The Antipa Minerals Ltd (ASX: AZY) share price is going gangbusters today following news of freshly discovered high-grade mineral intersections.
The Antipa share price reached an intraday high of 3.9 cents around midday – a 39% gain from yesterday’s close. Since then, it has retreated to 3.7 cents, up 32%.
Let’s look closer at the miner’s announcement today.
Striking gold
Antipa advised this morning that a drilling program at its 100% owned Minayari and WACA mines has found significant mineral intersections.
These intersections include high-grade gold and copper, as well as significant zones of gold, copper, silver and cobalt. All were found outside existing mineral resource boundaries.
The company considers the newly found mineral resources to be analogues for the nearby Havieron Project.
Of the 6 holes making up the drilling program, only 1 was deeper than the top of the Havieron Project. While the 5 holes were far shallower than the Havieron Project, 4 struck high-grade copper, gold and silver breccia mineralisation.
Antipa plans to conduct a follow-up drilling program this month.
Further drilling and testing will continue at Minayari throughout 2021.
Commentary from management
Antipa’s managing director Roger Mason said the find confirmed the potential for a stand-alone development.
We are particularly excited given the similarities between Minyari and Havieron (gold-copper development project), with the Minyari mineralisation hosted by the same rocks, with intense intrusion related hydrothermal alteration and very high‐grade gold-copper sulphide breccia style mineralisation occurring over a similar ‘footprint’ to Havieron.
The mineralisation remains open in all directions which, together with the several untested Minyari geophysical anomalies, provides a very exciting framework for this year’s Minyari Dome Project exploration programme which will be the largest programme we have ever undertaken at Minyari.
Antipa Minerals share price snapshot
The Antipa Mineral share price isn’t enjoying 2021 on the ASX. Even with today’s gains, it’s down 10% year to date. Although, it has gained 260% since this time last year.
The miner has a market capitalisation of around $70 million, with 2.5 billion shares outstanding.
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