Int's Barytex cuts high-grade copper at Shituru

摘要

VANCOUVER - A couple of hot stepout holes at International Barytex Resources' (IBX-V, IBYXFO) Shituru project, near Likasi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have delivered high-grade copper values over significant widths. Drilling tapped the steeply dipping zones of stratiform copper-cobalt mineralization, and included the following holes: SM-05-06 intersected 10.2 metres (from 10 metres depth) of 3.3 percent copper and 0.11 percent cobalt in a newly defined zone, followed by 80.7 metres (from 30 metres downhole) grading 6.1 percent copper and 0.03 percent cobalt (in both the upper andlower zones) including high-grade sections of 13.5 percent copper over 18.2 metres; and SM-06-06 returned a 10.4-metre interval in the new zone (from 16.8 metres) averaging 2.1 percent copper, then cut 58.2 metres (from 38 metres) of combined upper and lower-zone mineralization running 5.6 percent copper, including a 16.8-metre portion at 10.8 percent copper.