Vancouver – Equal partners Southwestern Resources (SWG-T) and Inco (N-T) have launched a 1,000-metre drill program over the Intihuatana base metal property some 410 km northwest of Arequipa in southern Peru.
Over the past four months the partners have completed detailed mapping, rock chip sampling and ground geophysics over Intihuatana, which is one of four properties that make up the 287-sq-km Bambas West project.
Two extensive copper-gold skarn systems centered around high-level diorite intrusions have been identified on the property. The copper-gold skarns contain both massive and disseminated magnetite. Geophysical surveys outlined four anomalies associated with outcropping copper-gold mineralized zones. The largest of these zones has a strike length of 1.1 km. Rock chip samples collected from the main exposed skarn, which measures 300-by-100 metres, returned from 0.4- to-11% copper.
The initial drill program will test the geophysical anomalies between 100-to-250 metres below surface.
Inco is funding the program as part of the joint-venture agreement, calling for the major to spend US$1 million on the project.
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