Tesoro Resources Limited (ASX:TSO) is pleased to announce first pass assay results from initial surface mapping and rock chip channel sampling programs on new targets at the company’s El Zorro Gold Project in Chile.
Results have been received for 309 surface rock chip channel samples over the Drone Hill Target and north-west of Drone Hill.
Anomalous gold results have been reported delineating a new 1.5km long and up to 450m wide, surface gold trend associated with a north-west trending fault system cross cutting the EZT and sedimentary rock sequences.
Results include:
- 3.00m @ 101.50g/t Au;
- 1.00m @ 12.75g/t Au;
- 1.20m @ 12.70g/t Au; and
- 6.00m @ 1.63g/t Au.
“These results highlight the prospectivity of the El Zorro Gold Project to host additional gold mineralisation outside of the Ternera Gold resource,” Managing Director Zeff Reeves said.
“We are excited by the potential shown to the north-west of Ternera with extensive outcrops of El Zorro Tonalite having been mapped over 4km from Ternera and some very strong zones of outcropping gold mineralisation. El Zorro continues to emerge as a new gold district in Chile.”
First pass geological mapping and sampling has identified a new 1.5km long gold trend with continuous gold anomalism returned from sampling the western margin of the Ternera Gold Deposit, through the Drone Hill Prospect and open to the north-west.
High grade channel sample results are associated with a major north-west trending fault system up to 450m wide, which is interpreted to have acted as a conduit for gold bearing fluids. Faults are mineralised within sedimentary rocks and the main gold host rock at El Zorro, the EZT.
In addition extensive outcrops of the favourable EZT have been mapped continuously up to 4.5km north of the Ternera Gold Deposit. The company believes this further highlights the significant gold prospectivity that exists at El Zorro with excellent potential for additional gold mineralisation outside of Ternera.
The gold mineralisation identified and the mapped EZT is open to the west and the north. Additional mapping and sampling programmes are currently underway to define further drill targets.
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