Stroud Resources Ltd. Outlines Drilling Program for its Santo Domingo Silver Property, Mexico
November 12 2020 - 6:53PM
Stroud Resources Ltd. (TSXV-SDR) (“
Stroud” or the
“
Company”) is pleased to announce that its
drilling permit application is in the final approval stage with the
Mexican mining authority for its Santo Domingo Silver Property (the
“Property”), located in Hostotipaquillo region of Jalisco, Mexico.
Stroud submitted its drilling permit application in respect of
its Santo Domingo Property in mid July when the Mexican government
office in Guadalajara re-opened from a COVID-19 shutdown. We have
been tracking the progress of the application and are pleased to
note it has reached the final post-review stage. We anticipate
receiving the drilling permit by the end of this year.
The drilling permit covers 13 drill sites encompassing 50 drill
holes across the Property, which incorporates both drilling
programs that the Company has planned for early 2021. The first
drilling program will use at least three of the sites and is
designed to confirm the geological and mineral resource modelling
of the Property which Stroud has developed. Our modelling of the
Santo Domingo Property had identified additional mineralized zones
running parallel to the previously announced mineral resource
estimate.
The current planned drilling program will also reach deeper into
the ground to sample the silver-rich vein mineralization beyond
where Spanish miners were active. It is our expectation that the
grades of silver and gold in these zones would be higher as they
have never been accessed. The second phase of the drilling program
will use the remaining 10 drill sites to expand and in-fill drill
the resources in order to produce a new National Instrument 43-101
(“NI 43-101”) Technical Report and a Preliminary Economic
Assessment (“PEA”).
The Company has been readying the camp at Santo Domingo in
anticipation of the granting of the drilling permit for the
drilling program. We expect to be mobilized within 10 days of
receiving the permits.
On November 20, 2017, the Company issued an
updated NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate and Technical Report on
the Santo Domingo Property. This report is available online at
SEDAR and on the Company’s website.
Highlights from the technical report
include:
- Measured and indicated mineral resources increased to 25.74M
silver equivalent ounces from 15.05M.
- Inferred mineral resources increased to 13.39M silver
equivalent ounces from 10.68M.
- La Rayas vein indicates a mineralized zone that is 35 metres
wide by 300 metres deep and over 700 metres along strike.
- Guadalupe vein is typically 15 to 30 metres wide.
- Five additional veins have been identified for future
exploration, deeper into the hillside.
The Report confirms Measured and Indicated, and
Inferred Mineral Resources as set out in the table below:
A table accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/cc723e18-7442-4be2-a4ac-4ec556d24374
Cut-off grade was 45 grams per tonne silver
equivalent over a three metre true width and a gold-silver ratio of
72:1 Continuity of mineralization was established by drilling on 50
metre centres, and using a specific gravity of 2.65
The Santo Domingo Property is located in the
Hostotipaquillo region of Jalisco, which is steeped in a rich
mining history. The Property falls directly along structure at the
Santo Domingo Vein system and is representative of a host of old
mining operations that are spread throughout the region.
Original workings of the Spanish miners dot the
landscape throughout the Hostotipaquillo region, with numerous old
workings, tunnels and adits found on the Santo Domingo property.
These reach to a depth of 80 - 100 metres as the 16th century
Spanish miners were limited by their technology. Investigation of
these mine workings confirms how the adits were simply followed to
only take the central high-grade ore. Historical reporting
from around the region details the nature of the vein exposures.
The early reporting suggests that mine cut off grades were in the
order of 750 g/t silver and lower grades were simply left behind as
the chase for the core materials continued.
Stroud’s exploration of the two main mineralized
zones has drilled through many of the workings. These zones;
La Rayas and Guadalupe, are a series of banded to breccia style
epithermal quartz carbonate vein systems represented with
miargyrite, galena, sphalerite, argentite and native silver and
gold. La Rayas is 30-35 metres wide and Guadalupe is 15-30 metres
wide. Both are parallel structures with greater than a 700-metre
strike length and about 300 metre depth.
Stroud has drilled 44 holes on these two
mineralized zones, with every hole encountering mineralization. The
NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate and Technical Report issued for
the Property presented a resource of almost 26 million ounces of
silver equivalent in the measured and indicated categories, and
over 13 million silver ounces equivalent in the Inferred category.
This is a significant silver-gold deposit. The La Rayas and
Guadalupe zones are within 150 meters of surface, and every
indication suggests open pit capability for mining the ore.
The Property has not been explored very much
below 100 metres from surface. A hole of 200 metres drilled by
Stroud passed through the La Rayas and Guadalupe zones to encounter
a third parallel zone. Further investigation of the old Spanish
workings on the property have pointed toward the presence of five
additional mineralized zones running parallel to La Rayas and
Guadalupe, deeper into the hillside. The Qualifying Technical
report summarizes the drilling over the La Rayas and the Guadalupe
zones, which are close to surface and were heavily mined by the
Spanish miners. The potential of this resource beyond those
workings is considerable well beyond the 39 million silver
equivalent ounces reported to date.
Stroud management is excited by the new drilling
program designed to explore beyond what the Spanish miners were
able to reach. The program is designed to confirm the presence of
the additional veins and verify the higher grades we anticipate are
there.
Dr. Derek McBride, P. Eng. is the qualified
person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible
for the technical information of this release.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
About Stroud Resources Ltd.
Stroud Resources is a TSXV listed company focused on the
exploration and development of its Santo Domingo epithermal
silver-gold project in central Mexico.
For more information please
visit www.stroudsilver.com or contact Mirsad Jakubovic,
Chief Financial Officer, Stroud Resources Ltd., Tel: (416)
888-8731, mirsad@cpamba.ca
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