VANCOUVER, April 16 /CNW/ - Gitennes Exploration Inc. (TSX-GIT) is pleased to report that geologists working for the Company have recently completed a brief mapping and sampling programme on the TotoRoko Property. Results are highly encouraging, with the mineralized zone being traced in patchy outcrop along a 3,500-metre strike length. The property has been increased in size to 5,000 hectares. TotoRoko is a grassroots prospecting discovery made by the Company and is located in west-central Peru.
Copper-silver-gold mineralization at surface is oxidized, with secondary minerals such as matrix-filling and disseminated chrysocola and malachite occurring within highly metasomatized, Jurassic-aged volcanic tuffs and related sediments. Recent work suggests that this mineralization is confined to a bedded tuff unit that dips down-slope at forty degrees and maybe 10 to 50 metres thick. Additional zones are likely present.
A new area of copper-silver mineralization has now been found at least 1,500 metres further northwest than the original showings. This new zone shows similar characteristics, with copper-bearing, silicified volcanic rocks enveloped by an epidote-garnet-magnetite skarn. Mineralization appears to strike in a north-westerly direction into an area of anomalous stream sediment anomalies that has not been prospected. The 1,500 metre "gap" between the two prospects has also not been prospected in detail. Bedrock exposure is poor within this gap, but mineralized float is present, suggesting that in-fill work could confirm the potential continuity of the prospective mineralization.
New chip channel results from scattered outcrops within these two mineralized zones include the following significant copper - silver results:
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Sample length
(m) Zone Cu % Ag (g/t) Au ppb
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5.0 NW 2.79 23.3 136
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1.5 NW 1.33 63.7 206
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1.0 NW 1.24 4.8 -
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1.5 SE 1.97 45.0 663
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2.0 SE 1.38 29.8 -
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1.0 SE 1.06 25.7 -
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1.0 SE 1.73 34.4 -
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6.0 SE 1.58 32.7 204
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2.0 SE 1.37 25.2 -
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3.0 SE 0.54 56.4 -
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1.5 SE 0.79 42.6 -
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1.5 SE 0.94 17.0 -
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6.0 SE 0.83 24.3 -
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The zone remains open to the northwest and the southeast. The widespread occurrences of mineralized float suggest that other zones will be found on the property.
Exploration work at TotoRoko is expected to continue over the next few months, including detailed mapping, sampling and geophysical surveys.
Work at TotoRoko is supervised by A. Fernandez-Baca (P.Geo). Analytical services are provided by ALS Chemex in Lima, Peru. The technical information in this release has been reviewed by J. Blackwell (P.Geo), a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
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