Garadag abuts the northern boundary of Xarxar and hosts the Garadag deposit. Garadag has been extensively explored since the end of the Soviet era by its previous owners.
In 2022, the Group acquired the historical geological exploration and other data of the previous owners of the deposit. The data included 9,645 chemical assays taken from 23,454 metres of drill core which have been transferred to the Group. The data also included geochemical and geophysical data, including maps and interpretative reports.
344 km2
No geological fieldwork was carried out in 2024. However, extensive collating and analysis was carried out of the historical data which was acquired. A maiden JORC mineral resource for the Garadag deposit was published in 2024 confirming a total resource (Indicated and Inferred categories) of approximately 900,000 tonnes of copper metal hosted in 285 million tonnes of mineralisation with average grades of 0.32 per cent. Copper.