Long Shortz: True North Copper
Drilling at the Great Australia Mine in Cloncurry delivered new zones of mineralisation outside established resources as True North looks towards new mining, while early drilling at the Mt Oxide project delivered a discovery of high-grade copper, cobalt and silver as exploration continues across the portfolio and into the next quarter.
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