Filo Drills 473m at 1.02% CuEq in Bonita; Supports Interpretation of a Minimum 5.5km High-Grade Corridor Through the Filo Deposit
- Drillhole FSDH112 intersected 1,036.0m at 0.65% CuEq from 96.0m in the
Bonita Zone , including:- 472.5m at 1.02% CuEq from 659.5m
- Expands high-grade zone first drilled in FSDH091; possible northern continuation of Aurora
- Drillhole FSDH114 intersected 1,460.0m at 0.45% CuEq from 92.0m north of the
Bonita Zone , including:- 1,086.0m at 0.51% CuEq from 312.0m
- 210.0m at 0.66% CuEq from 750.0m
- 158.0m at 0.70% CuEq from 1,090.0m
- 26.0m at 1.22% CuEq from 1,176.0m
- Confirms Bonita Zone northern extension
Commenting on the release,
Hole ID |
From |
To |
Length (m) |
Cu % |
Au g/t |
Ag g/t |
CuEq1% |
FSDH109 |
4.0 |
10.0 |
6.0 |
0.35 |
0.44 |
1.0 |
0.68 |
plus |
110.0 |
222.5 |
112.5 |
0.47 |
0.06 |
1.2 |
0.52 |
plus |
706.0 |
728.0 |
22.0 |
0.52 |
0.08 |
1.1 |
0.59 |
FSDH112 |
96.0 |
1132.0 |
1036.0 |
0.47 |
0.17 |
5.7 |
0.65 |
incl |
96.0 |
126.0 |
30.0 |
0.29 |
0.40 |
27.1 |
0.82 |
and incl |
535.1 |
556.0 |
20.9 |
0.62 |
0.25 |
13.5 |
0.92 |
and incl |
659.5 |
1132.0 |
472.5 |
0.80 |
0.22 |
6.4 |
1.02 |
FSDH114 |
92.0 |
1552.0 |
1460.0 |
0.34 |
0.11 |
3.2 |
0.45 |
incl |
92.0 |
100.0 |
8.0 |
0.51 |
0.32 |
6.3 |
0.80 |
and incl |
202.0 |
212.0 |
10.0 |
0.80 |
0.34 |
2.3 |
1.07 |
and incl |
312.0 |
1398.0 |
1086.0 |
0.38 |
0.13 |
3.8 |
0.51 |
incl |
750.0 |
960.0 |
210.0 |
0.51 |
0.19 |
2.1 |
0.66 |
and incl |
1090.0 |
1248.0 |
158.0 |
0.54 |
0.21 |
1.9 |
0.70 |
incl |
1176.0 |
1202.0 |
26.0 |
0.97 |
0.31 |
2.8 |
1.22 |
Mineralized zones at Filo del Sol are bulk porphyry-style zones and drilled widths are interpreted to be very close to true widths. |
1 Copper Equivalent (CuEq) for drill intersections is calculated based on US$ 3.00/lb Cu, US$ 1,500/oz Au and US$ 18/oz Ag, with 80% metallurgical recoveries assumed for all metals. The formula is: CuEq % = Cu % + (0.7292 * Au g/t) + (0.0088 * Ag g/t) |
FSDH109 was collared on Section 6800N and drilled to the west at -70o, targeting the outcropping porphyry mineralization on Cerro Vicuña.
The hole intersected a late intermineral porphyry and mafic dikes which cut rhyolitic and dacitic country rocks down to 439.7m depth. High-sulphidation copper mineralization cuts the rhyolitic country rock with intense quartz-alunite alteration between 4 and 224m depth with several narrow but high-grade sections within this interval. An interval of potassic alteration, linked to mafic rocks, between 232m and 440m is weakly mineralized, averaging 0.25% CuEq. Below this, an early, quartz-dominant, potassic-altered porphyry was intercepted, characterized by fine quartz-feldspar D-type veinlets bearing low grade copper sulphides of a chalcopyrite-bornite assemblage. The hole ends at 1,227.4 meters with a late intermineral porphyry in potassic alteration. Minor high-sulphidation sulphide veins with Cu-Au mineralization were cut throughout the porphyry environment.
