Great Southern Copper PLC announced that the scout drilling programme at the Abundante prospect has been completed and drilling has commenced at the Teresita prospect. Both prospects are within ?the Company's Especularita Cu-Au project located in the coastal metallogenic belt of northern Chile. Highlights: Six scout reverse circulation (RC) holes completed for a total of 484m at Abundante, targeting breccia-hosted high-grade copper mineralisation Copper mineralisation visually identified in four holes targeting the breccia; All RC samples for the Abundante programme have been despatched for assaying; Scout drilling has commenced at Teresita targeting high-grade Au-Cu vein breccias.

Six RC drill holes have been completed at the historical Abundante copper mine where rock chip samples collected by the Company from mine walls and waste dumps returned values up to 3.39% Cu and 0.15g/t Au in tourmaline breccia1,2. A total of 445 drill chip samples were collected and have been sent to ALS Laboratories for assay. The scout drilling programme has now progressed to the Teresita prospect where RC holes are targeting high-grade Au-Cu mineralisation associated with quartz-carbonate vein-breccias. The Teresita quartz-carbonate vein-breccia system has a cumulative strike length over 5km and rock chip samples have returned grades up to 13.7g/t Au3 and 7.22% Cu.