Cooper Metals Limited announced the results of the infill soil sampling at the Gooroo Project in Western Australia. The Gooroo Project is located approximately 413km north of Perth. Nearby mining projects include Silver Lake Resources Limited Deflector mine with 1.27 Moz Au @ 13.5 g/t & 3 Mt @ 0.8% Cu)1 . Cooper is targeting Orogenic Au and Cu- Au mineralisation (Deflector style) in the highly prospective Gullewa Greenstone Belt in the Murchison Province of the Yilgarn Craton. The vast majority of exploration has been within the northern limb of the Gullewa syncline which offers better exposures of greenstone belt and has been successful in the discovery of a number of gold deposits, most notably Deflector, which is a blind gold deposit under cover. Cooper completed infill soil sampling on a 100m spaced grid, over anomalous gold areas identified in the 200m regional soil sampling survey reported in early 2022. Five hundred and ninety three infill samples were collected taking the total number of soil samples to 1104. Encouragingly gold (Au) assays up to 24.7ppb Au were returned from infill sampling, with samples greater than 4ppb Au considered anomalous. Gold anomalies were ranked more highly based on their strength, the presence of other anomalous pathfinder elements such as arsenic (As), the amount of anomalous Au sample results occurring in proximity together, and the proximity of the gold anomalies to mapped greenstone outcrop and/or interpreted faults. Anomaly 1: in the NW occurs over subcropping greenstone and also has anomalous As and Au with peak value of 11.2 ppb Au Anomaly 2: in the NW occurs over subcropping greenstone and also has anomalous As and Au with peak value of 15.1 ppb Au Anomaly 3: has a maximum value of 24.7 ppb Au and occurs over mafic rocks close to a NNE trending fault Anomaly 4: is a tight cluster of gold anomalism over mafic rocks, close to a NE trending structure, with peak value of 6.7 ppb Au Anomaly 5: in the SE of the grid area is a tight cluster of anomalous gold samples in close to structurally complex zone of intersecting faults, with a peak value of 5.5 ppb Au. An area of diffuse gold anomalism in colluvium material may be masking any true gold response at depth. Auger drilling will be trialled in covered areas to test for gold anomalism in the
basement. Cooper has commenced a field trip to ground truth the four priority gold anomalies ahead of planned auger drilling later in the year. Auger drilling is planned in areas of cover where basement rocks are not exposed. Cooper has submitted a program of work to the regulators, and drilling will commence
after the necessary approvals are received.