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Royal Road Minerals Provides Exploration Update from Its Santo Domingo Porphyry Copper and Gold District; San Juan Province, Argentina
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 17, 2023) - Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV: RYR) ("R...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Royal Road Minerals Provides Exploration Update from Its Santo Domingo Porphyry Copper and Gold District; San Juan Province, ArgentinaToronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 17, 2023) - Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV: RYR) (\"Royal Road\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce the results of geological mapping, soil geochemical sampling and saw-cut rock-chip channel sampling from its Santo Domingo porphyry copper and gold project in San Juan Province, Argentina. The Santo Domingo district is located 120 km east of San Juan City at an average altitude of approximately 1,200 meters above sea level. The district comprises three, as-yet undrilled, porphyry copper-gold occurrences (El Arriero, Divisoria and Alunita) and several vein-hosted gold and silver mineralized systems located within a mineral rights package covering a total area of approximately 185 square kilometers. Royal Road has entered into an option agreement with an individual titleholder to acquire 100% of the mineral rights package (see Press Release, February 15, 2023).The porphyry occurrences at Santo Domingo are shallowly eroded and partly-exposed, but broadly reflect characteristic zoned porphyry alteration patterns from stockwork veining and copper- mineralized potassic altered cores, to haloes of phyllic and propylitic alteration which are overprinted by later gold and polymetallic vein systems (see Figure 1). Initial scout diamond drilling is scheduled to commence at El Arriero in early August of this year. Figure 1. Porphyry and vein-style mineralized occurrences and copper-gold rock-chip geochemistry of the Santo Domingo District. Title areas in yellow, all indicated title areas fall within the mineral rights package. To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit:https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/4008/173691_figure_1.jpgThe company has completed geological mapping, grid-based soil geochemical sampling and saw-cut rock-chip channel sampling at El Arriero. Geological mapping has revealed a cluster of variably altered, porphyritic intrusions and coeval sub-volcanic bodies that have been emplaced within earlier ring-fracture controlled magmatic breccia bodies. The shallow dipping contact between mineralized intrusive and breccia bodies with crystalline metamorphic host rocks is clearly exposed in surrounding hill sides indicating...