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Southern Silver Reports Enriched Rare Earth Elements in Hole OR22-012; Extends Claims to Cover New Copper and REE Skarn/CRD Targets at the Oro Project, New Mexico; and Provides Corporate Update
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 14, 2023) - Southern Silver Exploration ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Southern Silver Reports Enriched Rare Earth Elements in Hole OR22-012; Extends Claims to Cover New Copper and REE Skarn/CRD Targets at the Oro Project, New Mexico; and Provides Corporate UpdateVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 14, 2023) - Southern Silver Exploration Corp. (TSXV: SSV) (\"Southern Silver\" and the \"Company\") reports that it has verified enriched Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in reconnaissance hole OR22-012, which was part of the Company's 2022 drilling program at its wholly owned Oro property, located in the Laramide-age, porphyry copper belt of southwestern New Mexico, USA. The Company has staked 62 new claims during 2023 to cover the western extension of the buried porphyry/CRD/Skarn system associated with hole OR22-012. The new claims increase the total Oro land package to 334 company-owned and seven leased Federal lode mining claims; two leased New Mexico State parcels; and company-owned private surface and mineral titles covering an area of about 36 square kilometres.Rare-Earth Element ResultsThe Company reports that a review of select light Rare Earth Elements (LREEs) from the earlier MS-ICP analyses from hole OR22-012 identified strong LREE enrichment. Thirty-nine pulps were selected from three enriched LREE zones for re-analyses by the more robust analytical method of fusion/ICPMS to confirm the initial test results and returned:0.104% TREO (1,045 ppm) over 10.9m starting at 613.9m,0.091% TREO (913 ppm) over 33.8m starting at 647.4m, and0.128% TREO (1,285 ppm) over 24.4m starting at 794.0m.All three zones occur within a 427.2m interval of strongly enriched copper mineralization, which was previously reported in NR-02-23, dated April 03,2023, and described below. The three zones (see Table below) average greater than 0.05% Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREOs).             Light REO ppm               Heavy REO ppm         From m To m Interval m TLREO % La2O3 CeO2 Pr2O3 Nd2O3 Sm2O3 Eu2O3 Gd2O3 Tb2O3 Dy2O3 Ho2O3 Er2O3 Tm2O3 Yb2O3 Lu2O3 Y2O3 THREO % TREO % 613.9 615.7 1.7 0.050 195 226 16.4 46.8 7.2 2.1 5.4 0.78 4.6 0.81 2.4 0.32 1.9 0.28 25 0.004 0.053 615.7 618.7 3.0 0.056 233 256 17 44.8 6.4 2.4 5.1 0.66 3.8 0.69 1.8 0.26 1.7 0.24 20 0.003 0.059 618.7 621.8 3.0 0.049 203 219 14 37.3 5.9 2.1 4.6 0.66 3.8 0.79 ...