Australia-based SolGold has unveiled new copper and gold assays at its Cascabel copper-gold porphyry exploration project in northern Ecuador.
Assay results from Hole 5 at the Alpala prospect returned intersections of 324.32m at 1.07% copper and 1.16g per tonne of gold from a depth of 869.68m.
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The length of hole interval assayed so far from 24m to 1,194m depth yielded 1,170m grading at 0.58% copper and 0.49g per tonne of gold.
The company said that assays for the 136m interval 1,194m to 1,330m are anticipated in the next seven days and the gold-rich nature of the Alpala copper porphyry system has been confirmed.
Drilling will now be conducted on Hole 6, which is a targeting extension to the copper-gold mineralisation in Hole 5, 300m to the north-west.
Gridding continues for the planned 12km² of 3D induced polarisation survey in April, to assist predictions of the distribution of copper-sulphide zones.
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By GlobalDataSolGold CEO and managing director Alan Martin said the high-grade copper and gold results from 870m to 1,194m are spectacular.
"These results demonstrate the high-grade tenor of the Alpala system and with the copper and gold mineralisation, identified by assay or visual observation, continuing from close-to-surface to almost 1.4km down-hole, the likelihood of a world-class copper-gold porphyry at Alpala is increasingly strong," Martin said.
SolGold’s exploration projects are sitauted in northern Ecuador, Australia and the Solomon Islands.
In Australia, the company holds 100% of the Rannes, Mt Perry, Cracow West and Normanby projects, which are located in south-east Queensland.
The company’s projects in the Solomon Islands include the Fauro, on Fauro Island and the Lower Koloula, Malukuna and Kuma licenses, which are situated on Guadalcanal.
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