Mirasol Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:
MRZ) (OTC:
MRZLF) (the “
Company” or
“
Mirasol”) is pleased to report on the significant
progress made from this seasons exploration activities and the
emergence of new and highly-prospective target areas at both the
VN-Zone at Sobek Central as well as the El Potro Zone at Sobek
North, both within the flagship Sobek Copper-Gold Project (“Sobek”
or “the Project”) in the Vicuña Copper-Gold-Silver District of
northeast Chile.
The VN-Zone is a high-priority porphyry target
situated in the southern portion of the Sobek Central block which
appears to represent the northern most expression of a much larger
hydrothermal porphyry system that extends for more than 3
kilometers to the south. Exploration this season has significantly
increased the alteration and mineralization footprint of the
VN-Zone to the south across the previously consolidated SQM
property (“Rosita”) (press release dated March 4, 2024) and onto
recently staked Mirasol claim blocks (“Sobek 46 South”).
At the El Potro prospect, located in the
southeastern corner of the Sobek North block, a new magnetic high
target (“Potro SE”) was identified from the original airborne-mag
survey and the new target appears to be at a shallower depth than
the previous resistivity target identified at EL Potro. Recent
follow-up exploration has returned results as high as 1.8% copper
and 87 ppm molybdenum from select grab samples directly overlying
the magnetic anomaly at Potro SE. A systematic soil grid survey
across the target also returned a coincident copper soil
anomaly.
“The high-priority targets at Sobek continue to
evolve as exploration advances. The potential expansion of the
VN-Zone into a hydrothermal porphyry system with a much larger and
stronger alteration footprint is a game-changer. The VN-Zone is now
demonstrating significant size potential and is located 7km
directly west of the Filo Del Sol Project on a similar parallel
regional structure,” Mirasol’s President and CEO Tim Heenan stated.
“Significant advancements were made this season, including the
definition of new high-priority drill targets, despite the
difficult conditions due to unseasonable weather in the high Andes
and an abnormally early snow fall that has forced a shortened
exploration season.”
Mr. Heenan added: “I am also very excited about
the potential of the new copper porphyry target at the El Potro
Zone. Potro SE is a shallow cylindrical shaped magnetic response in
a similar geological setting as reported by NGEx at the Lunahuasi
discovery just 3 kilometers to the east. Once the weather allows a
final IP survey will be conducted over Potro SE to refine drill
targeting. This is expected to be the first priority for drilling
at the start of the spring drill campaign in the fourth quarter of
2024.”
Summary of Key Accomplishments from the
2023/24 Exploration Season at Sobek
Sobek Central: VN-Zone and south through
Sobek 46 South
- Access road up
to the VN-Zone completed in January 2023.
- Staking of the
new Sobek 46/47, and geological evaluation of the property,
including initial reconnaissance exploration, ongoing detailed
systematic soil sampling grid, confirming the presence of a very
large porphyry related hydrothermal alteration system extending
more than 3 kilometers south from the VN-Zone.
- At the VN-Zone,
IP PDP geophysical lines through the VN-Zone for a total of 2,400
meters, generating compelling Resistivity and Chargeability
anomalies, to aid in focusing the upcoming southern hemisphere
spring drill program.
- Detailed
geological mapping at the VN-Zone and Rosita.
Sobek North: El Potro and Potro
SE
- New access road
constructed up into the El Potro prospect.
- IP Gradient
Array geophysical campaign, followed up by 14.5 kilometer of
detailed IP PDP geophysical lines over the Gradient Array generated
anomalies.
- Detailed
systematic soil grid over the newly identified, near surface Potro
SE copper-porphyry target.
Rosita – SQM Consolidation Property
Package
- High level
reconnaissance geological mapping and prospecting.
- Detailed stream
sediment sampling. BLEG/-80# within the property to detect areas of
potential interest.
Abnormal weather through out the season has
caused difficult working conditions and significant delays. At
least four weeks of the prime exploration season was lost due to
unseasonable weather mid-season. Heavy rain and snowfall washed out
access roads that required repair. Now, very untimely and heavy
snowfall, almost two months earlier than last season, has halted
plans to advance towards drilling at El Potro and also delays the
construction of a new road to support the exploration and
evaluation of the VN-Zone expansion onto the new Rosita and Sobek
46 properties.
With the recent advancements in exploration at
Sobek and the promising results obtained from both the El Potro and
VN-Zone targets, Mirasol Resources will soon be ready to continue
with the previously initiated maiden drill program. Continuing
efforts will focus on refining target prioritization and further
delineation of mineralized zones.
High-Profile Vicuña
Copper-Gold-Silver District
Mirasol staked the Sobek Project in 2016 based
on prospective local geology and attractive structural architecture
prior to the 2021 discovery of the high-grade feeder zone at the
Filo del Sol gold-copper deposit and the discovery of Lunahuasi.
The continually expanded and consolidated Sobek Project is located
on the same regional N-S trending structural corridor and just 3 km
to the west of the Filo del Sol deposit and 3 km to the southwest
of NGEx Mineral’s discovery at Lunahuasi (formerly Potro
Cliffs).
