Surface mapping and sampling by Tesoro Gold Limited (ASX: TSO) confirmed continuous gold anomalism within a highly prospective fault corridor of >10km at its El Zorro project, and open to the north and south.
The latest trend estimate follows sampling at the Kitsune and Calderillas targets, north of the Ternera gold deposit.
Channel sampling results at Kitsune included 6.00m @ 4.14g/t Au, within 18.00m @ 1.59g/t Au; while those at Calderillas included 2.00m @ 15.90g/t Au.
Tesoro has defined a >500m wide prospective corridor at Kitsune, where ongoing drilling is testing an area with a surface gold footprint more than twice the size of the existing Ternera Mineral Resource.
Meanwhile, Tesoro discovered a new, high-grade extension to mineralisation south of the Ternera deposit.
The best result outside the area corresponding to Ternera’s MRE was 7.80m @ 2.78g/t Au from 16m, and was part of a program testing the interpreted location of the Dorado Fault Zone (DFZ), a primary control on gold mineralisation at Ternera.
Tesoro believes drilling since January demonstrates that gold mineralisation is continuous within the DFZ and associated structures across all lithologies, providing significant potential for Mineral Resource expansion at Ternera.
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