Actualización sobre la exploración de oro de Dolgellau
Alba Mineral Resources Plc / EPIC: ALBA / Mercado: AIM / Sector: Minería
2 de abril de 2024
Alba Recursos Minerales Plc
("Alba" o la "Compañía")
Actualización sobre la exploración de oro de Dolgellau
New Targets Identified Through Airborne Magnetic Surveys
Alba Mineral Resources Plc (AIM: ALBA) is pleased to announce three gold targets which have been identified from the review and interpretation of the first part of the magnetic data generated during Alba's recent airborne magnetic survey of certain high-priority gold targets across the Dolgellau Gold Belt ("DGB"). Two of the targets are located within the envelope of the Company's 100% owned Clogau-St David's Gold Mine in north Wales ("Clogau" or the "Mine") and represent the potential definition of new drill targets within the Mine. The third target has been identified on a fault that extends 4 km northeasterly in the DGB and thus falls within the Company's 100% owned Dolgellau Gold Exploration Project.
Lista de verificación
· Alba commissioned airborne magnetic surveys over the Clogau, Castell Carndochan and Hafod Owen prospects, located in the DGB. These were flown between November 2023 and January 2024.
· As the target gold quartz veins are not magnetic, proxy structures (as in proxies for gold) are looked for in the magnetic data. In the case of Clogau and the DGB, discontinuities in the magnetic sill basement can be used as proxy markers for the possible presence of mineralised quartz veins and therefore worthy of further ground investigations.
· The two in-mine targets may merit follow-up underground drilling to define potential new economic zones of mineralisation. The third target will be subjected to basic ground exploration involving geochemical sampling and mapping and ground-truthing for the presence of any outcropping quartz vein.
· These new targets identified to date only relate to one part of the completed airborne magnetic survey. The interpretation of the survey data over the Carndochan and Hafod Owen prospects is awaited and will be reported on in due course.
Mark Austin, Alba's COO and Senior Geologist, commented:
"The airborne magnetic survey that we recently carried out over some of our key targets over the DGB is the first survey of its kind since the regional survey that was undertaken by the British Geological Survey in the early 1970s. Given advances in technology, this latest survey has revealed a lot more detail than was generated by that earlier survey. Thus, we now have data guiding us to the identification of specific exploration targets.
"The three targets that we have identified over the Clogau-St Davids survey area make a lot of sense in the context of the overall geological model we have developed over the years. From the drilling we carried out in 2021, we were able to identify vein structures parallel to the main Clogau vein, and this has now been corroborated by the aeromagnetic survey data. The advantage of two of the targets being in-mine is that we should be able to access them by the drilling of some short holes from the existing underground development, a much quicker and most cost-effective way to prove up these potentially new gold-bearing vein structures.
"These are exciting developments and we look forward now to the reporting of the interpretations of the Castell Carndochan and Hafod Owen survey areas to see what further targets may be revealed over this hugely prospective, and still massively underexplored, gold belt."
Detalles
Unmanned aerial vehicle (or "UAV") magnetic surveys were carried out by Alba's specialist contractors between November2023 and January 2024, targeting the Clogau, Castell Carndochan and Hafod Owen gold prospects within the DGB.
The interpretation of the airborne survey over the Clogau prospect has generated three new targets of immediate interest. These targets will be subjected to further focused exploration or "ground truthing" to confirm whether they host mineralised quartz veins.
As the target gold quartz veins are nonmagnetic, proxy structures are used that can be identified in the magnetic data. The targeted gold quartz veins are typically associated with the ubiquitous normal faulting of east to north-east (ENE) strike. Because these faults postdate the emplacement of the regional magnetic sill complex (estimated at a depth of 50 to 70 m below surface), they might exhibit discontinuities within the imaged magnetic field. These magnetic discontinuities are regarded as potential sites for further ground investigations, especially the intersection of structures. These are potential fault-related dilation structures, which may enhance permeability and consequent conduits for mineralised quartz veins.
Figura 1. Map of lineaments of ENE to NE strike (Black) superposed with mapped quartz veins (Purple) underlain by a magnetic map generated from the 2023-24 aeromagnetic survey data.
