In Mexico’s Sonora state, Santa Catalina Mining (SLM-V) has completed a program of reverse-circulation drilling at the 5,930-acre Pilar gold property.
The 3,000-metre program was directed at an area where trenching defined a series of parallel, high-grade shears separated by lower-grade stockworks over a 550-by-200-metre area. Anomalous gold-silver mineralization covers an area measuring 1,000 by 550 metres. At the centre of the target is the historic Guadalupana mine, which produced gold around the turn of the century.
Santa Catalina has reported preliminary results from an initial six holes.
Hole P-8 is one of several that are testing the main structure over a strike length of 350 metres. It intersected 15 metres grading 1.06 grams gold and 6.6 grams silver per tonne, including a 7.5-metre interval grading 2.42 grams gold and 14.5 grams silver.
Hole S-10 intercepted a second structure, 120 metres north of the old mine workings, returning 16.5 metres of well-oxidized and silicified rock grading 53.05 grams gold. Silver values are pending.
Results are also pending for hole S-9B, which intersected 100 metres of well-oxidized and silicified material in the main structure. That hole was drilled southwest of hole S-10.
Additional results include: 7.5 metres of 1.08 grams gold and 35.2 grams silver for hole N-9; 4.5 metres of 1.42 grams gold and 25 grams silver in hole N-12; 24 metres of 0.92 gram gold in hole P-10B; and 4.5 metres of 0.86 gram gold in hole O-9B.
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