RE: Valore update26 Apr 2021 13:12
Esbarro NW 2021 Exploration: Soil, Trado® and Channel Sampling
2021 soil sampling from the Esbarro NW target area delineated a 600 m-long PGE-in-soils anomaly extending to the northwest from the Esbarro pit-constrained resource area (9.9 Mt grading 1.23 g/t 2PGE+Au, totaling 394,000 ounces). During this sampling campaign, a 6.5 m-deep historical test pit was encountered approximately 200 m north of the western-most resource area. The test pit was previously not known to ValOre’s team, as it was not catalogued in the historical Pedra Branca database.
A vertical channel sample was performed from surface to the bottom of pit (6.5 m depth), with altered ultramafic rocks intercepted throughout. Assay results for the channel sample returned a high-grade PGE interval from surface of 6.5 m grading 2.17 g/t 2PGE+Au, including 2.0 m grading 5.19 g/t 2PGE+Au from 4.50 m. The highest-grade sample (7.44 g/t 2PGE+Au) was collected from the pit bottom, and thus the high-grade in-situ PGE mineralization remains fully open at depth and along strike in all directions.
A 19-hole Trado® auger follow-up program was conducted within the 600 m PGE-in-soils anomaly extending from the Esbarro resource area. 17 of 19 Trado® auger holes intercepted PGE-bearing ultramafic or ultramafic-derived rocks, suggesting near-surface geological continuity of the mineralized host intrusion. Assay highlights include Trado® holes AD21ES03, which returned 12.0 m grading 1.73 g/t 2PGE+Au from surface, incl. 2.0 m grading 2.90 g/t from surface and 2.0 m grading 3.36 g/t from 8.0 m, and Trado® hole AD21ES08 which returned 9.0 m grading 2.09 g/t 2PGE+Au from surface.
See Table 1 below for a summary of significant channel sample and Trado® PGE assay intervals, CLICK HERE for Figure 1, showing a map of the Esbarro NW target, CLICK HERE for Figure 2, showing a map of the results reported herein, and CLICK HERE for Figure 3 showing a fence diagram of the high-grade channel sample and proximal Trado® auger holes.