Flor de Cobre is a copper porphyry located in the Southern Peru Copper Belt, 45 km south of Arequipa. Some of the world's largest copper-molybdenum porphyry deposits and mines including Cerro Verde (Freeport), Cuajone, Toquepala (Southern Copper), and Quellaveco (Anglo/Mitsubishi) reside in the Southern Peru Copper Belt.
Flor de Cobre is located ~30 km southeast of the large copper mine at Cerro Verde and ~7 km northwest of the Chapi copper mine.
The Flor de Cobre property includes two copper porphyry targets: (1) Candelaria, a copper prospect identified in the 1930’s and the site of a historical small-scale mining operation, and (2) Atravesado, a large 1.5 km x 1.6km area.
In 2022, the Company completed a 4,532 metre twelve-hole drill program at the Candelaria target area. Nine of the holes in the drill program twinned nine historical drill holes with results allowing the Company to use historical information as part of a drill hole dataset for the estimate of a mineral resource estimate expected to be published in the coming months. Three of the holes tested the primary copper sulphide mineralization potential below the supergene enrichment blanket to depth of more than 500 metres. The Candelaria target area has a historical copper resource estimate of 57.4 million tonnes of 0.67% copper* associated with a supergene enrichment blanket.
On September 7, 2022 Element 29 releases final results from Flor de Cobre drill program, including 329.4 metres of 0.56% copper
On June 6, 2022 Element 29 Completes Validation Of Flor De Cobre Historical Drilling And Will Proceed With Mineral Resource Estimation
On June 1, 2022 Element 29 further confirms past drill results used in historical copper resource estimate at Flor de Cobre
On April 19, 2022 Element 29 drills 349.0 metres of 0.77% copper including 12.0 metres of 1.42% copper as enrichment at Flor de Cobre
On February 3, 2022 Element 29 commences drilling at its Flor de Cobre Copper Project
* The source of the historical resource estimate is a press release issued by Rio Amarillo Mining Ltd. dated November 15, 1996 (Rio Amarillo Mining Ltd., November 15th, 1996: Aija Property Drill Results). This historical resource is relevant to Flor de Cobre as it suggests supergene-enriched mineralization of interest may be present at Candelaria. The parameters, assumptions, and methods used to calculate the historical estimate are unknown. Additionally, the historical estimate does not use resource categories described in CIM Definition Standards for Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (2014). It is also unclear what portion of this historical resource estimate is within the current Flor de Cobre property configuration. A qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimate as a current mineral resource, and it is unclear what work might be required to confirm the resource. For these reasons, the historical resource should not be relied upon. The Company is not treating the historical estimate as a current mineral resource.
Project - Flor de Cobre
