お知らせ • Oct 09
Romios Gold Resources Inc. Provides a Review of the New Honeycomb Hill Porphyry Cu-Au-Ag Target at the Kinkaid Property, Nevada, USA
Romios Gold Resources Inc. provided a cumulative review of the encouraging assay and geological results from the Honeycomb Hill prospect, one of several potential porphyry Cu-Au-Ag centres on Romios' Kinkaid property in Mineral County, Nevada. Highlights: At Honeycomb Hill, the apparent porphyry copper centre and overlying epithermal to mesothermal base and precious metal rich vein system has now been expanded to an area >450 x 450 m with the discovery of numerous historic underground mine workings and highly mineralized trenches. The mineralized zones appear to trend under younger, overlying volcanics to the south. The largest old mine workings consist of a 70 m long series of 4 adits and underground workings at Honeycomb Hill itself and these have returned assays ranging from trace amounts to 78.16 g/t Au, 12.1% Cu, and 575 g/t Ag. These old mines are centred in an extensive area of pervasive, iron-stained sericitic alteration that itself is anomalous in Au, Hg, Pb and Sb (Sample B994722). The alteration shows up well on a recent SWIR satellite image and extends well beyond the known workings. Sampling of the ore veins inside the main workings at Honeycomb Hill in 2024 confirmed the very high silver content of the galena, 574 g/t and 189 g/t Ag, with gold values of 0.26 g/t and 3.45 g/t Au. A small mine shaft and nearby adit ("Newfound Mine") located 325 m west of Honeycomb Hill, within the main alteration zone, returned assays of 2.44 g/t to 32.0 g/t Au and 1.27% to 3.22% Cu. Highly mineralized trenches discovered in June, 2024, 100 m north of the aforementioned "Newfound Mine", returned assays of 1.3 g/t to 26.96 g/t Au and 1.55% to 12.09% Cu in two quartz vein samples with visible secondary copper minerals, as well as high mercury in one sample: 5,098 ppb Hg. Geological Interpretation of the Honeycomb Hill Target: The main mine workings at Honeycomb Hill lie along one of the largest alteration zones on the Kinkaid property, up to 275 m long and 90 m wide, which is now believed to be part of a larger porphyry-related mineralized system at least 450 x 450 m that extends farther south underneath younger volcanics. Work by Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) satellite imagery experts at Photosat has determined that the alteration is dominated by (iron-stained) sericite that is a close match to the strong alteration found around the Montreal Au-Ag mine 800 m to the north. In addition to the often exceptional assays of high-grade Au, Ag and Cu in the old workings across the breadth of the >450 m wide target area, a large chip sample of the typical alteration near one of the adits assayed 0.13% Pb, 43 ppb Au, 41 ppm Sb, 707 ppm As, and 443 ppb Hg, indicating that broad areas of the discoloured, friable, altered host rocks are also weakly mineralized and have been subjected to the passage of mineralizing fluids. Sampling of narrow galena veins left behind by early miners in the Honeycomb Hill stopes confirm that the galena carries high silver values, 189 g/t and 574 g/t Ag, as well as elevated gold, mercury and antimony values. The most gold-rich sample from the mine dumps also contains a high level of tellurium (Sample B994709, 78.16 g/t Au, 86.6 ppm Te). Future Work: An initial program of detailed geological mapping and soil sampling is now proposed to outline the full extent of this altered, mineralized centre (as well as the other 3-4 targets on the Kinkaid property), to be followed by an airborne magnetometer and electromagnetic survey designed to outline the suspected porphyry intrusion(s) at depth and any associated sulphide mineralization. Depending on the results of this work, an IP or CSAMT geophysical survey may then be warranted to define the most promising drill targets.