Aftermath Silver Ltd. provided additional assay results from the Phase 2 diamond drill program at the Berenguela silver-copper-manganese deposit located in the Department of Puno in southern Peru. Following up on a historic hole drilled in 2015 (BED006 with an intercept of 123.30 metres, from 28.20m down hole, of 1.17% copper, 79 g/t Ag, and 11.1% Mn), Aftermath has drilled two step out sections 50m and 100m east of previous grid drilling in an area designated the Eastern Zone. The results included in the current release are for 9 holes from the Phase 2 program of diamond core drilling which the company has increased to 5,200m.
Assay results for the final drill holes from the current program will be reported in the coming weeks. Highlights of the current drilling include: AFD100 intersected 156m @ 290g/t Ag + 1.12% Cu + 7.3% Mn from surface including 6.9m @ 4,877 g/t Ag + 2.87% Cu + 12.4% Mn from 27.3m down hole;. Full results are given for 9 holes in the table below and a table of collar coordinates and hole azimuths is appended at the end of this release.
Drilling was carried out at a high angle to mineralization controls and intersections are assumed to equate to true thickness. Drill sections are available on Aftermath's website or by clicking here. The weighted average core recovery in the mineralized intersections was 97%.
Some lower recoveries were returned close to surface (0 to 5m) in initial drilling runs, and around some underground workings. The geology of each hole is summarised at the end of this released.
