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Norsemont Mining Provides Update on Choquelimpie Geological Campaign
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Norsemont Mining Inc. (CSE: NOM, OTCQB: NRRSF, FWB: LXZ1) (“Norsemont” or the “Company”) is pleas
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Norsemont Mining Inc. (CSE: NOM, OTCQB: NRRSF, FWB: LXZ1) (“Norsemont” or the “Company”) is pleased to share some preliminary results from its ongoing geological, geochemical, and geophysical exploration program at the historic Choquelimpie deposit. The geological team has generated preliminary interpretations based on systematic re-assaying of historic drill hole samples, geological relogging of historic diamond drill core, and the previously reported pole-dipole induced polarisation (PDIP) and magneto-telluric (MT) geophysical survey by Southern Rock Geophysics. The re-assay program comprised 14,850 coarse reject and pulp samples from historic drill holes. The samples were sent to Andes Analytical Laboratories in Santiago Chile, where they were analysed for Au, Ag, Cu and 38 element ICP. Systematic QA/QC samples were included. These samples represent approximately 16% of the total samples from the historic resource area and are being used to validate the historic drilling results. Norsemont geologists re-logged 6,346 metres of historic diamond drill holes. They have created a new and evolving geological model and have prepared 10 geological cross-sections, that will be used to support the updated resource estimate being prepared by Mine Development Associates / RESPEC of Reno Nevada, USA. The geophysical program consisted of eleven 250 metre–spaced survey lines up to 2.6 kilometres in length. Every second line, for a total of 13.7 line-kilometres, was surveyed using PDIP-MT, and five intervening lines were surveyed with MT only for a total of 11.8 kilometres. The survey was completed in July and the results and report delivered in August. The interpretation of the geophysical results is ongoing. Core logging, surface mapping, and surface sampling is progressing, with the objective of increasing our understanding of the Choquelimpie deposit, toward supporting an updated resource estimate, and identifying targets for confirmatory and exploratory diamond drilling in the near-term. The epithermal gold - silver mineralization at Choquelimpie occurs within a dacitic dome and diatreme complex in the core of an eroded Miocene stratovolcano. Higher-grade mineralization occurs as structurally focused bodies of hydrothermal breccia that cut and mineralize earlier phreatic an...