Homenaje
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Property Type
Low Sulfidation Epithermal Gold-Silver
Size
11,056 ha
Status
Available for partnership
Exploration Stage
Roch chip sampling, geophysical survey, geological mapping
Location
- Located at the western margin of the Deseado Massif of Santa Cruz province, southern Argentina
- 3km south and southwest from the COSE and Cap Oeste mines operated by Pan American Silver and Patagonia Gold Respectively
The Homenaje project covers 11,056 ha and is located at the western margin of the Deseado Massif Au-Ag metallogenic province. With the completed surface surveys, 4 northwest trending prospective structural trends are identified, with similar geologic characteristics to those of the adjacent COSE and Cap Oeste mines.
Exploration to date has been limited as more than 90% of the project area is covered by thin post-mineral rocks, including Tertiary plateau basalt and gravels. However, small erosional windows show Middle to Upper Jurassic tuffs assigned to La Matilde Formation, which hosts localized hydrothermal breccias, veinlets and stockworks of chalcedonic quartz.
Analysis and interpretation of outcropping alteration, mineralization, structural setting, magnetics and chargeability/resistivity gradient array responses have defined four northwest trending prospective structural trends, with similar geologic characteristics to those of the adjacent COSE and Cap Oeste mineralized areas.
Initial rock chip sampling of mineralized structures, discontinuously outcropping on a northwest trending corridor, identified in an area of 1,500m x 800m that returned anomalous Au, Ag, As, Sb, Mo, Cu and Pb. Anomalous samples are characterized by altered tuff with thin chalcedony veinlets.
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