Sobek is located within a prospective geological
environment with a compelling north-northeast trending mineralized
structural corridor crosscut by a north-northwest trending
deep-seated trans-cordilleran lineament. This is a common
structural configuration hosting several southern Andes metal
deposits in both Chile and Argentina.
Figure 1: Vicuña District - Expanded Sobek
Property including the SQM Rosita Property and the Sobek 46 South
Staking
Sobek Central - VN-Zone and Southward
Expansion
The VN-Zone was identified in early 2023 as a
high-priority target after high-grade gold grab samples were
collected during prospecting, with results of up to 5.0 g/t gold
and 2,200 ppm copper from select grab samples (press release dated
June 27, 2023). The exact in situ source of these high-grade
veinlet hosted gold-copper values have not yet been located and it
appears that the source may be further to the south where current
exploration has extended the structural corridor into Rosita and
Sobek 46 South. These robust gold results originate from sheeted
Maricunga Type (“M”) quartz-magnetite veinlets with argillized
margins. These M veinlets contain anomalous values of copper
mineralization (up to 2,220 ppm), which is considered typical in
these Chilean gold-copper Maricunga Type porphyry deposits.
The property consolidation efforts of Mirasol in
the Vicuña district continue and is exemplified by the expansion to
the south of the VN-Zone, continuing further south from the
previously incorporated Rosita block and now into the recently
staked Sobek 46 South property. This block unexpectedly became
available recently and Mirasol reacted quickly to gain possession
of the claim area. Recent exploration to the south of VN-Zone,
passing through Rosita and into Sobek 46 South, suggests that the
actual VN-Zone may only represent the northern most expression of a
much larger and stronger hydrothermal system which increases
considerably in size and strength into the newly staked Sobek 46
South Zone. This is an exciting new area, clearly prospective for
copper porphyry´s and clearly justifies more exploration to define
the best targets to be drilled prior to the end of the year.
The emerging porphyry target at Sobek 46 South,
and potentially at Rosita, is associated with a very strong aerial
MT sourced magnetic response where recent prospecting campaigns
have reported copper mineralization in rockchips directly above the
subsurface magnetic anomaly. Recent, and currently ongoing
systematic soil sampling has also started to define what appears to
be a strong and coherent copper/moly/gold soil anomaly coincident
with the rockchip geochemistry overlying the MT Magnetic response.
The completion of the entire soil grid has been impeded by the
recent snowstorms in the entire Vicuña District. There is a large
NNW-SSE trending mineralized structural corridor developing which
is over 3 kilometers long with the actual width yet to be
determined by further mapping and prospecting between now and the
end of 2024.
Figure 2: Sobek Central (VN-Zone), Rosita
Geology/Geochemistry with Sobek 46 South (large aerial MT sourced
magnetic anomaly with coincident geochemical copper-results)
The VN- Zone prospect, located in along the
southern border of Sobek Central, is a 1.3 by 1 kilometer zone,
where several areas display different types of quartz veinlets
hosted in dacitic outcropping host rock. These areas have been
mapped as hypabyssal intrusive bodies with strong brecciation
developed along the margins and geological contacts. The dacites
are hosted in Paleocene aged conglomerates, sandstones, and dacite
tuffs.
There are higher density veinlet zones situated
within the VN-Zone, covering an area of approximately 150 meters by
100 meters, located in a NNW-SSE structural corridor enclosing most
of these veinlet zone. Directly associated with the mineralized
quartz veinlet zone is strong quartz-sericite-pyrite (phyllic)
alteration, typically showing medium-grained white mica flakes
affecting the dacitic rocks and associated with silic. Samples
analyzed by ASD show a high crystallinity of the white micas,
consistent with these field observations.
The reported veinlet compositions and textures
(Figure 3) are interpreted to be peripheral zones to a copper-gold
porphyry system. The Maricunga type banded quartz-magnetite and the
quartz “D” veinlets are typically located peripheral to the core of
these Maricunga-style porphyry systems and are considered to be
derived from hot magmatic fluids, as seen by the association with
quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration and the presence of magnetite and
tourmaline. Results from the MT sections (Figure 4 - line 1700)
show a deep aerial sourced MT conductive anomaly with a cylindrical
shape typical of these Maricunga type Copper- Gold porphyry
bodies.
Figure 3: Typical Sheeted Quartz-Pyrite and
Quartz Magnetite Veinlets Exposed along VN-Zone Road Cut
Figure 4: Aerial MT Conductivity Anomaly - Line 1810 Cross
Section (cylindrical shaped anomaly at depth underneath the
VN-Zone)
Two IP-PDP lines were completed over the VN-Zone
revealing a less resistive surface response which may represent a
100-meter-thick leached cap zone (Figure 5). At further depth (350
meters), these resistivity values are extremely high reaching up to
30,000 ohm-m, potentially representing a silicified breccia body,
although notably much larger than those mapped in outcrop at
surface. The strong resistive anomaly is clearly structurally
controlled. The underlying IP-chargeability values further at depth
(300-500m) form a strong coherent anomaly up to 7 mV/V and are
coincident with the MT defined conductive body (Figure 4). This
IP-chargeability anomaly remains open at depth and could represent
the upper most zones of a pyrite+/-chalcopyrite halo.
