In a significant boost for Australia's resources sector, True North Copper has announced its most compelling copper results to date from the exciting Aquila discovery within its Mount Oxide project in northwest Queensland.
Exceptional Drill Results
The company's latest Phase 2 drilling has delivered outstanding outcomes, headlined by a 7-metre intercept grading an impressive 7.9% copper from just 134 metres down-hole. This exceptional result forms part of a broader 59-metre zone averaging 1.77% copper, 0.04% cobalt and 5.2 grams per tonne silver from the same depth.
Further enhancing the discovery's significance, this run includes 33 metres at 2.83% copper and 7.8g/t silver from 134 metres. Additional drilling has confirmed the mineralised system's substantial scale, with a second hole returning 23 metres at 1.09% copper, 0.03% cobalt and 2.7g/t silver from 171 metres, including an 8-metre section at 2.71% copper.
Expanding Mineral Footprint
Perhaps most notably for the project's future potential, these results have extended the known mineralised strike length by another 200 metres northwards. This expansion confirms the continuous copper footprint along the Aquila trend now exceeds 700 metres in length, with the mineralised system remaining completely open in all directions for further growth.
True North Copper Managing Director and CEO Andrew Mooney described the findings as exceptional, noting that "discoveries of this grade and scale in the Mt Isa region are rare" and that the results include "one of the strongest copper intercepts reported this year from a new discovery in Australia".
Rapid Development and Future Plans
What began as a greenfield discovery in July 2025, located just four kilometres northeast of the company's existing Vero resource, has rapidly evolved into a large-scale, high-grade copper-cobalt-silver system. The Aquila target was initially one of six priority prospects tested during True North's reverse circulation exploration drilling campaign launched in mid-May 2025.
With the 26-hole Phase 2 program now completed after 7074 metres of drilling, and sample analyses from the final 12 holes still awaited, True North is already planning its next steps. The company intends to conduct follow-up drilling at Aquila and extensional IP geophysics along the parallel Aquila-Apollo-Acanthus trends.
In a strengthening copper market, True North's Mount Oxide project continues to deliver promising discoveries in one of Australia's most richly endowed copper provinces, with the Aquila zone rapidly emerging as a potential company-making asset.
