Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX: PAAS) has received results from 22 new infill and exploration drill holes totalling 18,071 metres that further demonstrate the size and quality of the mineralisation at the company’s La Colorada Skarn project in Mexico.
Infill drill hole D-96-03-22, in the western portion of the deposit, contains an extensive zone of high-grade silver and base metal sulphide mineralisation with an intercept of 295.5 metres at 234 g/t Ag, 6.36% Pb and 5.72% Zn, including 97.0 metres at 654 g/t Ag, 15.35% Pb and 11.38% Zn.
“Drillhole D-96-03-22 returned the highest-grade intercept from the more than 200,000 metres drilled to date on the La Colorada Skarn project,” said Christopher Emerson, Pan American’s Vice President Business Development and Geology.
“Further infill drilling will provide tighter spacing to help define this high-grade zone, while step out drilling targets extension of the footprint to the west where the mineralisation is still open.”
Drill Highlights Include:
- D-96-03-22: 295.50 m at 234 g/t Ag, 0.09% Cu, 6.36% Pb and 5.72% Zn, including 97.00 m at 654 g/t Ag, 0.16% Cu, 15.35% Pb and 11.38% Zn
- D-96-04-22: 31.25 m at 216 g/t Ag, 0.05% Cu, 5.60% Pb and 4.82% Zn and 40.65 m at 99 g/t Ag, 0.03% Cu, 3.64% Pb and 4.50% Zn
- D-71-07-22: 188.50 m at 59 g/t Ag, 0.09% Cu, 3.14% Pb and 4.82% Zn, including 91.30 m at 70 g/t Ag, 0.13% Cu, 3.57% Pb and 5.86% Zn
- D-93-03-22: 117.65 m at 35 g/t Ag, 0.09% Cu, 2.75% Pb and 3.92% Zn
- D-93-04-22: 69.10 m at 48 g/t Ag, 0.06% Cu, 3.78% Pb and 4.83% Zn
- D-93-05-22: 188.70 m at 68 g/t Ag, 0.11% Cu, 4.66% Pb and 6.16% Zn, including 62.65 m at 77 g/t Ag, 0.13% Cu, 6.69% Pb and 7.58% Zn
- U-11-22: 67.70 m at 54 g/t Ag, 0.12% Cu, 3.69% Pb and 5.38% Zn
- U-18-22: 160.90 m at 82 g/t Ag, 0.16% Cu, 3.67% Pb and 6.30% Zn, including 104.60 m at 83 g/t Ag, 0.20% Cu, 5.14% Pb and 8.91% Zn and 124.20 m at 50 g/t Ag, 0.11% Cu, 2.04% Pb and 2.66% Zn, including 43.95 m at 70 g/t Ag, 0.18% Cu, 4.10% Pb and 5.05% Zn.
Pan American plans to provide an update to the mineral resource estimate for the La Colorada Skarn in the third quarter of 2022. The cut-off date for the resource update was April 30, 2022, hence the drill results disclosed today will not be included in the upcoming mineral resource update.
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