Hey Brother, if it's okay I'll have a go at answering this on the run as I'm tight for time sorry... Needless to say most of the commentary today appeared to have missed a key point..
Firstly Cuba is part of the Greater Antilles and by way of tectonic association is orientated to the North West, ergo it's no surprise that mineral prospects are also related to South East / North West striking systems. Most of the area is exactly the same..
Late Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary sequences of the La Mine Series in the Massif du Nord (Fig. 3A). The principal mineralization is a 3km long
northwest trending stockwork vein system consisting of steeply dipping fault strands varying in width from a few meters to 100m wide (Louca, 1990). Polymetallic (Cu, Pb, Zn, Au, Ag) sulfide mineralization, confirmed by trenching, is associated with barite and with barite-sulfide replacements that, locally, cut across the argillically altered fault zone
Copper-gold mineralisation at Cuba is hosted by a fine grained, early mineral (?) intrusion ofdiorite composition that displays remnants of potassic, calc-potassic and chlorite-magnetitealteration with well-developed disseminated chalcopyrite. Copper grades frequently exceed1% when well-preserved, with pXRF values of up to 2.5% Cu in areas of well-developed finelydisseminated chalcopyrite.• Observations from drill core indicate that much of this early formed mineralisation has beenoverprinted by a sericite – pyrite – carbonate assemblage that has largely replaced the early-formed chalcopyrite with pyrite, with a concomitant decrease in copper grade. This alterationoverprint is likely structurally controlled and reaches vertical depths in excess of 200m.• High grade copper mineralisation has been observed in drill core over a strike length of 450mwithin an IP chargeability feature ~1200m long. This mineralisation appears to be open alongstrike both to the WNW and ESE and is also open at depth.
Total potential resources? Who knows? But th earea is laregly unexploited for various reasons and hence riches lie beneath of that we can be reasonably confident..
Currently, the mineral endowment (past production plus known resources) of the Greater Antilles totals 36 million ounces (Moz) gold, 277Moz silver, 7 million metric tonnes (Mt) copper, 1Mt lead, 3Mt zinc, 14Mt nickel, 1Mt cobalt, 2Mt chromium, 3.5Mt manganese, and 706Mt aluminium
And I know this lit a few up today but did anyone have a good look & in doing so ask the question why the results were the way they were?
This was the pre assay interpretation..
And this was what dropped today..
I seem to doubt it.. Have a look at the depiction below and tell me which direction PDH-001 &001A have been drilled in?
Then tell me what direction the other holes have been drilled in? I'll give you a hint it starts at the red collar..
PDH-001 & 001A are the only holes drilled 180 degrees opposite toward s the South East and I'd say that was to test the southern boundary of the system perhaps?
So I'm almost surprised they hit anything at all considering what we know of the resource orientation..
PDH-001 was only 33m deep and in that depth it recorded 20m of gold at 2,87gt,, Including 3m at 13.81gt just 10m down.. !!
PDH-001A went the full distance of 290m
Whilst the copper content recorded the following figures from an area that appears largely outside of the traditional footprint and down strike!!
Hence our head Geo had this to say...
Antilles Gold’s Exploration Director, Dr Christian Grainger, commented that the assays from the oxide deposit
were consistent with the results from 24,000m of historic drilling that were the basis for the Exploration
Target Range reported to ASX on 5 July 2022.
The virtually continuous copper grades in holes PHD-001A and PDH-002, shown in Table 3 (Raw Data), below
the enriched gold domain, are associated with secondary chalcocite that is an easily leachable copper oxide
mineral and is 80 weight percent copper in nature.Notably, only chalcopyrite and bornite have been identified in the fresh rock sulphide mineralization below the
oxide mineralized zones with a lack of arsenic bearing sulphides indicating a very clean concentrate will be
able to be created.
A gold oxide zone of +2 g/t Au, with an additional lower oxide zone of leached copper of +0.5% Cu, is seen
as extremely positive for early mine development and cash flow generation.
The preparation for the upcoming detailed ground geophysical program of both I.P. (induced polarization)
and magnetics, is on track and the 3km x 2km geophysical grid will guide the upcoming drilling campaign to
target the concealed sulphide porphyry copper-gold mineralization,
that is the source of the El Pilar oxide
copper-gold mineralization.Additionally,
extensions to the surface oxide copper-gold mineralization, or additional new zones, are highly
probable.Basically he's seen enough... I can only encourage others to maybe have another look and ask why? And while you're at it why don't we ask the main question that came out od today... Why is hole two going to be released with 3 & 4?? ;-)
[Gold assays from hole PDH-002 will be included with assays from holes PDH-003 and PDH-004 when released].I have know idea (other than to suggest it may have been a waste?) but that would merely be speculating if I did...
SO GLTAH and hopefully we'll get to do this all again soon.. H8tey
(20min delay)