お知らせ • Apr 10
Challenger Gold Limited Doubles Ecuador Resource to 9.11 Million Ongoing Gold Equivalent
Challenger Gold Limited announced the Mineral Resource Estimate (‘MRE’) at CEL's Ecuador projects has increased from 4.5 to 9.1 million ounces gold equivalent1. The combined 9.1 Moz MRE at El Guayabo (CEL 100%) and Colorado V (CEL 50%) comprises 570.3 mt at 0.50 g/t AuEq (0.36 g/t Au, 2.2 g/t Ag, 0.07% Cu, 9.7 ppm Mo) for 9.1 Moz AuEq. This 9.1 Moz MRE includes; a total maiden MRE of 4.4 million ounces gold equivalent1 at a grade of 0.50 g.t AuE Q1,2 (0.35 g/t Au, 2.2 g/t Ag, 0.08% Cu,14.3 ppm Mo) for the Colorado V Project (CEL 50%); and an updated MRE of 4.7 million ounces gold equivalent1 at 0.50 g/t AuE First Quarter (0.38 g/t Au, 2.3 g/t Ag, 0.06% Cu,7.5 ppm Mo) at the adjoining 100% owned El Guayabo Project. The Company has now earned an initial 50% interest in the Colorado V Project. Net attributable resources to CEL across both projects are 6.9 Moz AuE First Quarter - 431 mt at 0.50 g/t AuE Q1,2 (0.37 g/t Au, 2.3 g/t Ag, 0.07% Cu, 10 ppm Mo). The 9.1 Moz MRE is based on drilling five of the fifteen regionally significant Au-Cu soil anomalies identified across the project. All 13 Au-Cu soil anomalies drilled to date have returned significant mineralisation. At Colorado V, the maiden MRE is based on drilling over the CV-A anomaly and the southern portion of CV-B. Mineralisation remains open in both directions along strike and at depth at both CV-A and CV-B. Results on the northern half of the CV-B anomaly include 504.3m at 0.3 g/t AuEq including 276.1m at 0.4 g/t AuEq and 116.1m at 0.5 g/t AuEq however, the drill density was insufficient to allow the reporting of an MRE in accordance with the JORC Code in the northern half of CV-B. The updated El Guayabo resource included four additional drillholes for 2594 metres and an additional 3058 metres of underground and surface channel sampling that was completed after the previous MRE cut-off date. The El Guayabo MRE includes the GY-A, GY-B, and GY-C anomalies on the Company's 100% owned El Guayabo concession. Mineralisation remains open in both directions along strike and at depth on all five anomalies where drilling has been of sufficient density to allow the reporting of an MRE. There is clear potential for significant growth in the MRE, not only via additional drilling on these five anomalies, but also across the remaining 10 mineralised anomalies that have yet to be tested by resource drilling. There is a discrete higher-grade component to the resource. This higher-grade component of the MRE comprises (see table 2 Grade Tonnage data): 2.1 Moz at 1.0 g/t AuE Q1,2 - 65.7 Mt at 0.8 g/t Au, 3.4 g/t Ag, 0.11% Cu, 9.4ppm Mo (0.70 g/t AuEq cut-off); 1.2 Moz at 1.2 g/t AuE Q1,2 - 31.7 Mt at 1.0 g/t Au, 4.1 g/t Ag, 0.13% Cu, 7.3ppm Mo (0.85 g/t AuEq cut-off); 0.8 Moz at 1.4 g/t AuE Q1,2 - 17.7 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au, 4.8 g/t Ag, 0.17% Cu, 6.9ppm Mo (1.0 g/t AuEq cut-off). The El Guayabo Project comprises 3609 Ha (36.1 km2) of Exploitation (mining) Licenses valid until 2028 with an automatic 20-year renewal. These mining licenses are held via a combination of outright ownership, farmin agreements and options to acquire as outlined below. The current 9.1 Moz Gold Equivalent is located almost across the Company's 100% owned El Guayabo concession, the Cerro Pelado concession where CEL has the option to acquire 100%, and the Colorado V concession where CEL has earned an initial 50% interest in the MRE. El Guayabo concession (257 Ha) - 100% owned; Cerro Pelado concessions (61 Ha) - option to acquire 100%; El Guayabo 2 concession (957 Ha) - earning 80% with option to move to 100%; Colorado V concession (2331 Ha) - earned an initial 50% interest. The completion of the maiden MRE at Colorado V completes CEL's requirements under the farmin to earn a 50% Interest in the MRE. CEL and the current owner will then jointly fund a Definitive Feasibility Study and ongoing development. Colorado V and El Guayabo are located within the El Oro Province of southern Ecuador, 35 Kilometers southeast of the port city of Machala, Ecuador´s fourth largest city and the capital of El Oro Province. Machala city lies on the Pan-American Highway linking Guayaquil to Lima in Peru. The port of Puerto Bolivar, a deepwater commercial port, is located 9 km to the west of Machala. The projects are coastal at an elevation of less than 1000 metres and are covered by a mix of pasture with some secondary regrowth forest. Exploration conditions are excellent with field exploration possible all year round as is exploration drilling 24 hours a day. The projects have power, water and internet coverage to site. The project geology comprises a metamorphic basement (El Oro Metamorphic Complex) of Cretaceous age intruded by nested intermediate alkaline intrusives which are Tertiary in age from 40 - 10 Ma (million years). The nested intrusions are commonly intruded by later mineralized intrusions, porphyry dykes and intrusive breccias of late Oligocene to Miocene age, suggesting deeper, evolving magmatic systems are feeding shallower systems. The Project contains a ‘Low Sulphide’ porphyry gold copper system. The Au-Ag-Cu-Mo mineralisation in the El Guayabo concession is associated with mineralized diorite intrusions exhibiting local porphyry stock work veining and associated intrusive breccias that are structurally controlled on a dominant NE/SW trend and many times on the intersection of NW/SE secondary trend. The Colorado V concession which is approximately 750 metres deeper in the system is a high-level porphyry intrusive and intrusive-related breccia complex with mineralisation controlled by regional scale and local scale fault-fracture zones, breccia zones and lithology contacts. Soil geochemistry conducted by the Company produced 15 regionally significant Au-Cu soil anomalies across the Colorado V and El Guayabo concessions. Exploration drilling on 13 of the soil anomalies has been completed with all holes intersecting mineralisation.