Honza Catchpole is an exploration geologist with 15 years of experience working in Mexico, USA, Canada, Andean South America and Europe. Honza Catchpole received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research focused on the relationship of zoned epithermal silver and base metal mineralization to porphyry-type mineral deposits at Morococha, central Peru. He has extensive experience in mineral exploration with porphyry Cu, skarn (Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu), epithermal precious (Au-Ag) and base metal (Ag-Zn-Pb-Cu) deposits. In former roles he worked for Teck Resources Limited, Sumitomo Metal Mining Canada and Vale Exploration Canada in project generation, exploration and project evaluation of precious metal and porphyry Cu projects.
Prior to joining GR Silver Mining, he was managing Teck Resources’ epithermal Au-Ag and porphyry Cu generative and drill programs in northern Mexico and managing exploration and geoscience activities at the advanced-stage San Nicolas VHMS project in Zacatecas, Mexico.
He is fluent in German, Spanish and French, and is registered as a Professional Geologist (P. Geo) in British Columbia, Canada.
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Speaker 1: Well, so you recently announced an expanded drill program. Can you please provide some more details? Speaker 2: So yes, so we Speaker 2: are going to a new phase of exploration now with this drill program. It's going to be an exploration drill program Speaker 2: compared to Speaker 2: now we completed Speaker 2: the resource drilling for the San Juan and Speaker 2: the Palomosos Speaker 2: areas. Speaker 2: In reality, this is now we're going to mobilise 7 rigs and Speaker 2: the drill plan is going to be about 14, 000m Speaker 2: and we're looking at Speaker 2: quite a few different targets we had our eyes on for quite a bit now. Speaker 2: And among these are brand new areas that have never been drilled before and some of them are old historic areas that have seen some drilling, like for example, the Saltito area, which is a completely new vein system Speaker 2: that hasn't been touched by us yet, but it has some historic information and proven goal intercepts. Speaker 2: And other areas are really extension Speaker 2: of the main system, we can see San Juan up to the north and to the south. And Speaker 2: some of the areas are connecting Speaker 2: the deposits, Speaker 2: let's say the San Juan and Speaker 2: the San Marcial area, so there we have Speaker 2: the Speaker 2: so-called gap area, which is Speaker 2: inside between Speaker 2: the 2 areas which are about 5 kilometers Speaker 2: apart. So here really we have the chance to Speaker 2: fill out the dots and the gaps Speaker 2: between these 2 deposits and prove this is a big system. All right, well, what was the catalyst for increasing the existing Speaker 1: exploration drill program? Speaker 2: So essentially, Speaker 2: as mentioned, Speaker 2: we're trying to now identify the areas and prove...
