Eloro Resources Further Amends Payment Schedule for Iska Iska Silver-Tin Polymetallic Project, Potosi Department, Bolivia
March 13 2024 - 10:49AM
Eloro Resources Ltd. (TSX: ELO; OTCQX: ELRRF; FSE:
P2QM) (“Eloro”, or the “Company”) is pleased to
announce that, by mutual agreement with Empresa Minera Villegas
S.R.L. (“Minera Villegas”), the title holder of the Iska Iska
silver-tin polymetallic project in the Potosi Department, southern
Bolivia (“Iska Iska”), the payment schedule in connection with the
remaining portion of US$5.1 million of the aggregate US$10 million
payment required for Eloro to earn a 100% interest in Iska Iska has
been further amended.
Pursuant to the private option agreement to
acquire Iska Iska, as amended, Eloro’s Bolivian subsidiary, Minera
Tupiza S.R.L. (“Minera Tupiza”) has made advance payments of US$4.9
million to date towards the US$10 million option payment. As per
mutual agreement the schedule for the remaining option payments has
been amended whereby Eloro, through Minera Tupiza, has agreed to
pay Minera Villegas US$500,000 on or before April 30, 2024,
US$1,000,000 on or before May 30, 2025, with the remaining US$3.6
million due on or before July 6, 2025.
About Iska
Iska
Iska Iska silver-tin polymetallic project is a
road accessible, royalty-free property, wholly controlled by the
Title Holder, Empresa Minera Villegas S.R.L. and is located 48 km
north of Tupiza city, in the Sud Chichas Province of the Department
of Potosi in southern Bolivia. Eloro has an option to earn a 100%
interest in Iska Iska.
Iska Iska is a major silver-tin polymetallic
porphyry-epithermal complex associated with a Miocene possibly
collapsed/resurgent caldera, emplaced on Ordovician age rocks with
major breccia pipes, dacitic domes and hydrothermal breccias. The
caldera is 1.6km by 1.8km in dimension with a vertical extent of at
least 1km. Mineralization age is similar to Cerro Rico de Potosí
and other major deposits such as San Vicente, Chorolque, Tasna and
Tatasi located in the same geological trend.
Eloro began underground diamond drilling from
the Huayra Kasa underground workings at Iska Iska on September 13,
2020. On November 18, 2020, Eloro announced the discovery of a
significant breccia pipe with extensive silver polymetallic
mineralization just east of the Huayra Kasa underground workings
and a high-grade gold-bismuth zone in the underground workings. On
November 24, 2020, Eloro announced the discovery of the SBBP
approximately 150m southwest of the Huayra Kasa underground
workings.
Subsequently, on January 26, 2021, Eloro
announced significant results from the first drilling at the SBBP
including the discovery hole from 0.0m to 257.5m. Subsequent
drilling has confirmed significant values of Ag-Sn polymetallic
mineralization in the SBBP and the adjacent CBP. A substantive
mineralized envelope which is open along strike and down-dip
extends around both major breccia pipes. Continuous channel
sampling of the Santa Barbara Adit located to the east of SBBP
returned 164.96 g Ag/t, 0.46%Sn, 3.46% Pb and 0.14% Cu over 166m
including 446 g Ag/t, 9.03% Pb and 1.16% Sn over 56.19m. The west
end of the adit intersects the end of the SBBP.
Since the initial discovery hole DHK-15 which
returned 29.53g Ag/t, 0.078g Au/t, 1.45%Zn, 0.59%Pb, 0.080%Cu and
0.056%Sn over 257.5m, Eloro has released a number of significant
drill results in the SBBP and the surrounding mineralized envelope
which along with geophysical data has defined an extensive target
zone. On October 17, 2023, Eloro filed the NI 43-101 Technical
Report outlining the initial inferred MRE for Iska Iska, prepared
by Micon International Limited. The MRE was reported in two
domains, the Polymetallic (Ag-Zn-Pb) Domain which is primarily in
the east and south of the Santa Barbara deposit and the Tin
(Sn-Ag-Pb) Domain which is primarily in the west and north. The
Polymetallic Domain is estimated to contain 560Mt at 13.8 g Ag/t,
0.73% Zn & 0.28% Pb at an NSR cutoff of US$9.20 for potential
open pit and an NSR cutoff of US$34.40 for potential underground.
The majority of the mineral resource is contained in the
constraining pit which has a stripping ratio of 1:1.
The Polymetallic Domain contains a higher-grade
mineral resource at a NSR cutoff of $US25/t of 132 million tonnes
at 1.11% Zn, 0.50% Pb and 24.3 g Ag/t which has a net NSR value of
US$34.40/t which is 3.75 the estimated operating cost of US$9.20/t.
The Tin Domain which is adjacent the Polymetallic Domain and does
not overlap, is estimated to contain a mineral resource of 110Mt at
0.12% Sn, 14.2 g Ag/t and 0.14% Pb but is very under drilled.
The Company has completed a 5,267.7m definition
drill program to upgrade and expand the higher- grade mineral
resource in the Polymetallic Domain and has commenced a preliminary
economic evaluation (PEA) led by Lycopodium.
About Eloro
Resources Ltd.
Eloro is an exploration and mine development
company with a portfolio of gold and base-metal properties in
Bolivia, Peru and Quebec. Eloro, through 98% owned Minera Tupiza
SRL, has an option to acquire a 100% interest in the highly
prospective Iska Iska Property, which can be classified as a
polymetallic epithermal-porphyry complex, a significant mineral
deposit type in the Potosi Department, in southern Bolivia. A
recent NI 43-101 Technical Report on Iska Iska, which was completed
by Micon International Limited, is available on Eloro’s website and
under its filings on SEDAR+. Iska Iska is a road-accessible,
royalty- free property. Eloro also owns an 82% interest in the La
Victoria Gold/Silver Project, located in the North-Central Mineral
Belt of Peru some 50 km south of the Lagunas Norte Gold Mine and
the La Arena Gold Mine.
For further
information please
contact either
Thomas G.
Larsen, Chairman
and CEO or
Jorge Estepa,
Vice-President at (416)
868-9168.
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