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El Gigante Available
Location:Utah, USA
Metal:Gold, Silver
Target:Undrilled gold bearing, low-sulphidation quartz veins exposed on surface
The El Gigante project covers approximately 3.4 square kilometres of BLM claims located four kilometres north of Modena, Utah. El Gigante is located near the margins of the White Rock and Isom Calderas proximal to the historical Stateline and Goldsprings precious metal districts.
Overview
The property is centered on two main veins sets, consisting of up to three metre wide, sub-parallel , 350 metre long quartz veins on surface. The veins display abundant overprinting of boiling textures such as quartz after platy calcite and sparse crustiform and banded textures evidence for multiple veining episodes. Sampling of the vein has returned anomalous pathfinder elements and up to 101 ppb gold.
The peripheries of the main veins and subsidiary structures display silica-smectite-dominant alteration suggesting a shallow level of exposure and the potential for greater widths and gold grades at depth.
The El Gigante vein displays strong textural and mineralogical similarities to the Ermitaño vein discovery, Mexico made by members of the Orogen team a decade ago. Initial sampling at Ermitaño returned only 70 ppb gold but follow-up drilling intercepted 18 meters length, 14.5m true length, at 11.4 g/t gold and 86 g/t silver from 242 metres downhole. First Majestic started production from Ermitaño in 2021.
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