BRAZIL –
Altamira Gold announced that it is working towards completing an updated resource estimate for its flagship Cajueiro gold project located in the northern part of Mato Grosso state in western Brazil.
To move ahead, the Canadian miner hired
Global Resource Engineering.
Cajueiro comprises NI 43-101 compliant resources of 8.64 million tonnes at 0.78 g/t gold (for 214,000 oz.) in the indicated resource category and 9.53 million tonnes at 0.66 g/t gold (for 204,000 oz.) in the inferred resource category and an additional 1.37 million tonnes at 1.61 g/t gold in oxides (for 79,000 oz. in saprolite) in the Inferred Resource category.
The resource estimate was completed in May 2016 and, according to Altamira, is based on 10,282 metres of drilling and 48 drill holes within an area of 275 hectares.
Since then, the company has drilled an additional 49 diamond drill holes totaling 3,154 metres and completed 25 surface trenches totaling 4,063 metres. This work was largely focused on the Baldo East area which is located 500 metres due east of the existing Baldo resource and has resulted in the discovery of several parallel high grade structures.
Based on these findings, the Vancouver-based miner considers it necessary to revise its resource estimate.
The Cajueiro project comprises a large land package located in the Alta Floresta-Juruena gold belt, a Proterozoic arc consisting of calc-alkaline granite-volcanic, and medium to high grade metamorphic crustal segments.
Historic gold production in the belt is recognized to be in the range of 7 million to 10 million oz., primarily from
garimpeiro activity.
This story first appeared on www.Mining.com.
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