FSDH112 was collared on Section 10500N and drilled towards the west at an angle of -63o. This hole was suspended at a depth of 1,143.1m to be resumed when weather conditions allow, and assays down to 1,132m are reported here. The final 20m averaged 0.78% CuEq (0.70% Cu, 0.09 g/t Au, 1.5 g/t Ag) and the end of the mineralized zone has not yet been reached.
Between surface and 659.5m the hole intersected a homogeneous rhyolite interval which is cut by numerous high-sulphidation structures with copper, gold and silver. Two larger intervals of abundant structures are broken out in the table above (96.0 to 126.0m and 535.1 to 556.0m), but the interval is also cut by several smaller structures with grades of 2 – 4% CuEq over lengths of 1 – 3 metres.
A sharp increase in grade and consistency of mineralization is seen at 659.5m which is marked by a fault zone which continues to 673.1m and contains abundant pyrite and averages 1.52% CuEq (0.73% Cu, 0.42 g/t Au, 54.8 g/t Ag) over 14.5m. Below the fault, rhyolite continues to a contact with granite at 713m, and the hole entered magmatic-hydrothermal breccia at a depth of 965.1m. Grades increase slightly in the breccia, which is still being drilled at the current end of the hole.
This breccia intersection is almost 400m southwest of the +1% CuEq breccia intersection in FSDH091 (see news release dated
FSDH114 was collared on section 11400N, on the same platform as FSDH108, and drilled at an angle of -70° towards the west.
The hole intersected rhyolite down to 212m depth, where it entered a coarse granite with graphic textures in the upper part, becoming more coarse-grained down hole to 580m where a long interval of magmatic-hydrothermal breccia and intermineral porphyry dikes is intersected.
This breccia is strongly polymictic with fragments of granite basement rock, porphyry, mafic dikes and quartz veinlets. Between 580m and 1,324m, both the breccia and porphyry intervals carry high Cu-Au mineralization, represented mainly by chalcopyrite-bornite plus some covellite-enargite assemblages. From 1,346m the hole continues through a mix of granite cut by mafic dikes with lower Cu grades (0.1-0.3% Cu). It was ended in low grade granite basement rock at 1,527.7 m. The hole extends the Bonita zone by over 600m to the west of FSDH108 on section 11400N. It also reinforces the idea of higher-grade mineralization along the main porphyry-epithermal trend emplaced along the NNE Central Fault corridor, that can be traced along the entire Filo Del Sol deposit.
Hole FSDH112 supports the interpretation of a structurally-controlled corridor of high-grade mineralization which extends along the entire 5.5km minimum length of the Filo deposit.
Hole FSDH114 has confirmed and improved upon the 400m northern extension discovered by FSDH108. Drilled from the same platform as hole 108, but in the opposite direction, the distance between the two holes ranges from 0m at the collar to 660m horizontal from the bottom of hole 108, and hole 114 continued another 368m below this. Together these holes define a substantial extension to the deposit, leaving it completely open towards the north, east and west. FSDH114 is 715m northeast of FSDH091 and just under 2,000m northeast of FSDH073, suggesting that the high-grade trend described above could continue along this distance, passing just to the west of hole 114.
Drilling has been suspended for the time being due to unusually severe winter weather in the Andes and will resume as soon as conditions permit. This will allow us to ensure that the 2024 program is completed in a safe, well-organized, and cost-effective fashion. Drill progress was well ahead of schedule prior to the onset of winter, and we remain confident that the overall program metres, goals and objectives can be achieved.
On behalf of Filo,
President and CEO
Filo del Sol is a high-sulphidation epithermal copper-gold-silver deposit associated with one or more large porphyry copper-gold systems. Overlapping mineralizing events combined with weathering effects, including supergene enrichment, have created several different styles of mineralization, including structurally controlled and breccia-hosted gold, manto-style high-grade silver (+/- copper) and high-grade supergene enriched copper within a broader envelope of disseminated, stockwork and breccia-hosted sulphide copper and gold mineralization. This complex geological history has created a heterogeneous orebody which is characterized by zones of very high-grade copper +/- gold +/- silver mineralization within a large envelope of more homogeneous, lower-grade mineralization.
The scientific and technical disclosure for the
Mineralized zones within the Filo del Sol deposit are typically flat-lying, or bulk porphyry-style zones and drilled widths are interpreted to be very close to true widths.
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Copper Equivalent (CuEq) for drill intersections is calculated based on
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