Marimaca Copper (TSX: MARI; ASX: MC2) shares soared to a new 15-year high Thursday on the release of copper sulphide drill results as high as 6 metres grading 12% copper at its Pampa Medina project in northern Chile.
That intercept, drilled from 594 metres depth in hole SMRD-13, included 26 metres at 4.1% copper and 100 metres grading 1.3% copper, Marimaca said in a statement. Another hole, SMD-02, cut 132 metres at 1% copper from 278 metres, including 40 metres grading 2.1% copper.
The project is about 25 km west of the company’s main Marimaca Oxide Deposit (MOD) and 1,250 km north of the capital Santiago.
“Game changer, particularly for the sulphide intercepts,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Dalton Baretto said in a note. “The Pampa Medina discovery could be very synergistic with the main Marimaca Oxide Deposit, given [its] proximity and the ability to share infrastructure [and] we see options…
