お知らせ • Nov 14
Soma Gold Extends Venus Vein with Drilling Intersects of 13.9 G/T Au over 7.55M, Including 48.6 G/T Au over 1.45M and 24.7 G/T Au over 1.3M, At the Cordero Mine, El Bagre, Antioquia, Colombia
Soma Gold Corp. announced initial results from the 2024 diamond drill program targeting the "Venus Gap" at the Cordero Mine on the Bagre Project in central Colombia. Ten diamond drill holes, totaling 1,476m of underground drilling, were targeted to infill a gap in the historic drilling north of the Venus Vein. Previously, mining on the Venus Vein encountered a complex zone of mafic dykes and lower-grade, thin anastomosing quartz veins and was terminated. The drilling results in this release extend the strike of the vein to the northwest and down dip to the northeast. Highlights include the following drill intercepts: BAZUDDH-24-018: 5.2m at 16.1g/t Au, including 0.8m at 94.3g/t Au, RVDDH-23-005: 3.3m at 28.3g/t Au, including 0.5m at 6.3g/t Au, RVICDDH-24-018: 1m at 12.5g/t Au, RVICDDH-24-021: 1m at 11.2g/t Au, including 0.4m at 27.6g/t Au, RVICDDH-24-024: 7.55m at 13.9g/t Au, including 1.3m at 24.7g/t Auand 1.45m at 48.6g/t Au, VICDDH-23-006: 3.5m at 10.7g/t Au, including 1m at 21.3g/t Au, 0.85m at 10.7g/t Au, and 0.65m at 9.0g/t Au. The Cordero Deposit is hosted in the El Carmen Stock, comprised of coarse-grained tonalite, diorite, and gabbroic phases. The quartz veins are laminated fault-fill veins within a sinistral brittle-ductile shear zone. They are interpreted as conjugate shears in a steeply-dipping, north-striking regional shear zone. The controlling shear zone also hosts the Los Mangos Deposit, located 2.8 kilometres to the north. The quartz veins within the Cordero Deposit form a series of en echelon segments that consistently step to the right along strike. The veins have been repeatedly reactivated and exhibit three distinct phases of development: early barren quartz veins, sphalerite + galena + pyrite + gold mineralization controlled by microfractures, and brittle fracturing along the vein margins filled with quartz, pyrite, tellurides, and gold. Gold mineralization is associated with the latter two phases of vein development. The final stage of brittle fracturing and micro-breccia is commonly associated with 'bonanza' gold grades. The veins are subsequently crosscut by aphanitic mafic dykes and numerous brittle faults. The brittle faults are generally dextral and offset the quartz veins from <1.0m to 10's of metres. The late brittle faults commonly dismember the mineralized veins into short strike-length segments, the continuity of which is difficult to discern from drill data. The Cordero Deposit is informally divided into five main zones: Athenas, Cordero, Venus, Venus Gap, and Victoria Ramp zones . The high-grade intercepts delineate two segments of the vein system that are separated by a cross-cutting mafic dyke swarm. The vein segments are located proximal to existing mine workings in the Victoria Ramp and Venus Vein areas. A lower stope, the 1600 stope, is currently being mined, and access is planned from the Victoria Ramp workings to access the upper veins. Additionally, mining has restarted at the north end of the Venus vein to follow the veins northwestwards between the mafic dykes. Underground drilling is ongoing in this area to determine the strike and dip extents of the Venus Gap quartz veins. In addition to supporting mining operations at Cordero Mine, Soma's exploration team continues to evaluate numerous small-scale mines in the vicinity of Machuca. Two out of three planned soil grids have been completed. These grids were designed to determine the continuity of gold mineralization between the informal mines along the Otú Fault. The main Machuca soil grid has delineated three soil anomalies up to 900m along strike. Follow-up prospecting along the anomalies is currently underway, and Soma expects to initiate drilling on the soil anomalies in Third Quarter 2024. Soma also continues to work with the local communities on the Machuca Property as part of its ongoing ESG program. The Otú fault system has a strike length of over 100 km, from Aris's Segovia-Remedios mines in the south to Nechi in the north (where it is buried by younger sedimentary overlap sequences). Soma's property holdings now cover more than 56km of this strike length. High-grade gold mineralization occurs along the entire strike length of the Otú Fault.