Vancouver — A surface sampling program by IMA Exploration (IMR-V) has extended the high-grade gold mineralization at the promising Cerro Tablon showing on the 90-sq.-km Tabaconas property in northwestern Peru.
The junior recently located the source of a 400-metre-wide train of gold-rich massive-sulphide boulders at Cerro Tablon.
The latest surface results have outlined high-grade gold mineralization over an area measuring 600 metres by 200 metres. Within this zone, samples from a newly discovered outcrop hosting massive-to-semi-massive sulphides returned 27.2 grams gold over 8.6 metres. Included in this interval was a bonanza-grade section running 147.1 grams gold over 0.8 metre.
Evaluating the eastern extension of the target, 62 soil samples averaged greater than 1 gram gold. Several yielded an impressive 2-18 grams gold. Geophyscial surveys confirm that the zone extends to the east.
Earlier in the year, IMA collected 112 rock-chip samples from the new prospect. They returned an average grade of 3.59 grams gold per tonne.
Soil-sampling over the area returned an average of 89 parts-per-billion gold over a zone measuring 500 metres by 200 metres. Down-slope from this zone, 15 additional soil samples averaged 1.2 grams gold over an area measuring 200 metres by 200 metres.
Mineralization is reportedly related to an alteration zone in limestones which are near an intrusive contact.
The target is expected to be drill-tested in September.
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