{"id":"ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","canonicalSlug":"ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","language":"en","title":"Strategic Energy Resources begins Diamantina copper-gold drilling","summary":"A two-hole programme at Elizabeth Springs East will test extensions to mineralisation identified in historical drilling.","body":["Strategic Energy Resources announced on 28 October that diamond drilling had begun at Elizabeth Springs East within its wholly owned Diamantina copper-gold project in western Queensland. The two-hole step-out programme is intended to test extensions to historical intersections, rather than report new assays from the current campaign.","The first hole targets an extension of a conductive copper-nickel sulphide breccia encountered in historical hole DCT010. That earlier hole returned 6.5 metres at 0.52% copper and 0.16% nickel from 423 metres. A A$275,000 Queensland Collaborative Exploration Initiative grant provides partial funding for the new work.","Other historical evidence includes 161 metres at 0.4% copper and 0.11 grams of gold per tonne from 449 metres in DTD002, including 17.3 metres at 1.76% copper and 0.37 g/t gold. The company said previous drilling was restricted to an 800-by-800-metre area within a larger coincident magnetic and gravity anomaly measuring four by two kilometres.","Diamantina lies approximately 280 kilometres south of Cloncurry. Its drilling follows programmes at Canobie and Bulimba and completes the company’s planned sequence of Queensland field campaigns for 2026. Assays from the three projects are expected over the coming months. The anomaly’s extent and the new drilling targets remain exploration evidence, with economic scale and continuity still to be demonstrated."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Strategic Energy Resources begins Diamantina copper-gold drilling\n\nA two-hole programme at Elizabeth Springs East will test extensions to mineralisation identified in historical drilling.\n\nStrategic Energy Resources announced on 28 October that diamond drilling had begun at Elizabeth Springs East within its wholly owned Diamantina copper-gold project in western Queensland. The two-hole step-out programme is intended to test extensions to historical intersections, rather than report new assays from the current campaign.\n\nThe first hole targets an extension of a conductive copper-nickel sulphide breccia encountered in historical hole DCT010. That earlier hole returned 6.5 metres at 0.52% copper and 0.16% nickel from 423 metres. A A$275,000 Queensland Collaborative Exploration Initiative grant provides partial funding for the new work.\n\nOther historical evidence includes 161 metres at 0.4% copper and 0.11 grams of gold per tonne from 449 metres in DTD002, including 17.3 metres at 1.76% copper and 0.37 g/t gold. The company said previous drilling was restricted to an 800-by-800-metre area within a larger coincident magnetic and gravity anomaly measuring four by two kilometres.\n\nDiamantina lies approximately 280 kilometres south of Cloncurry. Its drilling follows programmes at Canobie and Bulimba and completes the company’s planned sequence of Queensland field campaigns for 2026. Assays from the three projects are expected over the coming months. The anomaly’s extent and the new drilling targets remain exploration evidence, with economic scale and continuity still to be demonstrated.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":["mining","metals"],"eventDate":"2026-10-28","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-28T15:57:58Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-28T15:57:58Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-28T15:55:36Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-28","translatedAt":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03154178-3A705151","name":"Strategic Energy Resources","checkedAt":"2026-10-28","publishedAt":"2026-10-28"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/ser-diamantina-elizabeth-springs-drilling-october-28-2026"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["project-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"AU","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}