TechGen Metals Unearths New Copper-Gold Zones in Heritage Survey at Blue Devil Project
TechGen Metals (ASX: TG1) has identified two new high-grade and parallel copper-gold structural zones in a maiden on-ground heritage survey at its underexplored Blue Devil project in Western Australia.
The structurally-controlled copper gossans and iron quartz gold zones sit approximately 80 metres apart and 12 rock chip samples TechGen collected from the area returned best grades of 52.3% copper and 5.35 grams per tonne gold.
TechGen acquired the highly-prospective Blue Devil project in early 2024 for minimal outlay.
Follow-Up Survey
TechGen will use an induced polarisation survey to follow-up the results and further explore the gossanous style of mineralisation, which contains high levels of copper-gold-silver elements including sulphur and phosphorus.
The company hopes to generate new drill targets to add to the 2.75 kilometre Blue Devil intrusion-related copper-gold target geophysics work had previously identified.
Blue Devil has never been drill tested and the company believes this provides it with a rare greenfield opportunity to deliver a new discovery with meaningful scale potential and key targets extending over almost 3km.
Historical Work
Previous work at the Blue Devil tenement area focused on Mississippi Valley-type mineralisation including lead and zinc, rather than on copper and gold.
While the project area has seen no exploration since 2020, historical work returned rock chip values of 50.5% copper, 6.9 g/t gold and 53g/t silver.
“Given the nature of the copper/gold gossans, and the success of the use of induced polarisation (IP) at Mt Boggola, the company intends to run an IP survey over this new East Blue Devil area,” managing director Ashley Hood said.
Heritage Agreement
TechGen has completed a heritage survey at Blue Devil with the assistance of the traditional Jaru people, who previously confirmed their support through a Heritage Protection agreement the company signed in July.
The agreement is not just an important milestone in advancing exploration access for TechGen, but in fact a requisite to the granting of exploration licences by the Department of Mines, Petroleum and Exploration.
The survey aimed to identify potential vehicle access, track routes and priority electromagnetic targets for drill testing.
“The Jaru Board strongly supports our recently signed Heritage Protection agreement, and we look forward to ongoing relationships working together on the completion of the survey report in due course,” Mr Hood added.