Alder gets the results that put the shine back on Rosita

The latest assays from Alder Resources’ (ALR-V) Rosita copper-gold-silver project in Nicaragua shows the company could well be on its way towards getting the site back into production.

The assay results come out of the last six holes in the first phase of diamond drilling and were highlighted by an assay of 10 metres grading 1.42% copper, 0.18 grams per tonne gold and 20.45 grams silver.

That high grade intercept came within a wider interval that graded 0.50% copper, 0.08 grams gold and 6.44 grams silver over 53 metres.

Mineralization was struck roughly 120 metres below the base of the historic Rosita Pit in an area that is known as Santa Rita. Alder says mineralization is hosted in skarn and that the recent intercepts lie below the central part of the pit.

The average intercept width of the higher grade intercepts is 10.3 metres and together they define a strike length of 250 metres, and occur over a vertical range of roughly 150 metres.

When combined with other results released earlier from the same drill program the company has traced mineralization over a strike of 1,100 metres and to a vertical depth of 200 metres.

Rosita also has a stockpile resource of 7.95 million tonnes grading 0.62% copper, 0.46 grams gold and 9.20 grams silver and Alder says the material could serve as a source of low cost mill feed.

But Santa Rita didn’t hold the totality of the prospective results. Roughly 4-km northwest of Rosita at the Bambana prospect Alder put two holes in the ground and the core came back with intercepts of 13 metres grading 1.23% copper, 0.36 grams gold and 10.63 grams silver and 18 metres grading 1.74% copper, 0.09 grams gold and 16.65 grams silver.

In the case of both holes mineralization began at surface and is localized in variably oxidized and clay-weathered potassium feldspar-quartz altered andesitic volcanics and diorite containing copper oxides and minor sulphides.

The first phase of diamond drilling was made up of 20 holes covering 5,908.5 metres. A full 18 of those holes were collared in the Santa Rita area with the final two going into Bambana.

Alder says that all of the holes intersected varying levels of copper, gold and silver mineralization.

The company is putting more capital into Bambana as it is now doing geologic mapping, soil sampling and running a trenching program to test several high quality IP geophysical anomalies, and high grade copper-gold bearing grab samples from the highly prospective Bambana

Past trenching at the zone returned 3.32% copper, 0.22 grams gold and 37.55 grams silver over 12 metres. Alder says the zone appears to be related to porphyry-style mineralization.

Alder signed an option agreement with Calibre Mining (CXB-V) in August of last year that allows it to earn a 65% interest in the 33.56 sq km Rosita D concession, which sits within Calibre’s wholly owned Borosi concessions.

To move up to that interest Alder has to spend $4 million on exploration issue and 1 million of its shares to Calibre over four years.