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Krakatoa Resources (ASX: KTA) has reported further high-grade antimony and gold results from its Zopkhito project in Georgia, eastern Europe, as the company advances towards a maiden JORC-compliant mineral resource estimate.
The latest assays from the 2026 drilling program returned peak individual sample grades of 16.25g/t gold and 8.27 per cent antimony, reinforcing the project’s potential as a dual-commodity resource.
Underground coring intersected high-grade mineralisation in Vein 19, while surface diamond drilling identified additional gold mineralisation in Veins 6 and 33.
The results are consistent with historical drilling and earlier 2025–26 exploration, which identified high-grade mineralisation within the vein system and an extensive surrounding gold halo.
Importantly, Krakatoa is also identifying mineralisation outside the areas included in the historical resource estimate.
Chief executive officer Mark Major said the latest results were strengthening confidence in the deposit’s potential.
“We are now focused on bringing all of this work together through a maiden JORC resource, alongside the metallurgical and ore-sorting testwork, to better understand the scale and development potential of Zopkhito,” Major said.
The current exploration program is designed to convert Zopkhito’s existing foreign resource estimate into a mineral resource estimate compliant with the JORC 2012 reporting standard.
Surface diamond drilling and underground coring remain underway, with additional assays pending.
Alongside resource definition, Krakatoa is progressing technical studies to assess potential processing options.
Representative samples have been sent to Germany for sensor-based ore-sorting testwork, while bulk samples for metallurgical testing are being prepared for shipment to an Australian laboratory.
Environmental baseline studies and permitting activities are also progressing.
The combination of ongoing drilling, resource estimation and processing testwork provides several potential development milestones as Krakatoa works to establish Zopkhito’s scale and economic prospects.
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