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Aztec Continues to Expand the Cervantes Project California Zone with Additional Intersections of Broad and Shallow Oxide Gold Mineralization
The remaining 10 Reverse Circulation (RC) drill holes from the California Zone all intersected br...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Aztec Continues to Expand the Cervantes Project California Zone with Additional Intersections of Broad and Shallow Oxide Gold MineralizationThe remaining 10 Reverse Circulation (RC) drill holes from the California Zone all intersected broad oxidized near surface gold mineralization.All 13 step out drill holes of the recently completed program expanded the California zone gold mineralization in multiple directions.Step out drilling has grown the area of demonstrated Au mineralization of the California zone to 1,000m East-West.The 2023 exploration program was successful in discovering extensions, particularly to the West and Northwest, and confirms the broad style of the gold mineralized zone.VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 30, 2024 / Aztec Minerals Corp. (TSXV:AZT)(OTCQB:AZZTF) announces the additional gold results from the recently completed Reverse Circulation (RC) exploration drilling program conducted in Q4 2023 at the California gold zone of the Cervantes project in Sonora, Mexico. The results of the final 10 of the total 13 RC drill holes, CAL23-035 to 044, continued to show intersections of gold mineralization in the altered California intrusive porphyry complex extending the California gold zone to the West, North, South and East as well as to depth.Results for hole CAL23-041 (Fig. 3), a step-out extending the California zone to the West, returned 57.76 m grading 0.42 gpT Au. The results from all final ten RC drill holes encountered the gold mineralized and altered California intrusive complex.California Zone Drill HighlightsCAL23-035 - 47.12 m @ 0.51 gpT AuCAL23-041 - 57.76 m @ 0.42 gpT AuCAL23-044 - 59.44 m @ 0.28 gpt AuDrilling toward the West and Northwest of the California zone targeted the edge of an airborne magnetic low (Fig.5) that the California gold porphyry mineralization appears related to. The drilling has expanded the knowledge of the system, including support of the concept that much of the metasediments intersected are unconnected blocks as xenoliths within the California intrusive porphyry complex as relicts of its piercement by its uppermost levels. It is also being shown that the metasediments, specifically the quartzites, can host gold mineralization which hadn't been well evidenced before. Surface reconnaissance confirmed that the mineralized and altered quartz feldspar porphyry and hydrothermal...