VANCOUVER, BC, May 9, 2022 /CNW/ - Outcrop Silver & Gold Corporation (TSXV: OCG) (OTCQX: OCGSF) (DE: MRG1) ("Outcrop") is pleased to announce a newly identified vein at Santa Ana, Aguilar, which is up to 3.5 metres wide in outcrop. The new zone can be traced in outcrop and float for over 1,000 metres and is comprised of multiple parallel vein structures showing values up to 1,915 g Ag/t and 16.9 g Au/t at surface. Aguilar is 3,000 metres southwest of the Espiritu target on a newly drill permitted title. Including Aguilar, the vein systems at Santa Ana have been mapped and sampled for a continuous 12 kilometres in length.
Map 1. The Aguilar vein can be traced for 1,000 metres in outcrop and float (CNW Group/Outcrop Silver & Gold Corporation)
Map 2. Twelve kilometres of mapped vein zones at Santa Ana permitted for drilling. (CNW Group/Outcrop Silver & Gold Corporation)
Figure 1. Cross section showing multiple stacked veins in La Isabela. (CNW Group/Outcrop Silver & Gold Corporation)
Figure 1. Cross section showing multiple stacked veins in La Isabela. (CNW Group/Outcrop Silver & Gold Corporation)
Figure 2. Drilling along the El Dorado vein shows mineralization occurring within a zone 950 metres long. One drill-hole in the Figueroa target 420 metres north La Abeja may represent near continuous mineralization between the two or a newly discovered shoot. (CNW Group/Outcrop Silver & Gold Corporation)
Map 3. Location of Santa Ana shoots and potential resource areas. Aguilar vein is 3,000 metres south of Espiritu Santo. (CNW Group/Outcrop Silver & Gold Corporation)
Additional high-grade drill intercepts have also been drilled in La Isabela shoot and along El Dorado and Espiritu Santo veins. A high-grade intercept in the El Dorado vein is located 420 metres north of the recently announced La Abeja shoot and may represent another shoot in the northern El Dorado vein.
Highlights
The Aguilar vein, identified in April shows local widths up to 3.5 metres at surface, with values in outcrop and float up to 1,915 g Ag/t and 16.9 g Au/t. Aguilar is 3,000 metres south of the Espiritu target on a newly drill permitted title.
Current drilling has defined La Isabela shoot 150 metres along the surface and 90 metres at depth. Additional drilling is planned to define La Isabela at depth.
La Isabela is comprised of three or more stacked vein segments, each of which may contribute to potential resource areas.
Current drilling along El Dorado vein confirms high-grade mineralization 420 metres north of the recently discovered La Abeja shoot.
The Espiritu target returned 0.72 metres true thickness of 597 grams silver equivalent per tonne and may contain a new shoot.
"We are excited to continue to identify additional new high-grade veins at Santa Ana's district scale property," states Joseph Hebert, Chief Executive Officer. "New veins and expanding shoots continue to add to the potential resource areas which will be incorporated into the maiden resource planned for completion by the end of 2022."
Aguilar Vein Target
Reconnaissance mapping and sampling identified the new Aguilar vein, located 3,000 metres south of the Espiritu target on a newly drill permitted title. Aguilar can be traced for 1,000 metres and is locally 3.5 metres wide in outcrop and 4.0 metres wide in related float boulders. Locally multiple parallel vein segments are observed. Mapping suggests higher grade mineralization occurs at flexures within the dominant northeast trend of the veins. These flexures are interpreted to represent structural intersections between northerly trending faults and northwest trending lineaments that may focus drill testing. The Aguilar Vein may represent part of a 3.8-kilometre vein zone, continuous with the Espiritu Santo and Mina Cristo target areas to the north. Eight of seventeen significantly anomalous prospecting samples shown in Table 2 have values greater than 1 kilogram silver equivalent per tonne with a high of 2,935 grams silver equivalent per tonne. El Guadual (inset on Map 1 and shown on Map 2) probably represents a direct continuation of Aguilar to Espiritu. Samples from El Guadual are pending.
