Norway VMS

Cu-Au rich VMS targets in historic districts representing perfect candidates for modern geophysical methods to uncover blind sulphide bodies

In January 2025, Aurum Discovery secured tenure over two Cu-Au VMS project areas in central Norway, building on extensive targeting work undertaken in 2024. The Rorøs Project area forms part of the Caledonian Ordovician metallogenic belt, associated with the closure of the Iapetus Ocean during the Late Cambrian – Early Silurian. This belt is related to VMS belts in northeastern North America of similar age (e.g. Buchans and Bathurst VMS camps, Canada.

The permit area includes the historic Klinkenberg Cu-mine, where grades exceeded 3% Cu, and is considered to have excellent potential for additional discovery of blind Cu-sulphide bodies via modern geophysical methods. Highlights from exploration drilling in the early 2000’s include 8.71m @ 2.72% Cu, 0.26% Zn.

Aurum also holds 80km² of exploration permits centred on the 15km-long Skyttemyr sulphide zone. This project lies within Mesoproterozoic volcanics and metasediments of the Bamble Terrane and was previously explored by Anaconda Mining in the 1980s.  

Sampling of the old mine sites by the NGU returned values of 3.5% Cu and up to 7g/t Au, and limited drilling in the mid-1970s demonstrated that the Cu-Au ore horizon persists and thickens beneath the depth of historic exploitation. Potential for both strike- and depth-extensions of this sulphide zone are considered high, and the precious-metal potential implied by the high Au-content of recent sampling remains largely untested in historic data.