South Atlantic Gold Inc. (TSXV:SAO) has engaged Stratus Aeronautics Inc. (Strata), with headquarters in British Columbia, Canada and offices in Brazil, to perform a high-resolution drone magnetic survey over the Pedra Branca Project located in Ceará State, Brazil.
Geophysical Programme
The drone magnetic survey will be conducted over the Pedra Branca gold resource reported in the NI 43-101 technical report and extending one to two km laterally along the NI20E exploration trend.
The objective is to use the magnetics to define a standard signature over areas of known mineralisation to provide an additional guide for the exploration as well as possible additions to the magnetic survey.
These magnetic signatures should help guide the proposed drilling campaign to potentially increase the inferred mineral resources in the second quarter of 2022.
Initially, the drone flight plan is scheduled to fly over two sectors:
- First, the Coelhos-Queimadas and Igrejinha targets to the north. The plan will be focused on the creation of a pattern at Coelhos-Queimadas and to obtain a magnetic profile over the area encompassing both the Coelhos-Queimadas and Igrejinha targets.
- Second, the southern Pedra Branca tenements using the same approach as above, over the Mirador and Mir-Coelho targets.
Initially a total of 508 km will be flown by Strata with line spacing of 50 m.
“This drone magnetic survey is a significant step toward developing optimal exploration methodologies over the majority of the Troia Greenstone Belt controlled by South Atlantic,” CEO, Douglas Meirelles, said.
“By defining the magnetic signature and the structural footprint over the current drilled resource, we can apply these parameters to design and select targeted extensions of the resource and prioritise new drill targets over several areas including the zones of anomalous mineralisation discovered during the recent trenching programme.
“We look forward to integrating these results into our current geological database and to systematically advance this project.”
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