Hot Chili has fired up the diamond drill rigs at its emerging La Verde copper-gold porphyry discovery in Chile’s Atacama region, as copper prices swell and exploration heats up in the heartland of copper production.

Sitting just 30 kilometres south of the company’s planned Costa Fuego copper-gold processing plant, La Verde is shaping up as a hefty addition to Hot Chili’s Chilean portfolio.

A diamond drill rig working at Hot Chili’s La Verde copper-gold discovery in Chile’s Atacama region.

It already has a diamond rig churning away on double shifts at the recent discovery, chasing deeper high-grade zones after a cracking copper-gold result from its first-pass reverse circulation program last December.

The earlier effort mapped out a 1000-metre by 750m footprint with copper grades well a

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