Chanach Drilling Success Raises Questions on Resource Expansion and Development Pathways
RTG Mining’s 2025 drilling campaign at the Chanach Copper-Gold Project reveals multiple high-grade copper and gold intercepts beyond the existing resource base, underscoring the project’s significant expansion potential.
- 4,300m diamond drilling campaign delivers high-grade copper and gold intercepts
- New mineralization identified outside existing JORC resource boundaries
- Significant oxide copper zone discovered on northern anomaly’s southern edge
- High-grade gold intercepts found at depth and within blind magnetic and skarn targets
- Further drilling planned to delineate and expand promising targets
Exploration Momentum Builds at Chanach
RTG Mining Inc. has reported encouraging results from its 2025 diamond drilling program at the Chanach Copper-Gold Project in the Kyrgyz Republic. The campaign, comprising 4,300 metres of drilling, has delivered a series of high-grade copper and gold intercepts that extend beyond the boundaries of the existing JORC-compliant inferred resource. This progress highlights the potential for Chanach to evolve into a substantial mineral field with multiple styles of mineralization.
Key Discoveries and Geological Insights
Among the standout results is Hole DD25-01, which intercepted a significant oxide copper zone on the southern edge of a northern chargeable geophysical anomaly. This zone, with intercepts such as 59.9 metres at 0.67% copper including higher-grade sections exceeding 1% copper, suggests a sizeable copper mineralized area that warrants further drilling. Complementing this, deep gold mineralization was encountered in Hole DD25-03 on the periphery of the main anomaly, with impressive grades including 3.4 metres at 15.3 grams per tonne gold.
Additional high-grade gold intercepts were recorded in Hole DD25-04 targeting a blind magnetic anomaly, and in skarn targets (Holes DD25-07 and DD25-09) where combined gold and copper mineralization was identified. These skarn zones, mapped over several kilometres, remain open along strike and at depth, presenting exciting exploration upside.
Strategic Implications and Next Steps
RTG’s CEO Justine Magee expressed confidence in the campaign’s outcomes, emphasizing the success of drilling outside the existing resource base and the strong strike rate of high-grade intercepts. The company plans to continue step-out drilling to better define the extent of mineralization, particularly in the oxide copper zone, blind magnetic targets, and skarn areas. Further structural mapping and geophysical interpretation will support resource model development following the completion of assay results.
While the current results are promising, the true widths of mineralized zones remain to be established, and full assay results from the remaining drill holes are expected within the next 6 to 8 weeks. These forthcoming data will be critical in refining resource estimates and assessing economic viability.
Broader Context for RTG Mining
Chanach is one of several projects in RTG Mining’s portfolio, which also includes the advancing Mabilo Project and the Panguna Project in Bougainville. The company’s experienced management team has a track record of developing mines internationally, and these exploration successes at Chanach add to RTG’s growth narrative as it seeks to transition into a producing copper-gold company.
Bottom Line?
RTG’s expanding footprint at Chanach signals a compelling exploration story, but the market awaits full assay results to gauge the project’s true scale and value.
Questions in the middle?
- What will the final assay results reveal about the continuity and true widths of mineralization?
- How will RTG prioritize follow-up drilling across the multiple promising targets identified?
- What are the potential timelines and capital requirements for advancing Chanach towards development?
