{"id":"sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","canonicalSlug":"sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","language":"en","title":"Sterling reports broad copper interval in Soo project eastern step-out","summary":"Drilling expands the tested footprint while substantial intervening ground remains untested.","body":["Sterling Metals released new Soo Copper drilling results on 28 October from an eastern pad near Batchewana Bay, Ontario. The pad lies approximately 850 metres east of the previously reported eastern limit of the MEPS zone. The company describes an approximately two-kilometre east-west drilled mineralised footprint, with substantial gaps still requiring testing.","Hole SC-26-20 returned 206.2 metres grading 0.28% copper equivalent, including 0.22% copper, from 49.8 metres downhole. Within that interval, 20.0 metres graded 0.98% copper equivalent, including 0.76% copper. These nested intervals overlap and should not be added together as separate lengths of mineralisation.","The reported intervals may not represent true widths, which remain unknown. Copper-equivalent grades combine copper with contributions from other metals under stated assumptions. They differ from copper grade alone and do not establish recoverable metal or economic returns from a mine.","Sterling intends to compare geological, alteration and core-scanning information from the eastern holes with MEPS to improve follow-up targeting. The new data support further investigation of the wider system. A larger drilled footprint does not demonstrate continuous mineralisation throughout the untested ground or constitute a new mineral reserve."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Sterling reports broad copper interval in Soo project eastern step-out\n\nDrilling expands the tested footprint while substantial intervening ground remains untested.\n\nSterling Metals released new Soo Copper drilling results on 28 October from an eastern pad near Batchewana Bay, Ontario. The pad lies approximately 850 metres east of the previously reported eastern limit of the MEPS zone. The company describes an approximately two-kilometre east-west drilled mineralised footprint, with substantial gaps still requiring testing.\n\nHole SC-26-20 returned 206.2 metres grading 0.28% copper equivalent, including 0.22% copper, from 49.8 metres downhole. Within that interval, 20.0 metres graded 0.98% copper equivalent, including 0.76% copper. These nested intervals overlap and should not be added together as separate lengths of mineralisation.\n\nThe reported intervals may not represent true widths, which remain unknown. Copper-equivalent grades combine copper with contributions from other metals under stated assumptions. They differ from copper grade alone and do not establish recoverable metal or economic returns from a mine.\n\nSterling intends to compare geological, alteration and core-scanning information from the eastern holes with MEPS to improve follow-up targeting. The new data support further investigation of the wider system. A larger drilled footprint does not demonstrate continuous mineralisation throughout the untested ground or constitute a new mineral reserve.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":["mining","metals"],"eventDate":"2026-10-28","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-29T08:39:51Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-29T08:39:51Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-29T08:38:41Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-28","translatedAt":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.sterlingmetals.ca/news/sterling-expands-mineralized-footprint-to-2km-with-near-surface-intercept-in-850m-eastern-step-out","name":"Sterling Metals","checkedAt":"2026-10-28","publishedAt":"2026-10-28"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/sterling-soo-copper-eastern-stepout-results-oct28-2026"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["project-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"CA","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}