- Claudia Project directly south of Cerro Vanguardia Mine: 15 kilometers from the mill
- Minimum of 2,500 meters of drilling within the first 24 months and the option to complete 12,500 meters of drilling within 4 years
- Mirasol retains 2% NSR Royalty upon the exercise of the Option
- Southern most veins on the Cerro Vanguardia property trend onto Claudia Property
- Five distinct, highly prospective vein trends within the very large Claudia Property
- Drill ready targets with water permits and access agreements in place
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mirasol Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: MRZ) (OTC: MRZLF) (the "Company" or "Mirasol") is pleased to report the signing of an Option Agreement ("Agreement") with Cerro Vanguardia SA Gold-Silver Mine ("CVSA") owned by AngloGold Ashanti (92.5%) and FOMICRUZ S.E. (7.5%) for the exploration of Mirasol's Claudia Gold-Silver Project ("Claudia"), located directly south of the CVSA Gold-Silver Mine in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina.
"The Agreement with CVSA demonstrates the potential for continued discovery and resource development at Claudia," Mirasol's President Tim Heenan stated. "The 2% royalty has the potential to offer significant near-term value to Mirasol shareholders as resources defined at Claudia could be processed quickly and efficiently at the nearby Cerro Vanguardia mill."
Figure 1: District Regional Map
The extensive 65,192-hectare Claudia Gold-Silver Project is a highly prospective, low sulphidation epithermal (LSE) gold/silver project, located in the Deseado Massif of Argentina's Santa Cruz province, directly adjacent to the southern border of the producing CVSA Mine. Five distinct prospective vein trends have been identified at Claudia including the Curahue Vein Field and the Rio Seco Prospect. In 2012, Mirasol discovered the large northwest trending 15-kilometer long Curahue vein field, which may be considered a southern parallel structure, similar to the controlling structures further north at the Cerro Vanguardia vein field. Curahue hosts six isolated vein segments. Claudia also hosts two shallow paleo-surface expressions of "sinter fields" at both Calandria and Rio Seco. These sinters are considered attractive targets as any mineralized structure found beneath would be completely preserved and not reduced by erosion. Neither of these sinter occurrences have been drilled to date. The exploration potential of the Claudia Project, particularly along the largely untested Curahue and Rio Seco trends, show clear potential for Vanguardia-style vein-hosted epithermal gold-silver mineralization.
Figure 2: Principal Prospects and Mineralized Trends
Terms of the Claudia Option Agreement
a) Within the first two years of the Agreement CVSA may complete such mapping and sampling, trenching and geophysics as required in its absolute discretion to develop drill targets, and fulfill a minimum drilling commitment of 2,500 meters diamond drilling; and then CVSA will have the option, subject to the term of the agreement, to:
1) Complete within three years, not less than an aggregate of 6,000 meters of diamond drilling;
2) Complete within four years, not less than an aggregate of 12,500 meters of diamond drilling;
b) Upon completion of the above commitments, CVSA shall have the right to exercise the Option under the Agreement and subject to the terms of the Royalty Agreement, CVSA shall grant Mirasol a 2% Net Smelter Royalty on future production from the Claudia Project.
History at Mirasol's Claudia Property
The Claudia Project was originally staked in 2004 as part of Mirasol's Santa Cruz exploration program. Mirasol, in conjunction with various joint venture (JV) partners, has completed over 19,000 meters of combined reverse circulation (RC) and diamond core (DDH) drilling, more than 4,000-line kilometers of ground magnetometry, 249-line kilometers (43 km2) of gradient array IP geophysics covering six separate blocks, almost 100-line km's electrical IP- Pole-di-Pole geophysical lines, collected over 3,500 rock chip samples, 4,500 rock trench channel samples from 200 trenches, close to 1000 MMI geochemical soil samples and 1,500km2 in detailed geological mapping.
Between 2006 and 2010 two phases of drilling were completed with a JV partner, including 3,794 meters of drilling in 26 holes and 3,168 meters of RC drilling in 25 holes. Drilling results from these campaigns included multiple intercepts with greater than 100 g/t silver, including five intercepts from 118 g/t silver to 217 g/t silver and up to 1.3 g/t gold.
During 2012, Mirasol's inhouse exploration team expanded and defined the impressive 15 km long Curahue vein trend, which is largely concealed by shallow gravel cover (<5m) and is seen to host six large individual vein trends, namely the Europa, IO, Ganymede, Callisto, Themisto and Sinope segments. Large extensions of these trends have been traced under cover by electrical IP (Gradient Array) geophysical campaigns.
