IVR is of the view that the Peterlumbo field may have certain similarities to Fresnillo one of the world’s largest silver mines located in Mexico. What are these similarities and do you think that there is any chance the deposit could be as big?
MD John Anderson
The similarity is the regional setting where the silver deposits at both fields were formed beneath a volcanic pile in the country rock just under the original land surface (“palaeosurface”). About 450 years ago, the Spaniards discovered and initially mined the shallowest manto mineralization but the deeper feeders continue to be discovered and are collectively mined as the largest silver mine today. Investigator believes Paris is at the centre of a similar sized field with the opportunity for deeper feeders and possibly other styles of silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper deposits."
