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ORIGINAL: Universal Copper Drill Hole ends in Open-Ended Intercept of 129m @ 0.685%CuEq
2022-03-23 06:30 ET - News Release
Vancouver, British Columbia, March 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Universal Copper Ltd. ("Universal Copper" or the "Company")(TSX Venture: UNV)(Frankfurt: 3TA2) is pleased to report additional drill results from the 2021 diamond drilling program at the Company's flagship Poplar Copper Deposit ("Poplar"), located southwest of Houston, British Columbia. All drill targets in the Poplar copper-gold exploration district are shallow and road accessible, within 88 km of rail infrastructure.
Highlights:
- Hole 21-PC-135 - 492.7 metres at 0.37% copper equivalent (CuEq)- 0.288% copper, 0.09 g/t gold and 4.16 g/t silver
- including 78 metres at 0.55% CuEq - 0.391% copper, 0.13 g/t gold and 12.01 g/t silver
- and including the bottom 129 metres at 0.685% CuEq - 0.546% copper, 0.15 g/t gold and 6.94 g/t silver
- Hole 21-PC-136 - 45 metres at 0.56% CuEq - 0.430% copper, 0.17 g/t gold and 3.81 g/t silver and a second interval of 24 metres at 0.68% CuEq - 0.514% copper, 0.19 g/t gold and 6.86 g/t silver
Clive Massey, Universal Copper's CEO, stated: "An open-ended, high grade copperinterceptin the bottom129 metres of drill hole 135supports our new interpretation that the system is tilted and that the high-grade zone plunges eastward.Today's results, along with the recent robust copper grades released on January 18th, 2022, and January 25th, 2022, represent significant positiveprogress for the Poplar Project. Universal Copper is focused on leveraging our new exploration model and buildingthe Poplar Project into a premier deposit in a metal endowed, road/rail accessibleemerging exploration district in a top-tier jurisdiction".
Table 1. 21-PC-135 and 21-PC-136 Intersections
HOLE | FROM | TO | LENGTH | Cu | Mo | Au | Ag | CuEQ* |
ID | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (%) | (g/t) | (g/t) | (%) |
21-PC-135 | 258 | 336 | 78 | 0.390 | 0.000 | 0.13 | 12.01 | 0.554 |
21-PC-135 | 369 | 498 | 129 | 0.546 | 0.001 | 0.15 | 6.94 | 0.685 |
21-PC-135 | 5.3 | 498 | 492.7 | 0.288 | 0.001 | 0.09 | 4.16 | 0.374 |
21-PC-136 | 237 | 282 | 45 | 0.430 | 0.002 | 0.17 | 3.81 | 0.561 |
21-PC-136 | 345 | 369 | 24 | 0.514 | 0.001 | 0.19 | 6.86 | 0.678 |
21-PC-136 | 417 | 432 | 15 | 0.375 | 0.005 | 0.09 | 3.26 | 0.470 |