Figure 3: Curahue Trend – Principal Mineralized Vein Segments and Themisto Chargeability Target
At the Rio Seco prospect, located on the easternmost part of Claudia, Mirasol's early prospecting discovered the first outcropping veins at Claudia where select surface samples returned up to 20.1 g/t gold and 1,175 g/t silver from the "J Vein". Saw-cut channel and trench intersections returned 0.7 meters at 13.9 g/t gold and 229 g/t silver and 10.5 meters of 1.9 g/t gold and 22 g/t silver from mineralized zones along the expansive Rio Seco vein field (see news release June 14, 2012).
During Q2 2012, Mirasol drilled a total of 2,599 meters in 25-holes. The best results included individual assays of up to 0.83 meters at 6.59 g/t gold and 139.3 g/t silver (9.12 g/t gold equivalent) and broad intersections of anomalous gold and silver up to 15.3 meters of 0.29 g/t gold and 50.9 g/t silver (1.22 g/t gold equivalent) (see news release March 4, 2013).
During 2016/17, under a previous JV with CVSA, a combined 7,525 meters of RC and DDH drilling was completed at Claudia. The majority of the drilling was focused along a 2.2-kilometer section of the "IO vein", one of the six prospects identified to-date along the 15 km long Curahue trend (see news release December 16, 2016 and February 17, 2017).
A major "milestone" of the CVSA drilling at the "IO" vein was the discovery of a 600 meter long, open-ended mineralized body hosting silver/gold mineralization which starts a few meters below surface and has been drill tested to a vertical depth of 135 meters. This strongly mineralized trend requires follow-up work both downdip and along the strike of the structure. Highlight results included:
High-grade vein: 0.6 m at 11.72 g/t gold and 1,224 g/t silver.
Vein and veinlet composite: 9.3 m at 1.40 g/t gold and 134.6 g/t silver.
From October 2017 through March 2019, Mirasol with a JV partner drilled 2,529 meters in 12 holes at Claudia. Drilling completed to July 2018 focused mostly at the Curahue prospect, with 10 DDH holes totaling 2,270 m completed, to test targets on the Europa, IO, Themisto and Callisto segments, along the extension of the Curahue trend.
Drill results from the Curahue prospect, Europa and IO vein trends include 0.6 m at 0.08 g/t gold and 610.0 g/t silver, 0.55 m at 1.15 g/t gold and 22.9 g/t silver; and 0.9 m at 1.95 g/t gold and 5.7 g/t silver from the Cilene prospect (see news release September 17, 2018).
Following termination of that JV, Mirasol completed additional surface exploration work resulting in the definition of new drill targets that remain to be tested. A total of 249 new rock chip samples were collected from the Curahue trend, with results up to 7.99 g/t gold and 69 g/t silver. In addition, two new IP geophysical surveys, focused on the Curahue and Themisto prospects, were completed extending existing survey coverage at Claudia (see news release May 8, 2019).
Rubi Copper Project in Chile
Mirasol today also announces that the option agreement on the Rubi Copper Porphyry Project in Chile ("Rubi") with Mine Discovery Fund Pty Ltd. ("MDF"), a private Australian company, has been terminated. MDF exceeded its contractual minimum commitment by spending US$890,000 on exploration during the term of the option agreement (see news release dated October 15, 2020). The exploration program included field mapping, surface sampling, geophysics and 1,887 meters of drilling at the Lithocap and Zafiro targets. Having recovered an undivided 100% interest in Rubi, Mirasol is evaluating options to refine remaining drill targets at Rubi and is currently in discussions with potential alternative partners to drill test these targets.
About Mirasol Resources Ltd
Mirasol is a well-funded exploration company with 18 years of operating, permitting and community relations experience in the mineral rich regions of Chile and Argentina. Mirasol controls 100% of the high-grade Virginia Silver Deposit in Argentina and is currently self-funding exploration at two flagship projects, Sobek and Inca Gold, both located in Chile. Mirasol also continues to advance a strong pipeline of highly prospective early and mid-stage projects.
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Forward Looking Statements: The information in this news release contains forward looking statements that are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in our forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause such differences include: changes in world commodity markets, equity markets, costs and supply of materials relevant to the mining industry, change in government and changes to regulations affecting the mining industry and to policies linked to pandemics, social and environmental related matters. Forward-looking statements in this release include statements regarding future exploration programs, operation plans, geological interpretations, mineral tenure issues and mineral recovery processes. Although we believe the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, results may vary, and we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Mirasol disclaims any obligations to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law.
