Chakana Copper Corp. announced that it has initiated a fully-funded 3,000m drill program at its Soledad project in the Ancash province of Peru within the Miocene mineral belt. There are numerous additional mineralized tourmaline breccias on the south side, but for the first time will be testing two bulk-tonnage targets - the giant Mega-Gold porphyry target, and further south the La Joya high-sulfidation epithermal zone with preserved advanced argillic alteration and strong silver-gold mineralization at surface.

Detailed information about the targets being tested in this drill program can be found in February 29, 2024. Drilling will be done with a Duralite T800N drill rig with HQ diameter (6.35 cm/2.5 in.) depth capacity to 500m and NQ diameter (4.76 cm/1.875 in.) core beyond that as warranted. The Duralite drill rig has a smaller-sized platform requirement minimizing surface disturbance and the cost to construct and rehabilitate.

Core will be logged, photographed, cut, and sampled at site in a secure logging facility before batches of samples are transported to ALS in Lima, Peru for assaying.