Vancouver The first hole of an ongoing drilling campaign by Odyssey Resources (ODX-V) has intersected 73 metres averaging 0.7% copper and 11.2 grams silver per tonne, starting from surface to a depth of 73 metres (true thickness), at the Alous deposit on the company’s Anti Atlas property in western Morocco.
Alous is one of several targets at the company’s Anti Atlas copper-silver property in the North African nation. The land package covers a number of historic prospects and deposits previously explored by other companies. In the late 1960s, Occidental Minerals explored the Alous deposit by drilling, trenching and underground programs that outlined a historic resource of 5.3 million tonnes grading 0.89% copper and 12.12 grams silver within the A, B, and C zones. This estimate pre-dates and is not compliant with National Instrument 43-101 reporting standards.
The Alous copper-silver deposit is exposed on the flanks of a rhyolite dome intruded into mafic volcanic rocks. Odyssey’s ongoing drill program includes 10 holes at Zone A, five holes at Zone B, and three holes at Zone C, for a total of about 1,000 metres. Results from five other holes are expected shortly, with the remainder to follow.
Odyssey is also drilling the Tavsan epithermal gold property in Turkey, where more than 100 holes totaling about 2,800 metres are planned on a 100-metre grid. The holes will test a 3-km strike length of a largely surface-exposed, shallow-dipping slab of gold-bearing jasperoid, the bulk of which has never been tested by previous drilling campaigns. The company also plans to drill-test the Main zone, which hosts a historic resource outlined by a previous operator.
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