The Mount Isa East Copper Project is an early-stage regional exploration play for copper (+gold) centered between Mt Isa and Cloncurry, a base metal region synonymous with world-class copper and zinc deposits.
- Revolution has secured a large tenement package (Five (5) tenements covering ~1,200 square kilometers) east of Mount Isa covering the margin of the Eastern Succession within a sought-after mineral field for base-metal style exploration which is well supported by existing infrastructure.
- The project is prospective for IOCG and shear hosted copper (and gold) mineralization and Copper mineralization is relatively common in the tenement. Many small-scale prospector mines and test pits are present in the area. These operations would have sold high grade copper ore to Mount Is Mines.
- Revolution’s primary objective at Mt Isa East is to discover and plan development pathways for Cu-Au resources. Despite the area being previously explored by surface geochemistry, there is an obvious lack of drilling in zones of known copper mineralization. A number of prospects can be considered more advanced and close to drill ready, whilst a larger number of conceptual targets exist within a large tenement area. Revolution propose to conduct significant greenfields exploration over the entire tenure to locate and rank new prospects.
- Recent exploration by Syndicated Metals and Hammer Metals has mapped clear pathways to exploration success in the area. In many new discoveries, regional geochemical and historical datasets did not define the deposit (e.g., Barbara Resource) as a Cu anomaly. The deposits are defined through conceptual target selection based on a detailed understanding of mapped geology, structure and conceptual mineralization models tested through systematic soil and rock chip sampling to define Cu targets worthy of further exploration.
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