Taruga Minerals Limited announced that it has commenced an auger drilling program at its 100% owned Mt Craig Project. The auger program is aimed at obtaining geochemical profiles across newly defined clay-hosted rare earth element (REE) targets, and newly defined copper targets which lie under shallow cover (2m - 20m depth). These targets have been identified by review of new high-resolution geophysics, mapping and recent drill data.

Auger drilling is being accompanied by high-resolution ground magnetics, geophysical modelling and mapping in preparation for the upcoming RC drill program. Standard surface soils geochemistry profiles and high-resolution ground magnetics are also being employed over outcropping targets. All exploration works currently underway at the Mt Craig Project are co-funded by the South Australian State Government under the Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI), from which Taruga recently won $650,000 in funding for REE and copper exploration.