Hot Chili tipping the scales

A maiden mineral resource estimate for ASX-listed Hot Chili’s Cortadera copper porphyry deposit has pushed the greater Costa Fuego copper project to become a leading global resource.

The Cortadera maiden mineral resource of 451-million tonnes, at 0.46% copper equivalent, has taken the total mineral resource estimate for the greater Costa Fuego project to 724-million tonnes, at 0.48% copper equivalent for some 2.9-million tonnes of contained copper, 2.7-million ounces of gold, 9.9-million ounces of silver and 64 000 t of molybdenum.