Gatos Silver Commences Drilling at Its 100% Owned Santa Valeria Project
Gatos Silver, Inc. (GATO) has begun drilling at its wholly owned Santa Valeria project in southern Chihuahua, Mexico. This project is strategically located near the Los Gatos District’s mineral concession block and is expected to explore its silver potential. An 18-hole, 5,400-meter drilling campaign aims to test key targets identified in previous studies. Gatos Silver has a solid track record in the area, with its Cerro Los Gatos deposit projected to produce 12.2 million silver equivalent ounces annually. The company's CEO emphasizes the significance of this drill campaign in expanding its mineral asset base.
- Drilling commenced at the Santa Valeria project, expanding Gatos Silver's exploration.
- The Santa Valeria project is near the productive Los Gatos District, indicating potential mineralization.
- The planned 18-hole, 5,400-meter drill campaign targets previously identified silver-bearing zones.
- Cerro Los Gatos is projected to produce 12.2 million silver equivalent ounces annually.
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Gatos Silver, Inc. (NYSE/TSX: GATO) (“Gatos Silver” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce drilling has commenced at its Santa Valeria project.
Santa Valeria Location Map (Graphic: Business Wire)
The Santa Valeria project, located in southern Chihuahua, Mexico, is five kilometers east of the Los Gatos Joint Venture’s 103,000-hectare Los Gatos District mineral concession block. Gatos Silver owns
Stephen Orr, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, stated “The commencement of drilling at our wholly owned Santa Valeria project represents the achievement of another strategic milestone to broaden Gatos Silver’s mineral asset base. Santa Valeria is believed to be a basin-bounding, geologic mirror of Cerro Los Gatos and we are excited to initiate this drill campaign to explore the mineral potential on the eastern half of this prolific basin. The Santa Valeria campaign represents the Company’s first substantive work outside the Los Gatos District in over seven years. Given the extensive geologic understanding accumulated over the past decade at Cerro Los Gatos, we are eager to deploy this substantial knowledge to advance exploration at Santa Valeria.”
About Gatos Silver
Gatos Silver is a silver dominant exploration, development and production company that discovered a new silver and zinc-rich mineral district in southern Chihuahua State, Mexico. To-date, 14 zones of mineralization have been defined within the district and all are characterized by silver-zinc-lead epithermal mineralization. More than
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