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Highlights
- Nineteen gold and copper gold properties partially or 100% owned by Cardero totalling over 125,000 hectares.
- Finalizing the acquisition of twelve new gold properties located in the provinces of Jujuy and Catamarca in northwest Argentina. The properties cover an aggregate area of approximately 580 square kilometres and are a combination of 100% Cardero owned (staked) ground and land being acquired through option agreements with local third parties (presently being finalized). The discovery and acquisition of these properties is the result of an aggressive year long multidisciplinary regional exploration program targeting a Sedimentary Hosted Vein (SHV) model in the 61,000 square kilometre Ordovician Santa Victoria Basin.
- Geologically, the Huachi property is comprised of a high-level porphyry complex that displays all the characteristics of a high sulfidation, epithermal gold system. The property is also prospective for porphyry copper mineralization, the underlying intrusive phases are cross-cut by a well-developed quartz - sulphide stockwork and, locally, copper oxides (in addition to bornite - chalcopyrite - quartz - magnetite - 'shreddy' biotite and potassium feldspar) are present. During the initial property examination and due diligence Cardero geologists collected 47 rock samples within the "Main Stockwork Zone" at Huachi. Anomalous gold grades were returned from every area sampled, with an average of all samples returning 0.88 g/t gold. In addition, a 135 metre long continuous chip sample, collected in a distal portion of the system, averaged 0.38 g/t gold (within which a 10 metre chip sample returned 4.18 g/t gold).
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