Drilling30 Apr 2019 10:17
18 February 2019
Alien Metals Ltd (“Alien� or “the Company�)
Mexico Exploration Update and 2019 Work Programme
Alien Metals Limited, the AIM quoted mining exploration and development company, is pleased to announce an exploration update for its twelve wholly owned silver concessions in Zacatecas State, Mexico and details of its planned 2019 exploration programme. Within this portfolio are the Donovan 2 concession, which lies within close proximity of the San Nicolas copper zinc deposit, and the San Celso concession which consists of high-grade, low sulfidation epithermal veins.
Further to the Company’s announcement of 26 September 2018, the Company undertook a comprehensive review of the asset portfolio in September 2018 which then prompted further prospecting and field mapping campaigns over the entire 1,500 hectare concession area in November and December 2018, as further detailed below.
Following this, the Company has now concluded that it believes the portfolio, held through its wholly owned subsidiary Compañia Minera Estrella de Plata SA de CV (“CMEP�), remains prospective and Alien will continue to discharge its obligations to the Mexican DGM (“Mines General Directorate�).
The projects which the Company will initially prioritise in 2019 are:
Donovan 2: The project lies within close proximity of the San Nicolas copper zinc deposit, operated by Teck Resources Limited. A tranche of ground magnetic and induced polarisation (“IP�) geophysics to investigate a regional magnetic anomaly has been completed. Field mapping and sampling identified the presence of pathfinder minerals, including anomalous values of copper and zinc which are consistent with the presence of volcanogenic massive sulphide (“VMS�) mineralisation.
The geophysics programme comprised of 52.4 line-kilometres of magnetics and 2.6 line-kilometres of IP which highlighted several areas of interest. This initial programme is now being followed up with detailed trenching and mapping, which is intended to further test for alteration and mineralisation and to build confidence for the presence of a VMS system. The Company expects to complete this phase of exploration work in Q2 2019 and will announce the results when available.