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The junior is currently testing the vertical extent of mineralization at the Aguas Mesas Sur and Aguas Mesas Norte prospects, and next will shift its attention to the Las Penas and Bonza prospects, where previous property owner Climax Mining drilled numerous holes in 1997.
The first hole is now turning at the Aguas Mesas Sur 3 pit, on the La Zarza concession. Previously released chip samples from the pit returned a true width of 6.8 metres grading 71.98 grams gold per tonne, as well as 2.8 metres of 63.5 grams gold, and 2.9 metres of 92.03 grams gold. These results represent a series of continuous channel samples taken across a milky-white-to-translucent-light-grey, fractured, and partly brecciated quartz vein exposed in an artisanal mine cut. The samples were taken at intervals from near the surface to a depth of 20 metres.
The Aguas Mesas Norte prospect lies about 1 km to the north. Here, the drill will test the vertical extent of a sub-vertical quartz vein and quartz breccia zone. This vein zone is exposed continuously for 95 metres and has been the focus of an artisanal mining operation. Aurelian has traced the vein laterally through trenching for about 450 metres. Trench results from the northernmost end of the 95-metre exposure returned 9.4 metres averaging 6.15 grams gold.
About 3 km farther north, at the Las Penas and Bonza prospects, Aurelian will perform infill drilling to test part of a gold-in-soil anomaly, which measures 2 by 1 km. A previous hole cut 115 metres grading 1.58 grams gold per tonne.
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