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First Andes Silver Receives Approvals and Mobilizes Drill Rig for Santas Gloria Silver Property
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 29, 2024) - FIRST ANDES SILVER LTD. (TSXV: ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFirst Andes Silver Receives Approvals and Mobilizes Drill Rig for Santas Gloria Silver PropertyVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 29, 2024) - FIRST ANDES SILVER LTD. (TSXV: FAS) (OTC Pink: MSLVF) (FSE: 9TZ) (the \"Company\" or \"First Andes\") is pleased to announce that, following the Ministry of Mines (Peru) inspection of drill site at the Santas Gloria silver property, it has received authorization from the Ministry of Mines (Peru) to commence its permitted drill program at the Santas Gloria silver property. The drill rig has now been mobilized, arriving on site on August 3, 2024, with the maiden drill program targeted to commence August 5, 2024.The drill program will focus on strike and depth extensions of high-grade silver-base metal mineralized segments of the Tembladera and San Jorge veins, which have been defined by channel sampling of surface veins and underground workings (Figure 1).San Jorge is a multiphase silver-rich intermediate sulphidation epithermal vein system, that is up to 6 meters wide at the surface and has been mapped over 2 strike kilometers. Drilling will test the down dip extensions of a high-grade zone that returned surface channel samples assays of between 93 to 2500 g/t Ag over 450 m strike length. First Andes also plans to target a high-grade mineralized shoot beneath historical underground mine workings which returned underground channel samples grades of up to 3210 g/t Ag.The Tembladera vein system is a complex of silver-rich intermediate sulphidation vein splays and breccia's in the south of the Santas Gloria silver property, with a cumulative vein strike length of over 4 kilometers. Drilling at Tembladera will test the downdip and strike extensions of the vein where underground channel sampling by the Company that returned grades of >10,000 g/t Ag, >20% Pb and up to 9.1% Zn. Additional drilling will also focus on the near surface down dip extensions of high-grade silver mineralization which has been defined in surface channel samples over a strike length of 400 meters along the Tembladera 1 and Tembladera 2 veins.Figure 1: Map of the Santas Gloria Property showing planned drill pads, hole traces and channel sampling results.To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit:https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/10525/218085_e62651c194541b0c_002full.jpgThe Santas G...