BeMetals Corp. announced results of drill hole D22-C1 at the D-Prospect of the Pangeni Copper Project. The Company also reports completion of the 2023 phases of drilling at the Kato and Todoroki projects in Japan.

The 2023 drilling campaign at the D-Prospect comprised 2,032 metres of shallow air core drilling to test for bedrock copper anomalies below the Kalahari sand cover, and 787 metres of follow-up core drilling in three holes (D22-C1, D14-C1, D11-C1. Results from D-14-C1 and D11-C1 are pending from the D-Prospect and will be announced when available. The D22-C1 interval of 18.10 metres grading 0.70% copper delivers significant mineralization: The grade of 0.70% copper exceeds that of certain deposits in the Domes Region.

(Examples: First Quantum Minerals' Sentinel Mine Reserves: 792.4 million tonnes grading 0.46% Cu and Barrick Gold's Lumwana Mine Reserves: 538.8 million tonnes grading 0.56% Cu). The width of 18.10 metres is comparable to the thicknesses of the mineralized units in several deposits with a similar interpreted style of copper mineralization in the Domes Region. At the Lumwana Mine, the average mineralized thickness of the ore schist unit at the Malundwe deposit is 15 metres, and the average thicknesses of the upper, central, and lower ore schist units at the Chimiwungo deposit are 10, 60 and 12 metres, respectively.

Notably, the D22-C1 drill intersection is open along the interpreted strike of the geological units to the southwest and west as well as both up and down dip beneath the Kalahari sand cover. Some 400 metres along strike to the northeast of the D22-C1 intersection, previously reported drill hole D2-C1 returned a zone of 14.05 metres at 0.37% copper. Further interpretation, and potential future drilling, will determine if these two intersections can be linked.

Importantly, drill core observation of the main D22-C1 intercept reveals an interpreted zonation of the copper sulphide minerals from a narrow but meaningful interval of high-tenor chalcocite through chalcopyrite plus bornite and chalcopyrite only to chalcopyrite plus pyrite. This mineral zonation can be taken as evidence for a robust mineralizing system and, in combination with existing and future drill intersections, could provide vectors towards feeders for the D-Prospect mineralization.