Trigon Metals, the Canadian exploration company that sold Kombat Mine near Otavi to Horizon Corporation last December, has relocated to Morocco – where it has launched a drilling campaign at the Addana Project.
This was confirmed in a statement issued by the company on Tuesday.
Trigon had resumed open-pit operations at Kombat Mine in October 2021, and then started underground mining in May 2024, only to halt operations last January due to alleged flooding, before selling to Horizon in what some suspect was a ploy to cash up and dump the mine and its workers.
Following the suspension of operations, Trigon retrenched 533 employees before the sale to Horizon Corporation was finalised in December.
The company thereafter changed its name to Safi Silver Corp and moved to focus on its southern Morocco operations.
Trigon, however, still holds interests in the Kalahari Copper Belt Project, which stretches along the geological Kalahari Copper Belt, a region spanning the Namibia–Botswana border.
The project comprises a 765 000 to 963 163-hectare land package, situated between Sandfire Resources to the north-east and Rio Tinto to the south-west, and largely covering unexplored territory.
In January 2025, Trigon was, however, awarded €5 million (about N$100 million) for a research project funded by the European Union.
A company statement released at the time says the Kalahari Copper Project was one of only three projects being funded under the Unified Novel Deep Exploration for Critical Ore Discovery research initiative to enhance the responsible supply of raw materials.
According to a statement issued by the company, Addana was selected as Trigon’s flagship Moroccan project due to its potential for near-surface, high-grade silver-lead polymetallic mineralisation, supported by historic artisanal mining and extensive surface sampling.
Commenting on the drill campaign, Trigon Metals chief exploration officer Andreas Rompel says: “We are excited to turn the conceptual potential of Addana into real drill results. The structural setting and vein geometry suggest there is room to expand vertically and laterally, and this initial drilling campaign is designed to deliver key vectoring information and confidence in continuity at depth.”
– Email: matthew@namibian.com.na
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