Kalimantan Gold says latest study confirms copper potential of KSK project
11 November 2009
Kalimantan Gold, the mining group working in Indonesia, has reported that analysis of geophysical data from its KSK Contract of Work project in Central Kalimantan has confirmed the potential for major porphyry copper deposits.
This is good news for Kalimantan, which lost its potential earn-in partner Oxonia in December 2007 after US$2.5 million of exploration and development work failed to turn up a major breakthrough.
The latest analysis by Dr Peter Pollard reaffirmed the potential for significant copper mineralization within the project area. In particular, Pollard noted that the 2007 exploration programme by Oxiana was focused on finding near-surface deposits by drilling shallow holes and that “they were not going after bigger picture targets”.
Pollard said the latest study confirmed that the KSK CoW has a lot of “untested potential” and Kalimantan Gold “needs to bring in a partner with an excellent understanding of porphyry copper exploration to properly test the identified targets.”
Kalimantan said it was actively showing the KSK CoW to a number of interested large mining companies.
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