Antilles Gold Limited (ASX:AAU) has completed four preliminary diamond drillholes totalling 1,110m downhole on the El Pilar copper-gold porphyry deposit, and its overlying gold-copper oxide deposit in central Cuba.
All four drillholes have been collared along 300m of strike of the El Pilar porphyry copper-gold oxide exposure and have tested both the high-grade gold domain (upper oxide zone) and the lower leached copper domain (lower oxide zone).
Additionally, all of the drillholes continued into fresh rock where porphyry-style hydrothermal alteration, veining and copper sulphide mineralization was encountered in varying amounts, representing the outer mineralized halo of a prospective copper- gold porphyry system.
An additional three drillholes in the current preliminary programme will target both the oxide and sulphide zones to better define the extent and style of the alteration system for the upcoming ground Induced Polarization (IP) and ground magnetometry (magnetics) surveys over an area 3km x 2km that will cover the very large El Pilar surface geochemical and alteration footprint.
Assay results will commence in approximately four weeks but the company has obtained promising mineralisation observations to date.
Results from the current preliminary drilling programme are expected to justify the 15,000m programme planned for next year.
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