Arctic Minerals AB (publ) has identified a new copper target in a previously unexplored and sparsely populated part of central Finland. Boulders assay up to 4.4% copper. During the field season 2022, Arctic Minerals carried out preliminary geological fieldwork at its recently granted Tavast reservation in western Finland.

The Company has now received analysis results from the exploration carried out. The area has previously only seen sparse boulder-hunting, carried out by a prospector some 25 years ago. This prospector found boulders assaying up to 4.2% copper and also some gold-silver bearing boulders with up to 5.1 grams/ton gold and 35 grams/ton silver.

Some of the prospector's boulders were found in an area that is now inside a wind farm but there is still a considerable area open for exploration on the western side of the wind farm. The most prospective area is now covered by the company's Tavast reservation. The reservation covers an area of 444 km2 approximately 120 km southeast of Oulu.

Arctic Minerals' geologists found a number of copper-, gold- and silver- bearing boulders in the area outside the wind farm but within the Tavast reservation. These boulders assayed up to 4.4% copper. One copper rich boulder also assayed 0.56 gram/ton gold and another assayed 17 grams/ton silver.

The company believes that the boulders' source may be local. The sulphides comprise chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite which occur as dissemination or in semi-massive concentrations. The boulders occur in an area dominated by felsic intrusive rocks that are cut by a major fault.

This setting shares similarities with that of Boliden's Aitik copper-gold-silver mine in northern Sweden, Sweden's largest mine. Arctic Minerals now plans to apply for an exploration permit at Tavast. This will enable trenching, geophysics, shallow (base-of-till and top-of-bedrock) drilling and also diamond drilling.

The aim is to find the mineral source of the boulders.