Latest technologies in the search for new copper deposits in northern Oman are being applied by Savannah Resources, a London Stock Exchange-listed resources company, together with its Omani partners.
The innovative, technology-led strategy to explore copper includes using both ground and airborne geophysical surveys and has included a recently completed Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetics (VTEM), said a press statement.
The VTEM survey involved a helicopter flying over 3,700km at low altitude over lines some 100 metres apart whilst deploying high-tech sensors to capture technical information about the earth. The data are now being processed.
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VTEMmax survey has identified an untested potential northern extension of the zone which was obscured from historical airborne surveys by a powerline crossing the northern part of the property
The correlation of the preliminary ZTEM and seismic data is very encouraging at Esso West and this combination of surveys will aid in drill targeting.
A 12,000-meter to 14,000-meter diamond-drill program is being planned to test for the feeder zones for the near-surface epithermal gold mineralization and the porphyry system at depth using the three-dimensional geophysics interpretation of the BAM Project.
“The start of our exploration program on the recently acquired Charcoal and Castor uranium projects is an exciting development for Cosa.”