Sample No
Type
Lithology
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Pb %
Zn %
AgEq g/t
RX5805
Float
Quartz Vein
10.14
386
0.07
0.02
1,129
RX5806
Float
Quartz Vein
2.92
343
0.07
0.03
559
RX5808
Float
Quartz Vein
16.87
1,703
0.03
0.07
2,939
RX5810
Float
Quartz Vein
1.58
234
0.01
0.00
349
RX5811
Float
Quartz Vein
6.46
772
0.03
0.05
1,246
RX5812
Float
Quartz Vein
13.07
1,915
0.09
0.10
2,875
RX5630
Float
Quartz Vein
5.74
1,020
0.28
0.01
1,447
RX5644
Outcrop
Quartz Vein
1.57
349
0.09
0.01
466
RX5645
Outcrop
Quartz Vein
1.14
441
0.10
0.03
527
RX5646
Float
Quartz Vein
0.96
312
0.11
0.01
385
RX5648
Outcrop
Quartz Vein
0.80
122
0.10
0.01
183
RX5649
Outcrop
Shear Zone
1.38
104
0.14
0.01
208
RX5653
Float
Quartz Vein
5.98
1,282
0.39
0.08
1,730
RX5654
Outcrop
Quartz Vein
5.64
1,045
0.18
0.10
1,464
RX5813
Float
Quartz Vein
4.24
246
0.07
0.51
572
RX5814
Float
Quartz Vein
4.46
1,050
0.16
0.04
1,380
RX5822
Float
Quartz Vein
4.73
581
0.05
0.01
928
Table 1. Significant rock chips samples on the new Aguilar vein.
La Isabela
Drilling at La Isabela shows that the shoot is comprised of multiple parallel stacked vein splays or vein segments. Each segment has the potential to contribute to the planned maiden resource. Preliminary drilling indicates that the stacked vein group at La Isabela extends 150 metres along strike and 90 metres at depth. Additional drilling is planned to delineate the dimensions of the shoot and define individual vein segments and splays.
Espiritu Santo Vein
Espiritu Santo vein is 1.1 kilometres south of the San Antonio shoot which is a part of the Santa Ana vein system. While the Santa Ana veins trend north-northeast, Espiritu Santo, like La Isabela, trends northeast. Drillhole 220 confirms continuity from high-grade float boulders at surface to 0.74 metres at 597 grams equivalent silver per tonne 50 metres down-dip from the surface projection of the vein. Espiritu Santo represents a significantly untested target for a new shoot.
El Dorado and Abeja
Continued drilling indicates several shoots remain open at depth and occur along a 950-metre section of the Dorado Vein. These shoots include El Dorado and La Abeja. 420 metres north of La Abeja a narrow intercept containing 0.3 metres at 2,762 grams extends significant mineralization into the Figueroa target. Mineralization for Abeja and Figueroa is open at depth and represents a significant area of potential resource.
Target
Hole ID
From (m)
To (m)
Width (m)
True Thickness (m)
g Au/t
g Ag/t
% Pb
% Zn
g/t AuEq
g/t AgEq
La Isabela
SALI22DH202
68.88
70.10
1.22
1.15
1.09
527
0.13
0.01
8.34
609
La Isabela
SALI22DH204
69.48
69.78
0.30
0.23
13.73
208
0.08
0.08
16.63
1,216
La Isabela
SALI22DH204
106.15
106.8
0.65
0.50
1.39
271
0.15
0.13
5.20
380
La Isabela
SALI22DH209
49.63
49.93
0.30
0.27
11.87
2,090
0.60
0.52
40.86
2,986
La Isabela
SALI22DH209
61.07
61.42
0.35
0.31
3.87
954
0.41
0.11
17.09
1,249
Espiritu Santo
SAES22DH220
145.87
146.61
0.74
0.72
2.92
352
0.37
0.82
8.17
597
La Abeja
SAED22DH203
162.10
164.32
2.22
1.52
9.74
2,014
1.34
1.18
38.18
2,790
La Abeja
SAED22DH225
60.23
60.53
0.30
0.25
5.18
2,312
0.81
1.85
37.79
2,762
Metal prices used for equivalent calculations were $1,850/oz for gold, $25/oz for silver, $0.97/lb for lead and $1.09/lb for zinc. SAL122DH202 and SAED22DH203 were previously reported.
