Infinitum to Use AI at Hot Breccia Copper Project in Arizona

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 4, 2024 / Infinitum Copper Corp. (TSXV:INFI)(OTCQB:INUMF) ("Infinitum" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that project operator Prismo Metals Inc. (CSE:PRIZ,)(OTCQB:PMOMF) ("Prismo") has engagement ExploreTech Inc. from California to apply xFlare, their Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Optimized drill planning solution, at its Hot Breccia Project where a number of features suggests the potential for a well mineralized Arizona-style Copper Porphyry at depth.

The xFlare AI approach is specifically designed to combine surface geology and drilling results with computationally intensive remodeling of existing geophysical datasets to optimize targeting of covered targets. The process quickly generates thousands of solutions that cluster on the best fits between the geological and geophysical data and then generates drillhole trajectories designed to cut those clusters most effectively.

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Figure 1. Location of the Hot Breccia copper project

"Hot Breccia has all the right elements for significant porphyry copper and skarn mineralization, and we are thrilled to be partnering with the Company to optimize their drilling," said Alex Miultenberger, ExploreTech's founder and CEO Alex Miltenberger. "The Hot Breccia ZTEM anomaly is very strong, and xFlare was designed precisely to refine these kinds of data to match what is known of the geology and the target model."

The ZTEM survey identified a large conductive body at depth below the surface exposure of a large dike swarm that hosts the namesake breccias. Anomalous copper and gold assays are locally present at the surface in this area (see Prismo Metals press release of July 11, 2023), and high-grade copper and zinc assays are present above this anomaly in historic drill holes completed by major copper producers in the 1970's and early 1980's (see Prismo Metals press release of January 29, 2023).

While all of the historic drill holes intersected hydrothermal alteration within the volcanic rocks that overlie the typically better mineralized Paleozoic carbonate rocks with increasing alteration intensity downwards, no historic drilling targeted this newly identified conductive zone identified in the ZTEM survey. The carbonate host units above the anomaly have several copper intercepts reported to exceed 1% copper and elevated zinc levels.