Figura 2. Aeromagnetic map of the Clogau survey area showing the three newly identified exploration targets (circled yellow).
Target 1 is centred on the Brynterion Fault and the displacement of the Clogau vein across the fault to St Davids (see Figures 1 and 3). Alba geologists have previously identified this area as having potential for additional vein development and this has now been confirmed by the survey.
Target 2 shows possible faulting which intersects the current Clogau vein in the Grandfathers area - an area of known structural complexity (see Figures 1 and 3). It also shows that the magnetic anomalies pick out the trend of the Clogau vein. The Grandfathers area was extensively stoped on high grade ore and is easily accessible along the Llechfraith Adit. The target area shown represents new potential zones of mineralisation at Grandfathers which have never previously been mined.
Target 3 is based on a strong anomaly centred on an interpreted arcuate structural feature which extends from the north-east to the west across the Clogau area (see Figure 2).
Figura 3. Zoomed in aeromagnetic map of the Clogau survey area showing the two newly identified in-mine exploration targets (circled yellow).
Este anuncio contiene información privilegiada para los propósitos de la Regulación de Abuso del Mercado del Reino Unido y los Directores de la Compañía son responsables de la publicación de este anuncio.
Declaraciones prospectivas
Este anuncio contiene declaraciones prospectivas relacionadas con eventos futuros esperados o anticipados y resultados anticipados que son de naturaleza prospectiva y, como resultado, están sujetos a ciertos riesgos e incertidumbres, tales como condiciones económicas, de mercado y comerciales generales, competencia por personal calificado, el proceso y las acciones regulatorias, cuestiones técnicas, nueva legislación, incertidumbres resultantes de posibles retrasos o cambios en los planes, incertidumbres resultantes de trabajar en una nueva jurisdicción política, incertidumbres sobre los resultados de la exploración, incertidumbres sobre el momento y la concesión de la prospección derechos, incertidumbres con respecto al momento y la concesión de consentimientos y aprobaciones regulatorias y de terceros, incertidumbres con respecto a la capacidad de la Compañía o de cualquier tercero para ejecutar e implementar planes futuros, y la ocurrencia de eventos inesperados. Los resultados reales obtenidos pueden variar de la información proporcionada en este documento como resultado de numerosos riesgos e incertidumbres conocidos y desconocidos y otros factores.
Declaración de persona competente
La información de este comunicado que se relaciona con los resultados de la exploración ha sido revisada por el Sr. Mark Austin. El Sr. Austin es miembro de SACNASP (número de registro 400235/06), miembro de la Sociedad Geológica y miembro de la Sociedad Geológica de Sudáfrica. Tiene un B.Sc. Honores en Geología con 40 años de experiencia.
Mark Austin tiene suficiente experiencia que es relevante para el estilo de mineralización y el tipo de depósito en consideración y para la actividad que se está llevando a cabo para calificar como Persona Competente según se define en la Edición de 2012 del 'Código de Australasia para el Informe de Objetivos de Exploración, Resultados de Exploración , Recursos Minerales y Reservas Minerales ', también conocido como el Código JORC. El código JORC es una organización de informes nacional que está alineada con CRIRSCO. El Sr. Austin consiente la inclusión en el anuncio de los asuntos con base en su información en la forma y contexto en que aparecen.
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Alba Recursos Minerales plc George Frangeskides, presidente ejecutivo | +44 20 3950 0725
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CMC Markets plc (Broker) Thomas Smith/Douglas Crippen | +44 20 3003 8632
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Proyectos e inversiones de Alba | ||
Proyectos operados por Alba | Destino | Propiedad |
Clogau (oro) | Gales | 100% |
Exploración de oro Dolgellau (oro) | Gales | 100% |
Gwynfynydd (oro) | Gales | 100% |
Inversiones en poder de Alba | Destino | Propiedad |
GreenRoc Mining Plc (minería) | Tierra Verde | 37.49% |
Horse Hill (aceite) | England | 11.765% |
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