Ms. Mary Little reports
MIRASOL COMMENCES REVERSE CIRCULATION DRILL PROGRAM AT THE 100%-OWNED TITAN GOLD PROJECT, CHILE
Mirasol Resources Ltd. has started an initial drill
program at its 100-per-cent-owned Titan gold project in the Miocene belt of
northern Chile. Mirasol has planned a 15-hole, 2,500-metre reverse
circulation drill program to test a range of outcropping oxide
gold targets and covered geophysical targets identified by Mirasol's
exploration at this new gold project.
Mirasol previously reported a large, low-grade, surface oxide gold
anomaly (news release dated Jan. 21, 2013) defined by trenching at Titan,
in addition to a series of covered geophysical anomalies (news release
March 1, 2013) which are outlined by detailed ground magnetics and a
26.6-line-kilometre pole-dipole (PDP) induced polarization (IP)
electrical geophysical survey.
At surface, the Titan gold mineralization is associated with a large
zone of intense high-level advanced argillic alteration, indicative of
a high sulphidation epithermal (HSE) precious metal system. HSE
deposits have produced a number of world-class bulk-minable gold and
silver mines in the Miocene-age volcanic belt of northern Chile and
Argentina (La Coipa, Veladero, Refugio), and represent an attractive
exploration target. Favourable access and workable altitudes of
approximately 4,300 metres have facilitated Mirasol's ability to rapidly
advance the Titan project to drill stage.
Mirasol's trenching program at Titan outlined a 700-by-660-metre
open-ended zone of anomalous gold (at plus 50 parts per billion), with
length-weighted average channel intersections of up to 194 metres at
0.41 gram per tonne (g/t) gold, and including better intervals of 31 metres at 1.36 g/t
gold and 10 metres at 2.13 g/t gold, and includes individual assays of
up to one metre of 17 g/t gold. These results report to oxidized
surface material with little to no preservation of sulphide at surface.
Mirasol's drill campaign has two objectives. The primary target is near-surface (less than 150 metres in depth), oxide gold
mineralization. The planned drilling is designed to test for improved
precious metals grades underlying gold anomalies in trenches, and also
to test if the large, non-chargeable resistive geophysical anomaly
blanket may represent oxidized material with silica accumulations. By
analogy with other HSE deposits in the region, silicification may host
higher precious metal grades.
The secondary target is defined by the large, semi-coincident chargeable
and magnetic geophysical anomalies that are evident at depth beneath
the Titan project. Magnetic and chargeable anomalies of this magnitude and shape may be
related to a magnetite-sulphide-bearing intrusion, and possibly related
to porphyry copper-gold (Cu-Au) mineralization at depth. These anomalies largely
underlie the resistive blanket. Drill holes targeting these features
are designed to test down to depths of 250 metres below surface. These
holes are not anticipated to fully test this target, but are designed
to gather preliminary vectoring information to aid possible deeper
drilling at a later date.
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