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Aztec Commences 2023 Exploration Program at Cervantes Gold-Copper Project, Sonora, Mexico
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 7, 2023 / Aztec Minerals Corp. (TSXV:AZT)(OTCQB:AZZTF) has com...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Aztec Commences 2023 Exploration Program at Cervantes Gold-Copper Project, Sonora, MexicoVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 7, 2023 / Aztec Minerals Corp. (TSXV:AZT)(OTCQB:AZZTF) has commenced the 2023 exploration program at its 100% owned Cervantes porphyry gold-copper project in Sonora, Mexico.Aztec mobilized two field crews in February to conduct a surface exploration program comprised of road cut, reconnaissance outcrop and soil sampling, Terraspec SWIR data collection and geological mapping. Aztec plans to collect and analyze for multi-elements and SWIR over 1,300 geochemical samples including 950 road cut, 120 soils and 250 outcrop chips to expand and enhance geochemical and geological knowledge throughout the Cervantes project. View: Cervantes 2023 Phase 1 Road Cut Channel Sampling PlanMapping is focused on the exposed road cuts with detailed lithological, structural and alteration mapping of the California target, while reconnaissance surface work is to be conducted on the California North, Estrella, Jasper, Purisima, Jacobo, La Verde, Brazil, El Indio targets. To gain efficiency, the surface exploration program is being conducted during the regional dry season. The field teams are examining outcrop exposures generated from recently constructed drill roads with detailed geological mapping for the lithologies, alterations (Terraspec), mineralization, structures and geotechnical aspects. The road cuts are being continuously chip channel sampled and then surveyed to consolidate surface data with the geochemistry of the drill hole dataset, as well as to assist in 3D modeling. A structural geology study will be conducted, especially to help establish the displacements of the mineralization since its emplacement.Project data evaluation also continues to advance including using the understandings gained on the multi-element relationships with Au and applying them to the soil sampling data, reviewing the subsequent results to the geophysical data and the SWIR-Terraspec data, 3D modeling of the data, metallurgical, and multiple other investigations.The primary objectives of the 2023 exploration program are to continue to define the open pit, heap leach gold potential of the porphyry oxide cap at California, test the down dip extensions of the phyllic alteration in the Qfp intrusive for deeper copper-gold porphyry sulfide minerali...