Prior to initiating the airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, AngloGold completed mapping and sampling at Organullo to define three drill target areas with high-temperature advanced argillic alteration extending over a strike length of more than 6km.
The Organullo project is transected by a north-northeast-trending large-scale graben, which measures 5km across. The graben itself is displaced by the Medial Fault which divides the graben into West Graben and East Graben.
The eastern portion of the graben is where all the historical exploration has been undertaken, in close proximity to the historical
The western portion of the graben has been largely ignored by at least eight previous operators who were focused on the vicinity of the Julio Verne mine. AngloGold took a different and holistic approach to the property and, for the first time identified intense, proximal, advanced argillic alteration in volcanic rocks and breccias pipes located within the West Graben. This geological environment is prospective for porphyry copper-gold and high-sulphidation epithermal gold deposits, and it has never been tested by drilling.
AngloGold's exploration thesis, if correct, could result in the discovery of a significant mineral deposit at Organullo. The interpretation is supported by multiple data sets including geological mapping, WorldView-3 imagery, photogeological interpretation, TerraSpec data, and ASTER data, as well as geochemical analysis. Within the newly prioritized West Graben, drill targets are further supported by higher-temperature alteration mineralogy and favourable deposit-scale structural settings.
With drill targets already identified and a drill permit application submitted for approximately 12,000m of drilling, AngloGold took the additional step of completing an airborne geophysical survey. The survey collected magnetic and radiometric data over the Organullo property. The results add weight to the validity of the AngloGold drill targets with a distinct zone of magnetically complex signatures coinciding with West Graben and coincident with the already-defined drill targets. This complex magnetic signature contrasts with the historically drilled East Graben, where the magnetic signature is flat and where drill hole results can be interpreted as peripheral to a porphyry-epithermal system.
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