A soil geochemical survey at Robust Resources’ Cumnock Copper Mine prospect near Orange in central NSW has returned positive base metal results and confirmed the need for follow-up drilling.

The Cumnock Copper Mine is one of four target areas prospective for gold and other base metal mineralization on Robust’s licence area to the north of Newcrest Mining’s Cadia Valley Operations gold and copper mines. The others are the Neurea and Blatheryv Creek copper zones and the Gumble granite skarns.

In December 2007 Robust conducted a soil geochemical survey over the Cumnock mine area. A total of 41 samples were collected on a 100 metre by 100 metre staggered grid. The samples were analyzed for copper, lead, zinc, arsenic, molybdenum, gold and silver.

The soil grid covered the Cumnock Copper Mine area and a small shaft 400 metres to the east-south-east. About 20% of samples were anomalous in gold, arsenic, copper, lead and zinc. One highly anomalous sample @ 2.95 grams/tonne gold and 216ppm copper was collected upslope from the small shaft. Anomalies continue off grid to the north of the Cumnock mine.

In the past the Cumnock mine yielded several tonnes of 10% copper ore with gold and silver credits. Mineralization presents as sulphide blebs and disseminations in quartz veins in Silurian andersites.

The Cumnock tenement is the largest in Robust’s Lachlan Fold Belt portfolio.

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