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Mantaro Precious Metals Enters into 5,000 Meter Diamond Drill Contract for Golden Hill Property
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Mantaro Precious Metals Enters into 5,000 Meter Diamond Drill Contract for Golden Hill Property\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n VANCOUVER, BC\n \n \n ,\n \n \n April 6, 2022\n \n \n /CNW/ -\n \n MANTARO PRECIOUS METALS CORP.\n \n (TSXV: MNTR) (OTCQB: MSLVF) (FSE: 9TZ) (the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a drill contract with\n \n Leduc Drilling S.R.L\n \n . (\"Leduc Drilling\") to carry out an initial\n \n 5,000m\n \n diamond drilling program at the La Escarcha, Gabby and Brownfields targets of Golden Hill Property,\n \n Bolivia\n \n .\n \n \n \n Highlights:\n \n \n \n \n \n Up to 5,000 meters of angled diamond drill is planned to commence in late April of 2022.\n \n \n \n \n The initial program will focus on 3 high-priority drill targets at La Escarcha, Gaby and Brownfields, where veins between 1 to 5 meters in width have been reported.\n \n \n \n \n Drilling will initially test the depth extension of mineralization at the La Escarcha target.\n \n \n \n \n \n Craig Hairfield\n \n , Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, \"\n \n Our exploration work to date at Golden Hill has allowed us to better define the high priority drill targets and understand grade continuity within the vein system.  Greenstone hosted gold systems, such as Golden Hill, are very attractive exploration targets as deposits typically occur in clusters along regional structures over strike lengths of several kilometers and depths of >1 kilometer\n \n .\n \n Drilling will initially test the depth extension of La Escarcha, centered around historic workings and recent Mantaro exploratory work, followed by testing of other high priority targets that have been delineated in our recent surface programs.\"\n \n \n \n Golden Hill is centered on a broadly north-south trending regional structure (see Figure 1) that hosts the La Escarcha underground mine and the Gabby, Garrapatillia and Brownfields workings and gold-bearing veins in its western hanging wall. The same structure hosts numero...