Extensive copper and gold mineralisation has been found over 70 kilometres of iron oxide copper-gold targets at the project with the Nil Desperandum prospect seen as the stand-out copper and gold target in a site south of Hammer's Trafalgar prospect.

The historical Duchess mine was discovered in 1900 and was worked for 40 years producing 205,000 tonnes at 12% copper.

Over the next year, Carnaby is planning on completing a ground induced polarisation surveys at Greater Duchess, which will then be followed up with reverse circulation drilling

Drilling at the project is planned to commence in the second quarter.

Over 2021, Carnaby is planning ground induced polarisation surveys at Greater Duchess, which will be followed up with reverse circulation drilling at several high priority targets, including the Nil Desperandum and Mount Birnie prospects.

"The Greater Duchess Copper Gold Project is a camp scale cluster of potentially open pittable shallow IOCG deposits within trucking distance to nearby competing processing plants," Carnaby Managing Director Rob Watkins said.

"There is clearly underlying and emerging value in our copper assets which we will bring to the forefront in 2021."

Carnaby also own Tick Hill Gold Mine in the region.

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