Hot Chili’s recently commenced 40,000-metre drilling campaign across its Costa Fuego project in northern Chile has posted an uber-impressive 382 metre copper intercept at its Cortadera porphyry deposit, which includes 80m at 0.6 per cent copper and 0.2 grams per tonne gold from 524m down-hole. The company already has two rigs running 24-7 and is set to add a third in the
Hot Chili’s ongoing drilling program has identified a second high-grade copper-gold core to its Cortadera porphyry in southern Chile. The latest results from the discovery include an extensive 248m intercept grading 0.4 per cent copper and 0.1 grams per tonne gold, hosting 32m at 0.6 per cent copper and 0.3 grams per tonne gold, from 446 metres down-hole.
RC pre-collars being drilled at the Cortadera discovery in central Chile. Credit: File
Hot Chili’s ongoing drilling program has identified a second high-grade copper-gold core to its Cortadera porphyry discovery in central Chile. Development drilling across the company’s Costa Fuego project area continues to produce some hugely impressively results from Cortadera including an extensive 248m intercept grading 0.4 per cent copper and 0.1 grams per tonne gold, including 32m at 0.6 per cent copper and 0.3 grams per tonne gold, from 446 metres down-hole.
Hot Chili is set to spice up its production profile in Chile after putting in place an agreement to ramp up the processing of copper ores from its Productora deposit at the nearby Vallenar mill. The agreement will see the company lift production from its underground mining operations at the high-grade deposit to 180,000 tonnes per annum, a 50 per cent increase on the current mining rate.
Decline development in underground mine operations. Credit: File
Hot Chili is set to spice up its production profile in Chile after putting in place an agreement to ramp up the processing of copper ores from its Productora deposit at the nearby Vallenar mill. The agreement will see the company lift production from its underground mining operations at the high-grade deposit to 180,000 tonnes per annum, a 50 per cent increase on the current mining rate.