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Terreno Resources Announces Proposed 2020 Exploration Program for the Las Cucharas Gold & Silver Project in Mexico
(via TheNewswire) TORONTO, CANADA - TheNewswire - February 27, 2020 - Terreno Resource...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Terreno Resources Announces Proposed 2020 Exploration Program for the Las Cucharas Gold & Silver Project in Mexico(via TheNewswire)\n \n \nTORONTO, CANADA - TheNewswire - February 27, 2020 - Terreno Resources Corp. (TSXV:TNO.H) (\"Terreno\" or the \"Company\") George A. Brown, President & CEO, is pleased to announce the proposed plans for 2020 fieldwork at the Las Cucharas Gold and Silver Project (\"Las Cucharas\") in Nayarit, Mexico, which are subject to financing. \n\n \n \nLas Cucharas represents a historic gold and silver mining area with well documented small-scale production from 1903 through 1961 of 3,000 kilograms of gold and 30,000 kilograms of silver (Vargas, 1994, COREMI Pub M-12e). It is located in the southern extreme of the mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental (SMO) volcanic belt, which hosts many of Mexico's gold and silver deposits. Las Cucharas is considered a low-sulfidation epithermal precious metal system hosted in andesitic to rhyolitic volcanic flows, tuffs, ignimbrites, and associated subvolcanic intrusions. Significant vein hosted gold and silver mineralization occurs along a six kilometer long northwest-trending regional structural zone. The project area covers 4,447 hectares in seventeen (17) concessions (SEE MAP 1).\n\n \n \nFourteen major showings occur along this structural zone, including underground adits developed on several levels, cross cuts, exploration adits, and surface prospecting pits. Geological mapping on the property shows that the main mineralized zones have strong structural control, with the main structural directions being northwest to north-northwest, northeast, and east-west to east-northeast. The vein structures often form large mineralized lenses and ore shoots where these structures intersect, and coincide with the larger underground adits. Quartz veins, shear structures, stockwork zones, and breccias show typical low-sulfidation epithermal textures such as fine banding in veins and breccias, as well as drusy, bladed, and chalcedonic quartz. \n\n \n \nMost historical work on the Las Cucharas project has focused on known mineralized showings, but as fieldwork has advanced, Terreno has consistently discovered new zones and extensions of existing zones. Widespread gold and silver values occur in many smaller showings throughout the project area which are located well outside of...