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Message: NR: Lluvia de Oro/La Jojoba Update
Lluvia de Oro/La Jojoba Update
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The New Year starts where we left off last year: drilling and blasting in three different parts of the Creston Pit, loading new ore on the new leach pads, and continuing with exploration and resource definition drilling. Of course, the laboratory is still preparing and assaying samples, the cactus rescue crews are digging-up cactus and replanting them in areas out of harm’s way, and the various construction crews are working on improvements and expansions of a number of things that will increase the productivity and efficiency of operations.
Southwest view of cell-1, of the new SW-1 leach pad. This view from last week shows the cell-1 after completion of spreading “over-liner” rock (rock that allows percolation of leach solutions from the overlying ore to the collector pipes below). New ore (right side of photo) is being placed on top of the completed cell. Cell-2, on the left side, shows the 80-mil HDPE plastic liner and the layout of collector pipes prior to being covered by the layer of over-liner.
A week later, this NW view of the SW-1, cell-1 (the 5-meter high stack of rock, with the 40-tonne mine truck on top) shows the progress of placing new ore on the leach pad. In this photo, collector pipes of cell-2 are being covered by over-liner rock (at the base of the 5-meter high ore pile). Cell-3 of SW-1 is in the lower right side of the photo and cell-3 of pad SW-2 is in the lower left of photo. These will, in turn, be covered with the over-liner rock, and then new ore.
The Exploration Department has been busy drilling and sampling a new area of mineralization (“Area 7”) discovered about 1,400 meter SW of Creston Pit. The drilling is going slow because the rocks are not easy to drill, but we are making progress and getting good core samples.
Supervisor Geologist, Esteban Dominguez, standing next to an outcrop of mineralization he discovered while exploring to the SW of Creston Pit. Note the blue stingers of azurite (a copper carbonate) forming intersecting veinlets in the rock with dark gray specularite (iron oxide). This style of mineralization is similar to that at the La Jojoba deposit (our next mine), which is located four kilometers to the west-northwest of this exposure. Other geologist and technical helpers are drilling with the air-track drill in the vicinity of Area 7. That crew has completed 29 holes in the first two days drilling in 2011 and will continue to drill until approximately 150 holes are completed in this area.
A new campaign for exploration will commence in the area of Campamento at the La Jojoba property by the end of January, with drilling there to commence about mid-January.
Prepared by Rodney A. Blakestad, C.P.G., Qualified Person
Please e-mail NWM Mining or telephone us at 416-364-6799 for more information.
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