Prismo Metals (CSE: PRIZ, FRA: 7KU, WKN: A2QEGD) has commissioned Windfall Geotek Inc. to analyze the geophysical data from the Hot Breccia Copper Project. An integrated analysis of individual drill hole data with topographic and geophysical data is planned. This comprehensive analysis is made possible by Windfall Geotek’s AI-based, proprietary system.
Dr. Craig Gibson, Prismo Metals’ Chief Exploration Officer, believes that the Hot Breccia Project, located in southern Arizona, is an ideal site for the application of Windfall Geotek’s AI-based analysis system, as Hot Breccia lies within a world-renowned copper belt and is surrounded by several well-explored, world-class copper mines. These include the Christmas, Morenci, Ray, and Resolution mines.
Hot Breccia exhibits numerous geological similarities. These include, in particular, an accumulation of porphyry dikes and a series of breccia pipes containing numerous fragments of well-copper-mineralized rocks. These are mixed with fragments of volcanic and sedimentary rock originating from considerable depth.
Prismo Metals Opts for Collaboration with Market Leader
Because the software used by Windfall Geotek can identify differences and similarities between Hot Breccia and the surrounding projects faster and more thoroughly than a human team is capable of, Prismo Metals’ intended priority development of this highly promising project can be vigorously advanced further this year. The analysis results are expected to be available as early as the beginning of September. This brings Prismo Metals’ overarching goal of drilling at least 5,000 meters at Hot Breccia as quickly as possible within reach.
Montreal, Canada-based Windfall Geotek is the ideal partner for this, as the company offers its services to mining and technology service companies and has been a leader in the application of artificial intelligence in the exploration of new deposits since 2005. Due to years of experience and continuous machine learning, the software used by Windfall offers a significant advantage over other providers: it can not only quickly analyze very large amounts of data but also effectively recognize complex geological patterns.
Overarching Goal: Finding the Best Drill Sites for Planned In-House Drilling
Drill holes sunk by a Rio Tinto subsidiary in the second half of the 1970s intersected high-grade copper mineralization at depths of 640 to 830 meters. They are currently considered by Prismo Metals to be the edge of the upper part of a large mineralized system.
This thesis is based on historical drilling with copper grades of 0.54% over 23 meters at a depth of 640 meters, 1.4% copper and 4.65% zinc over 18 meters at a depth of 830 meters, as well as 1.73% copper and 0.11% zinc at a depth of 703 meters. These results now need to be confirmed, expanded, and summarized into an NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate as quickly as possible using modern exploration methods and in-house drilling.
Particularly encouraging is that the mineralization occurs in a several hundred-meter-thick altered zone embedded in favorable Paleozoic carbonate rocks. These carbonates are the same rocks that host the high-grade copper mineralization at Freeport’s “Near Christmas” mine.
Since the work carried out by Prismo Metals in recent months has revealed numerous similarities with the geological conditions at the surrounding mines, it is logical to merge all this proprietary data with that known from neighboring projects and create a comprehensive analysis. With its help, it should then be possible to determine the most interesting target areas for new, in-house drilling.
