True North Copper (TNC) announced its biggest drilling breakthrough to date at its Mt Oxide Project in north-west Queensland. The latest Aquila Discovery results confirm a new and substantial high-grade shoot zone within a continuous copper-cobalt-silver mineral system.
The headline result comes from hole MOX255, which intersected 59m at 1.77 per cent Cu, 0.04% Co, 5.2 grams per tonne (g/t) Ag from 134m, with a spectacular high-grade core of 7m at 7.9 per cent Cu, 0.02 per cent Co, 13.7g/t Ag from 134m. This latest drilling extends the confirmed mineralised strike length to over 700m, with mineralisation remaining open in all directions.
TNC‘s managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) Andrew Mooney said it is a game-changing discovery for the miner.
“Discoveries of this grade and scale in the Mt Isa region are rare, and it’s the kind of find an exploration geologist can spend a career looking for,” Mooney said. “The results at Aquila include one of the strongest copper intercepts reported this year from a new discovery in Australia.”
The phase 2 program successfully confirmed that strong copper mineralisation is highly correlated with modelled coincident chargeability and conductivity anomalies. Mineralisation is interpreted to be structurally controlled by the north-south-oriented Mount Gordon Fault Zone, the same setting that hosts nearby deposits in the Mt Isa Inlier.
With the phase 2 program now completed (7074m drilled), True North Copper is planning aggressively for next year. Assay results for the remaining 12 holes are pending, and planning is underway for the expanded 2026 follow-up and extensional drill program, which will target extensions below the new high-grade shoot zone and is expected to recommence in the second quarter of 2026.