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- Cerro Vanguardia矿正南方的Claudia项目:距离钢厂15公里
- 在头24个月内至少钻井2500米,并选择在4年内完成12,500米钻井
- Mirasol在行使期权时保留2%的NSR特许权使用费
- 南部大多数矿脉就在Cerro Vanguardia物业上,趋势是Claudia物业
- 在非常大的Claudia地产内有五个独特的、极具前瞻性的矿脉趋势
- 已有用水许可和准入协议的可钻探目标
温哥华,不列颠哥伦比亚省,2023年5月23日(环球通讯社)-Mirasol Resources Ltd.(多伦多证券交易所-V:MRZ)(场外交易:MRZLF)(“公司“或”米拉索尔)很高兴地报告与英美黄金阿散蒂(92.5%)和FOMICRUZ S.E.(7.5%)拥有的Cerro Vanguardia SA金银矿(“CVSA”)签署了一项期权协议(“协议”),勘探位于阿根廷圣克鲁斯省CVSA金银矿正南方的Mirasol的Claudia金银项目(“Claudia”)。
与CVSA的协议展示了克劳迪亚公司继续发现和开发资源的潜力。米拉索尔的总裁蒂姆·希南说。2%的特许权使用费有可能为Mirasol的股东带来巨大的短期价值因为在Claudia定义的资源可以在附近的Cerro Vanguardia工厂快速高效地加工。
图1:地区区域地图
占地65,192公顷的Claudia金银项目是一个极具前景的低硫化浅成热液(LSE)金银项目,位于阿根廷圣克鲁斯省的Deseado Massif,直接毗邻正在开采的CVSA矿的南部边界。在克劳迪亚已确定了五个不同的矿脉趋势,包括库拉休矿田和里约塞科展望。2012年,Mirasol发现了向西北方向延伸的15公里长的Curahue脉田,它可以被认为是一个南向平行构造,类似于更北的Cerro Vanguardia脉田的控制构造。Curahue有六个孤立的静脉段。克劳迪娅还在卡兰德里亚和里约塞科拥有两个浅层的古地表“烧结场”。这些烧结矿被认为是有吸引力的目标,因为在下面发现的任何矿化结构都将被完整地保存下来,不会因侵蚀而减少。到目前为止,这两个烧结点都没有被钻探过。Claudia项目的勘探潜力,特别是沿基本未经检验的Curahue和Rio Seco趋势,显示出明显的Vanguardia式矿脉赋存的浅成热液金银矿化潜力。
图2:主要前景和矿化趋势
克劳迪娅期权协议的条款
A)在协议的头两年内,CVSA可根据其制定钻探目标的绝对酌情决定权完成测绘和采样、挖沟和地球物理,并履行至少2500米钻石钻探的钻探承诺;然后,根据协议条款,CVSA将可以选择:
(一)三年内完成,累计不少于6000米的钻石钻探;
2)四年内完成,累计不少于12,500米的钻石钻探;
B)于完成上述承诺后,CVSA将有权行使协议项下的选择权,并受特许权使用费协议条款的规限,CVSA将就Claudia项目未来的生产向Mirasol授予2%的冶炼厂特许权使用费。
米拉索尔的克劳迪娅庄园的历史
克劳迪娅项目最初是在2004年作为米拉索尔的圣克鲁兹勘探计划的一部分。Mirasol与各合资企业(JV)合作伙伴共同完成了19000多米的联合反循环(RC)和钻石岩心(DDH)钻探,4000多线公里的地面磁测,249线公里(43平方公里)覆盖六个独立区块的梯度阵列激电地球物理,近100线公里的电性激电极偶极地球物理测线,采集了3500多个岩石碎屑样品,200个战壕的4500个岩石壕沟样品,近1000个MMI地球化学土壤样品和1500公里2.在详细的地质测绘中。
2006至2010年间,与合资伙伴共同完成了两个阶段的钻探,包括26个孔的3,794米钻探和25个孔的3,168米RC钻探。这些活动的钻探结果包括多次截获白银超过100克/吨,其中5次截获白银118克/吨至217克/吨白银和高达1.3克/吨黄金。
2012年,Mirasol的内部勘探团队扩大并定义了令人印象深刻的15公里长的Curahue矿脉走向,该矿脉基本上被浅层砾石覆盖(<5米)所掩盖,被认为拥有六个大型的独立矿脉走向,即Europa、IO、Ganymede、Calisto、Themisto和Sinope区段。在电子激电(梯度阵列)地球物理运动的掩护下,追踪到了这些趋势的大量扩展。
图3:Curahue趋势-主要矿化脉段和Themisto可充电性目标
