Argent Minerals Limited announced that high grade rock chip assay results have confirmed areas of extensive prospectivity at its 100% owned Copperhead Project within the Gascoyne Province of Western Australia. The Copperhead Project is located approximately 350km east-northeast of Carnarvon and 950km north of Perth in Western Australia. The Exploration Licences are 100% owned and operated by Copperhead Pty Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of Argent Minerals Limited.

Access can be gained along the sealed North West Coastal Highway and then via along Maroonah Road, thence along the gravelled gravel station tracks through the tenements. Argent commenced the first pass exploration program over Anomaly A, Prospect 3A, Anomaly C (a), Anomaly C (b) and Illirie Creek Copper Prospects areas in November 2022. As part of the reconnaissance program, Argent also assessed the logistics of the upcoming extensive ground exploration-based programs. Illirie Creek Copper Occurrence is located 26kms south-southeast of the Mount Palgrave Copper Prospect.

The main area of interest is centred on three large costeans which were excavated by BHP in 1971-73. The copper mineralisation located within the Illirie Creek Prospect occurs within the Discovery Formation Siltstone Formation. Outcrop of this Formation may be traced continuously from the Mt Palgrave Copper Prospect to the lllirie Creek Prospect over 30kms of complex northwest southeast structural deformation.

The costeans have been excavated from northeast to southwest over 50m and at 100m spacing comprising of very heavily bleached siltstone but with visible malachite. The 1973 BHP report recorded a 13.4m section of the northernmost costean as containing 0.77% Cu, and a >10m section of the central costean recorded >1.00% Cu (ASX Release 30 October 2022 "Argent Minerals Ltd. Acquires 100% of Copperhead Project WA & Investor Presentation October 2022). Spot highs of 6.27% Cu were also recorded during exploration at the time.