Figure 5: IP-PDP Survey Sections over VN-Zone
(showing the structurally controlled IP-resistivity anomaly and the
underlying coherent IP-Chargeability anomaly)
El Potro ProspectAt the El
Potro prospect, located at the southeastern corner of the Sobek
North block, a strong aerial MT resistivity target (+30k Ohm) was
previously reported with elevated values from rockchips collected
from quartz veinlets within the older permo-triassic basement with
results as high as 4.9% copper, 4.6 g/t gold and 163 g/t silver.
Recently, a new and highly attractive magnetic high target (Potro
SE) was identified from the original Airborne-Mag survey. There is
also a notable IP-Chargeability anomaly emerging just to the north
of the Potro SE magnetic anomaly which was identified while
conducting an IP survey over the original El Potro airborne MT
resistivity target.
The Potro SE IP-Chargeability anomaly appears to
be directly associated with the strong cylindrical shaped Airborne
Magnetic anomaly at 300 meters below the surface. The associated IP
response may represent the sulfide halo peripheral to an intrusive
(porphyry) center. Additional IP lines are planned to cross
directly over the Airborne-Mag and geochemical anomalies to more
precisely map out the chargeable zone. These lines have not been
advanced due to recent heavy snowfall in the area, but Mirasol is
confident that these lines can be completed before the end of May
to have this target ready as a priority for drilling at the start
of the spring drill campaign.
Figure 6: Potro SE, RTP Airborne Magnetic Anomaly Cross Section
(cylindrical shaped magnetic feature with 3D mag-susceptibility
depth slices and the emergence of a chargeability halo)
The recently advanced Potro SE target is located
to the SE of the original El Potro target. Follow-up exploration
has returned results as high as 1.8% copper and 87ppm moly from
prospecting level rockchip sampling directly overlying this
magnetic anomaly. These results are considered to represent a more
typical porphyry style of veinlets and mineralization. A systematic
soil grid across the new Potro SE target has also returned a
coincident and coherent copper soil anomaly. The Potro SE target is
hosted in younger cretaceous aged sandstones, conglomerates, and
andesites with moderate to strong propylitic alteration, with zones
showing intense epidote, in association with calcite, chlorite,
magnetite, and quartz veinlets with chalcopyrite, crystalline
jarosite, and copper oxides. This alteration is interpreted to
represent deep propylitic alteration associated with a concealed
porphyry intrusion. The alteration outcrops over a 600 x 600m area
on the far southeast side of Mirasol's claims. This geological
setting is similar to that recently reported by NGEx at their
Lunahuasi project located just 3 kilometers to the east in
Argentina.
Figure 7: Potro SE, Copper Soil and Rockchip Sample Anomalies
Overlaying a Structurally Controlled 700m Wide Circular Magnetic
Response
Both the new Potro-SE Mag/IP anomaly and the
original previously reported El Potro MT-Resistivity anomaly
represent compelling drill targets at the El Potro prospect. The
new Potro SE target resides at a much shallower depth and has all
the makings of a quality target including both rockchip and soil
copper anomalies, a strong Air-mag cylindrical shaped anomaly, and
a chargeable IP response halo which has yet to be fully defined.
All of these coincident attributes clearly show why Potro SE is
being considered the priority drill target at the El Potro
prospect. Two or three additional geophysical lines of IP PDP are
planned over the target, to map out the chargeability halo more
precisely. Mirasol is confident that they can get these lines
completed before the end of the season which generally extend
through until late May or early June.
The El Potro target´s are located on the west
side of the Ventana Fault Zone within the hanging wall of this
reverse fault. Filo Mining has reported a series of porphyries,
with the Ventana Porphyry residing in the hanging wall and located
at the intersection of the NNE trending Ventana Fault and
intersecting NW-trending faults. The El Potro targets reside in a
similar structural configuration although it is interpreted that
the El Potro targets are hosted in more deeply eroded upthrown
structural block, exposing deep propylitic alteration potentially
associated with a porphyry at depth.
About Mirasol Resources Ltd
Mirasol is a well-funded exploration company
with 20 years of operating, permitting and community relations
experience in the mineral rich regions of Chile and Argentina.
Mirasol is currently self-funding exploration at two flagship
projects, Sobek and Inca Gold, both located in Chile and controls
100% of the high-grade Virginia Silver Deposit in Argentina.
Mirasol also continues to advance a strong pipeline of highly
prospective early and mid-stage projects.
For further information,
contact:
Tim Heenan, President & CEOorTroy Shultz,
Vice President Investor Relations
Tel: +1 (604) 602-9989Email:
contact@mirasolresources.comWebsite: www.mirasolresources.com
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this press release has been reviewed and approved by Tim Heenan
(MAIG), the President for the Company, who serves as a Qualified
Person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101.
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