Key Highlights

  • TX26-014 returned 27.7m at 1.51% Cu and 5.69 g/t Ag from 49.3m, and 11.25m at 1.43% Cu from 94.75m.
  • The high-grade zone now extends about 245 metres along strike and remains open in all directions.
  • Phase-2 drilling is about 70% complete, with assays pending for holes TX26-016 to TX26-023.
  • Copper mineralisation in the footwall of TX26-015 widens the area that can be targeted.

Aruma Resources Limited (ASX:AAJ) has reported further assay results from its Phase-2 diamond drilling at the Tillex copper-silver project in the Timmins Mining District of Ontario, Canada. The update dated 11 November 2026 covers holes TX26-014 and TX26-015, which the company says extend the shallow, high-grade system to about 245 metres of strike.

The latest intercepts

TX26-014 returned 27.7m at 1.51% copper and 5.69 g/t silver from 49.3m, and a second interval of 11.25m at 1.43% copper and 13.69 g/t silver from 94.75m. TX26-015 returned 6.54m at 1.21% copper and 5.17 g/t silver from 58.66m.

The company said the mineralisation begins immediately beneath about 40 metres of overburden, which makes the high-grade zone shallow. It is interpreted to dip at a relatively shallow angle, which the company says gives favourable geometry for drill testing.

Geology and the expanding footprint

Copper mineralisation within the altered footwall of TX26-015 indicates that the system is not confined to the overlying argillite host. The company said this expands the areas it can target with further drilling.

The Tillex trend is largely unexplored beyond the current drill area. The release gives the trend length as about 3.2 kilometres, with a slightly longer figure used elsewhere in the update. Drilling will also test a north-east extension of the zone within a newly acquired patented claim, PAT4887.

Pending results and the limits of the data

Holes TX26-016 to TX26-023 have been completed, and their assays are pending. The company aims to extend the continuous high-grade strike a further 115 metres to the south-west beyond TX26-014.

The intercepts are downhole intervals, and the company has not defined the limits of mineralisation. The update does not include a resource estimate or true widths, so the scale of the system remains provisional until the pending holes are reported.

Final Word

Aruma has widened the Tillex story from one shallow zone to a system the company says remains open in several directions. Pending assays for TX26-016 to TX26-023 and the north-east extension will show whether the drilling progress can be converted into a defined resource.