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URU Metals confirms high-grade resource continuity at Zeb nickel project

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11th July 2025

By: Marleny Arnoldi

Deputy Editor Online

     

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Aim-listed URU Metals has confirmed the presence of thicker, higher-grade nickel/copper/platinum group metals horizons beneath the historic openpit resource of the Zeb nickel project, in South Africa’s Limpopo province.

The company’s latest assay results and geological interpretations from a two-hole drilling programme also demonstrate that mineralisation at Zeb remains open along strike and at depth.

Some of the new mineralisation confirmed includes 2.27 m of nickel grading 0.27%, copper grading 0.17%, platinum, palladium and gold elements grading 2.27 g/t and 4 m of nickel grading 0.23%, copper grading 0.14% and platinum, palladium and gold elements grading 1.36 g/t.

URU says the Zone 2 mineralisation beneath the openpit Zone 1 area has mineralisation similar to that of Ivanhoe Mines’ Platreef mine and Valterra Platinum’s Mogalakwena Mining Complex, which are also based in South Africa.

Zone 2 had been an untested area beneath Zone 1 and has now confirmed the geological model. Two holes were drilled at a vertical angle to test the true depth of the mineralisation sequences and to test for down-dip continuity.

One of the holes intersected what it interpreted as Zone 3 mineralisation, which further validates the presence of semi massive to massive sulphides associated with the chonolith and supports the potential for a large, continuous magmatic system that hosts massive nickel sulphide.

Some of the Zone 3 intercepts include 1 m of nickel grading 0.60%, copper grading 0.14% and platinum, palladium and gold elements grading 0.57 g/t.

CEO John Zorbas says the latest results validate Zeb’s geological model and confirm the project has the scale and grade to become a significant critical metal asset.

“With mineralisation open in multiple directions, and several targets identified from a recent airborne magnetic and gravity survey, we are excited as ever about the growth runway ahead and look forward to updating the market on future exploration plans,” Zorbas concludes.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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