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Norfolk Metals has taken stock of initial assays from its maiden drilling program at the Carmen project in Chile's copper-rich Huasco Province, delivering 53m at 1.1% copper from only 62m downhole. Carmen sits tantalisingly close to mining giant Newmont's multi-billion-dollar joint venture development of the Relincho and Fortuna deposits, which host 16.6 billion pounds of copper.

Norfolk Metals is re-assaying old copper core for gold at its Carmen project in Chile as it seeks to verify historic drill results and exploit a new zone that is sporting visible copper outcrops. The project is in Chile's copper-rich Atacama region where fresh targets are now emerging in the nearby Higueritas Belt.

Chilean mining expert David Fowler has joined the Norfolk Metals' board as a non-executive director to help develop the company's recently acquired Carmen copper project near La Serena in Chile. Norfolk has drilled 20 holes in its 50-hole maiden drilling program targeting a near-surface supergene copper resource at Carmen, which may be amenable to heap leaching.