Taruga Minerals Ltd. announced that the first phase of reconnaissance drilling has been completed at the Morgan's Creek copper prospect, within the Mt Craig Copper Project (MCCP), South Australia. The reverse circulation (RC) drilling program consisted of 22 drillholes for a total of ~2,100 metres, with an average depth of 95 metres (ranging between 30m to 300m depth). The drill program was aimed at better understanding relationships between mineralisation, structure, geophysical anomalies and various lithologies within the Morgan's Creek breccia, to guide further targeted drilling. Drilling intersected anomalous copper and zinc in a range of lithologies within the diapiric breccia. These lithologies included oxidized sediments and reduced black shales, differentiated dolerites and hematite-altered breccias. A thick barite unit (>15m thick) was also intercepted adjacent to anomalous copper mineralization and dolerites, along with a marble unit underlying differentiated dolerite. The reduced black shales intercepted during drilling (currently undefined unit) are analogous to the Tindelpina Shale Member which host the high-grade copper mineralisation recently discovered by Taruga ~30 km north along strike at the Wyacca Prospect. Taruga consider these black shales, which reported anomalous Cu and Zn values (pXRF) to be prospective for Zambian-Style base metal mineralisation. Taruga will investigate this model further by carrying out detailed mapping, an infill gravity survey and downhole/ground-based Induced Polarisation (IP) geophysical survey for further drill targeting. The differentiated dolerites contain variable degrees of zoned magnetite, with higher magnetite content coinciding with elevated copper and zinc anomalism (pXRF). One such unit was underlain by a marble unit. Taruga consider the dolerites have potential to host copper and gold mineralisation, and will investigate this model by carrying out detailed mapping and sampling for further drill targeting. Drilling has revealed zones of potassic alteration with sericite, hematite, dolomite and potassium-feldspar within the diapiric breccias surrounding dolerite bodies. These zones also contained anomalous copper near the surface (pXRF) and will undergo further targeting. A thick barite (likely quartz-barite) unit, >15m thick, was intercepted near the surface, over more than 200 meters of strike, in close proximity to outcropping mineralised breccias and dolerites, and can be seen outcropping in nearby creek banks. Taruga consider the barite unit to be of potential hydrothermal origin associated with a rift margin environment, and may be indicative of base and precious metal potential (both vein-hosted and stratiform). The interpretation of hydrothermal barite is consistent with government mapping of nearby hydrothermal quartz-baryte veins in a similar setting.