Czech VMS

Cu-rich targets in an underdeveloped metallogenic belt

The polymetallic VMS deposits of the Olomouc Region of the northeast Czech Republic constitute a significant metallogenic province, located at the eastern extent of the well-known Rheno-hercynian belt and thus temporally related to the world-class deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt and those at Meggen and Rammelsberg. 

In 2024 Aurum Discovery was awarded exploration permits covering 52km² immediately to the east of the known VMS Zn-deposit at Zlaté Hory (currently reserved for the State Mining Company, DIAMO). The area was the subject of active mining and exploration until the early 1990s when the dissolution of the former Czechoslovakia led to the abrupt closure of the mine, leaving significant resources intact and multiple regional exploration targets untested in the wider area.

Mineralisation at Zlaté Hory is dominantly stratabound, hosted by a Devonian volcano-sedimentary sequence, overlain towards the east by lower Carboniferous sediments. Although mined dominantly for Zn, numerous bodies of Cu-rich mineralisation were identified by pre-1990 drilling, and it is these portions of the system that Aurum Discovery is targeting in the adjacent areas.

Exploration throughout the 1980s produced targets along multiple kilometres of prospective strike within this region and a number of untested anomalies coincident with a favourable geological setting. A large volume of historic mining and exploration data is held in the archive in the Czech Republic.

Aurum Discovery has a Czech team actively compiling this data with a view to executing fieldwork in 2026.