在位于Claudia最东端的Rio Seco探矿,Mirasol的早期勘探在Claudia发现了第一批露头矿脉,在那里精选的地表样品从“J脉”中获得了高达20.1g/t的金和1175g/t的银。锯切水道和沟渠交叉口从广阔的Rio Seco矿脉油田沿线矿化带返回0.7米,含金量为13.9克/吨,含银量为229克/吨,含金量为1.9克/吨,含银量为22克/吨(见2012年6月14日的新闻稿)。
在2012年第二季度,Mirasol在25个孔中总共钻了2,599米。最好的结果包括分别进行高达0.83米的6.59g/t黄金和139.3 g/t银(9.12g/t金当量)的分析,以及高达15.3m的0.29g/t黄金和50.9g/t白银(1.22g/t金当量)的异常金银广泛交叉(见2013年3月4日的新闻稿)。
2016/17年度,在之前与CVSA的合资企业下,在Claudia完成了总计7525米的RC和DDH钻井。大部分钻探集中在“IO静脉”一段2.2公里处,这是迄今沿着15公里长的Curahue趋势确定的六个远景之一(见2016年12月16日和2017年2月17日的新闻稿)。
一名少校“里程碑在“IO”矿脉的CVSA钻探中,发现了一个600米长的开放矿化体,承载着银/金矿化,该矿化始于地表以下几米处,并已进行了垂直深度135米的钻探测试。这种强烈的矿化趋势需要后续工作,既要向下倾斜,也要沿着构造的走向进行。主要结果包括:
高品位矿脉:0.6米,黄金11.72克/吨,银1,224克/吨。
静脉和静脉复合体:9.3m,黄金1.40g/t,白银134.6 g/t。
从2017年10月到2019年3月,Mirasol与合资伙伴在Claudia的12个洞中钻了2529米。截至2018年7月完成的钻探主要集中在Curahue前景,共完成了10个总长2270米的DDH孔,以测试欧罗巴,木卫一,Themisto和卡利斯托部分,沿着库拉休趋势的延伸。
Curahue勘探、Europa和IO矿脉趋势的钻探结果包括0.6米,0.08克/吨黄金和610.0克/吨白银,0.55米,1.15克/吨黄金和22.9g/吨白银;0.9米,1.95克/吨黄金和5.7克/吨白银(见2018年9月17日发布的新闻稿)。
合资企业终止后,Mirasol完成了额外的地面勘探工作,从而确定了有待测试的新钻探目标。从Curahue Trend共采集了249个新的岩屑样品,结果表明,金和银的含量分别为7.99 g/t和69 g/t。此外,还完成了两项新的IP地球物理调查,重点是Curahue和Themisto的前景,扩大了Claudia的现有调查覆盖范围(见2019年5月8日的新闻稿)。
智利Rubi铜矿项目
Mirasol今天还宣布,智利Rubi铜斑岩项目(“Rubi”)与澳大利亚私营公司mine Discovery Fund Pty Ltd.(“MDF”)的期权协议已终止。在期权协议期限内,MDF超过了其合同最低承诺,在勘探上花费了89万美元(见2020年10月15日的新闻稿)。勘探计划包括野外测绘、地表采样、地球物理和在Lithocap和Zafiro目标的1887米钻探。在恢复Rubi的100%权益后,Mirasol正在评估完善Rubi剩余钻探目标的方案,目前正在与潜在的替代合作伙伴讨论钻探测试这些目标。
关于米拉索尔资源有限公司
Mirasol是一家资金雄厚的勘探公司,在智利和阿根廷矿产丰富的地区拥有18年的运营、许可和社区关系经验。Mirasol 100%控制着阿根廷的高品位弗吉尼亚银矿,目前正自筹资金勘探位于智利的两个旗舰项目--Sobek和Inca Gold。Mirasol还继续推进一系列极具前瞻性的早期和中期项目。
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前瞻性陈述:本新闻稿中的信息包含前瞻性陈述,这些陈述会受到许多已知和未知的风险、不确定性和其他因素的影响,这些风险、不确定性和其他因素可能会导致实际结果与我们的前瞻性陈述中预期的大不相同。可能造成这种差异的因素包括:世界商品市场、股票市场、与采矿业有关的材料的成本和供应的变化、政府的变化以及影响采矿业的法规和与流行病、社会和环境相关事项有关的政策的变化。本新闻稿中的前瞻性陈述包括有关未来勘探计划、运营计划、地质解释、矿物保有权问题和矿物回收过程的陈述。尽管我们相信我们的前瞻性陈述中反映的预期是合理的,但结果可能会有所不同,我们不能保证未来的结果、活动水平、业绩或成就。除非适用法律要求,否则Mirasol不承担任何因新信息、未来事件或其他原因而更新或修改任何前瞻性陈述的义务。
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