Table 2. Significant vein intercepts in La Isabela, La Abeja and Espiritu Santo.
Hole ID
Easting
Northing
Elevation (m)
Depth (m)
Azimuth
Dip
Target/Shoot
SALI22DH204
504852.12
563935.28
971.56
116.43
155
-72
La Isabela
SALI22DH209
504732.36
563851.50
952.25
146.60
105
-45
La Isabela
SAES22DH220
506081.53
564122.34
879.54
170.38
93
-45
Espiritu Santo
SAED22DH225
505916.90
567774.38
925.00
151.18
120
-67
El Dorado
Table 3. Collar and survey table for holes reported in this release.
QA/QC
Core samples are sent to either Actlabs in Medellin or ALS Chemex in Medellin for preparation and then to ALS Chemex in Toronto or Lima, Peru for analysis. In line with QA/QC best practice, approximately three control samples are inserted per twenty samples (one blank, one standard and one field duplicate). The samples are analysed for gold using standard fire-assay on a 50-gram sample with a gravimetric finish. Multi-element geochemistry is determined by ICP-MS using either aqua regia (ME-MS41) or four acid (ME-MS61) digestion. Comparison to control samples and their standard deviations indicates acceptable accuracy of the assays and no detectible contamination.
About Santa Ana
The 100% owned Santa Ana project comprises 36,000 hectares located in northern Tolima Department, Colombia, 190 kilometres from Bogota. The project consists of five or more regional scale parallel vein systems across a trend 12 kilometres wide and 30 kilometres long. The Santa Ana project covers a significant part of the Mariquita District where mining records date to at least 1585. The Mariquita District is the highest-grade primary silver district in Colombia, with historic silver grades reported to be among the highest in Latin America from dozens of mines. Historic mining depths support a geologic and exploration model for composite mesothermal and epithermal vein systems having mineralization that likely extends to great depth. At Santa Ana it is unlikely that there is sharp elevation restriction common to high-grade zones in many epithermal systems with no mesozonal component.
At the core Royal Santa Ana project, located at the northern extent of just one of the regional vein systems controlled by Outcrop, ten high grade shoots have been discovered – La Ivana hanging-wall and footwall (La Porfia vein system); San Antonio, Roberto Tovar, San Juan (Royal Santa Ana vein systems); El Dorado, La Abeja (El Dorado vein systems), Megapozo, Paraiso (El Paraiso vein system) and La Isabela. Each zone commonly contains multiple parallel veins. The veins can show both high-grade silver and high-grade gold mineralization and low angle veins appear to connect more common high angle veins.
Outcrop drilling indicates that mineralization extends from surface or near surface to depths of at least 300 metres. Cumulatively, over 60 kilometres of mapped and inferred vein zones occur on the Santa Ana project. The Frias Mine on the south-central part of the project, 16 kilometres south of the Royal Santa Ana Mines produced 7.8 million ounces of silver post-production in the Spanish colonial era at a recovered grade of 1.3 kg Ag/t. The Frias Mine is considered an analogue to each of the ten shoots discovered to date by Outcrop. Between the Royal Santa Ana Mines and towards the Frias Mine, veins have been extended to the south providing strong drill targets in the Aguilar, Espiritu Santo, Maras, and El Christo veins that show high values up to 5.5 kg AgEq/t. These veins show widths up to 2.8 to 4.0 metres. In total 12 kilometres of vein zones have been mapped between El Dorado vein to the north and the Aguilar vein to the southeast.
About Outcrop
Outcrop is rapidly advancing exploration on five silver and gold exploration projects with world-class discovery potential in Colombia. Outcrop is currently drilling and expanding the Santa Ana historic high-grade silver district. These assets are being advanced by a highly disciplined and seasoned professional team with decades of experience in Colombia.
Qualified Person
The technical information in this news release has been approved by Joseph P Hebert, a qualified person as defined in NI43-101 and President and Chief Executive Officer of Outcrop.
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