New Pacific Commences Drilling at the Silverstrike Project, Bolivia
New Pacific Metals Corp. (NYSE American: NEWP) has initiated a 6,000-metre drilling program at its Silverstrike Project in Bolivia, focusing on a gold zone revealed through previous drilling. The Silverstrike Project spans 13 km², with New Pacific holding a 98% interest. Notable historical results include 4.7 m grading 14.76 g/t Au and 27 g/t Ag. The company plans to fund all future exploration and mining costs. The project is strategically significant due to its proximity to other assets and potential resource growth.
- Initiation of a 6,000-metre drilling program at Silverstrike Project.
- 98% interest in the Silverstrike Project.
- Historical results include 4.7 m grading 14.76 g/t Au and 27 g/t Ag.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - New Pacific Metals Corp. ("New Pacific" or the "Company") (TSX: NUAG) (NYSE American: NEWP) is pleased to announce that a 6,000-metre ("m"), one rig drilling program has commenced at the Silverstrike Project. The program will initially focus on testing a broad gold zone identified by the Company and by historical drilling.
The Silverstrike Project with an area of approximately 13km² is located approximately 140 kilometres ("km") southwest of La Paz, Bolivia, or approximately 450 km northwest of New Pacific's Silver Sand Project. The Company has
In the previous news releases (September 29, and November 19, 2020), the Company identified near-surface broad-zones of silver mineralization in altered sandstones to the North, with similarities to that at Silver Sand; and in the Silverstrike Central area, a near surface broad Silver zone that occurs near the top of a 900 m diameter volcanic dome of ignimbrite (volcaniclastic sediments) units with intrusion of rhyolite dyke swarm and andesite flows; and a broad gold zone occurs half way from the top of the dome.
Gold-rich mineralization at Cerro Tatitu Kkollu occurs adjacent to the contact zones between the ignimbrites and the rhyolite dyke swarm.
A total of 277 channel chip samples were collected over three key outcropping areas, the best results were 4.7 m grading 14.76 g/t Au and 27 g/t Ag from a historical mining adit; 42m @ 1.02g/t Au and18g/t Ag, and 10m @ 1.45g/t and14g/t Ag.
A single dump grab sample collected from a historic exploration adit returned 1.66g/t Au, 154g/t Ag, and
Three holes Drilled by Rio Tinto in 1995 on the gold zone returning broad intervals of Au mineralization from surface:
Hole BER-02 – 302m grading 0.27 g/t Au, including 42m grading 0.52g/t Au.
Hole BRC-04 – 110m grading 0.46 g/t Au, including 22m grading 1.42 g/t Au.
Hole BRC-12 – 258m grading 0.19 g/t Au.
Based on the Company's field mapping, chipping sample and limited historical drilling results, the Company interprets the gold zone as very similar to the gold discovery in the Carangas Project that the silver rich zone sits at the top of the system stacking on top of the gold mineralization in volcaniclastic sediments that intruded by rhyolitic porphyry dyke swarms.
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release have been reviewed and approved by Alex Zhang, P. Geo., Vice President of Exploration, who is a Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 — Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"). The Qualified Person has verified the information disclosed herein, including the sampling, preparation, security and analytical procedures underlying such information, and is not aware of any significant risks and uncertainties that could be expected to affect the reliability or confidence in the information discussed herein.
New Pacific is a Canadian mining company exploring and developing the silver and gold deposits in Bolivia. Its flagship Silver Sand Project is a large pure silver deposit amenable to open pit & heap leach operation. The newly discovered Carangas gold-silver Project is an extensive historical silver digging site with a thick gold zone discovered underneath. The Silverstrike Project is another extensive historical silver digging site at surface to be drilled.
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