Central Zone within its Briggs project in Queensland to about 500m, with new drill hits including 161m at 0.29 per cent copper and 71 parts per million moly from 22m. The company says the intercept gleaned from a four-diamond-drillhole campaign is part of a longer 242.4m z

Alma Metals managing director Frazer Tabeart, right, at the company’s Briggs project in Queensland. Credit: File Alma Metals has revealed a new 32.8m diamond drill hit of 0.78 per cent copper mineralisation across the contact between the granodiorite intrusion and enclosing volcanics at its Briggs project in Queensland. The hole tested the south-eastern margin of the company’s Briggs Central resource zone and management says the results further validate its concept of elevate

Alma Metals copper-bearing porphyry outcrop at Briggs. Credit: File Alma Metals has expanded the Briggs, Mannersley and Fig Tree Hill joint venture (JV) it shares with Canterbury Resources in central Queensland after grabbing two new exploration permits adjacent to the project. The JV ground includes the Briggs porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit that contains an inferred mineral resource of 415 million tonnes at 0.25 per cent copper and 31 parts per million molybdenum – imply

An Alma Metals diamond core rig at its Briggs Central zone. Credit: File Two diamond-core holes drilled by Alma Metals into the central zone of its Briggs porphyry copper-molybdenum project in Central Queensland have defined thick mineralisation extending from surface through almost the full 200m hole depths. The company says its latest run of assays further support the possibility for bringing to life its previous visions of a shallow, high-grade initial open pit. It says th

Core from Alma Metals’ Briggs copper deposit. Credit: File. Alma Metals has achieved the stage one earn-in requirements to reach an initial 30 per cent interest in Canterbury Resources’ Briggs, Mannersley and Fig Tree Hill joint venture copper project in Queensland. Alma has placed an exploration target of between 480m and 880m tonnes on Briggs alone, grading between .20 and .30 per cent copper with between 25 and 40ppm moly – and that’s in addition to the existing 415m tonne

Alma Metals soil sampling efforts have grown its copper anomaly in Queensland. Credit: File Soil sampling by WA-based explorer Alma Metals at its Briggs project in Queensland has expanded its soil copper anomaly out to 2300m long and 1000m wide, with readings of more than 500 parts per million copper. Management says the work has allowed it to revise its target of 480 million tonnes to 880 million tonnes at between 0.20 per cent and 0.30 per cent copper and 25ppm to 40ppm mol

A new entry into the top 10 copper resource club

Alma Metals is growing its Briggs copper project in a big way and there is more to come. Credit: File Alma Metals was up 70 per cent after tabling a resource upgrade at its Briggs copper project in Queensland that smashed through the million-tonne contained copper mark and added molybdenum for the first time to the tune of 28.6m pounds. Alma says Briggs has now clawed its way into the top 10 largest undeveloped copper plays in Australia in terms of contained metal. The global

Alma Metals’ drilling campaign in Central Queensland is yet to find the edge of the system. Credit: File Alma Metals has expanded the reach of its Briggs copper project in Central Queensland, with its latest assays extending the known limits by more than 150m from the boundary of the current inferred resource. The company has revealed its latest drillhole produced a 366m intersection going 0.23 per cent copper and 28 parts per million molybdenum from just 6m. An updated resou

Drilling is paying dividends for Alma Metals at its Briggs copper project in Central Queensland. Credit: File Alma Metals has unveiled wide zones of copper-molybdenum sulphides mineralisation after its latest round of drilling targeted areas outside the current resource at its Briggs copper project in Central Queensland. Management says a significant resource upgrade is now on the cards after the latest results extended its known mineralisation area by 190m to the north-west

Alma Metals’ Frazer Tabeart (right) with exploration manager Steve Konecny inspect drill core at its Briggs copper project. Credit: File A change in strategy appears to be close to paying dividends for Alma Metals after it read the global energy tea leaves and shifted from African coal to instead zero in on a big Queensland copper find. The $13.25 million market-capped company is bearing down on an easy-mining, shallow porphyry deposit at its Briggs copper project, just 50km