Both projects are located within the Alta Floresta Gold Belt in
Highlights are as follows
Results from the first two diamond drill holes at Mutum confirm the presence of a broad zone of disseminated gold within altered intrusive rocks. Drill hole DDMUT-0001 returned 131.75m @ 0.15g/t gold indicating the potential for significant volumes of primary gold mineralization within the project area
Two new environmental permits totaling 110 hectares have been received to allow drill access to additional areas of the central zone of the former Mutum alluvial workings which extend over an east-west distance of 6km
A second diamond drill rig has been contracted to begin Altamira's maiden drill program at the Santa Helena project. An initial 2000m of diamond drilling is planned to test both high-grade gold and copper vein mineralization and possible porphyry targets with drilling expected to begin in
MUTUM TARGET, APIACAS PROJECT
The Mutum target is part of the
In 2019, geological mapping outlined an area of pervasive disseminated-style gold mineralization over at least 4 km2 at Mutum. A total of 93 surface rock samples of disseminated and altered rocks collected on surface over this area returned gold values of up to 406.6 g/t gold. Recent exploration has also identified four high-grade vein structures with channel samples returning values up to 3m @ 10.39 g/t gold. Silver assays have also returned high grade values up to 871 g/t silver.
In 2021, Altamira completed an extensive Induced Polarization ('IP') geophysical program which identified an east-west trending chargeability feature 6km in length, associated with quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration and disseminated gold mineralization in intrusive rocks within the area of historic placer gold workings.
Initial diamond drilling has been limited to the areas with active drill permits covering a 1.5 kilometer east-west corridor within the Mutum target. The first six diamond drill holes were drilled to downhole depths of between 126 m and 276 metres and targeted both chargeability anomalies and the depth extension of the surface gold mineralization indicated by both the historic artisanal mining and the channel sample results collected by Altamira.
The first diamond drill hole, DDMUT-0001, returned 131.75m @ 0.15g/t gold indicating the presence of widespread disseminated gold mineralization within intrusive rocks at Mutum. The drill hole DDMUT-0001 shows a wide section of silicified and sericitized syenogranite which is foliated and displays disseminated pyrite mineralization similar to that mapped and sampled on surface. The second drill hole DDMUT-002 collared to the south of the first hole did not intersect the same silicified and sericitized syenogranite seen in the first hole but cut a two metre wide zone which assayed 0,45 g/t gold within sericitized syenogranite host rock. Drilling of the first six holes was limited to a 1.5 kilometer east-west corridor but with the extension of the environmental permit published recently drilling will be expanded a further 1.5 kilometers to the west in areas which have been historically heavily worked for gold on surface. Both disseminated pyritic and gold mineralization and north-easterly trending higher grade vein structures will be targeted in the next series of drill holes planned for this recently permitted area. Analyses from holes DDMUT-0003-6 are awaited.
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