Aftermath Silver Ltd. provided assay results from its Phase 2 diamond drill program at the Berenguela silver-copper-manganese located in the Department of Puno in southern Peru. Results are included for 22 holes from the planned 60-hole (4,600m) program of diamond core drilling. Additional holes to be released pending overlimit check assays.
Highlights of the current drilling include: AFD078 intersected 9.1m @ 447g/t Ag + 1.85% Cu + 17.96% Mn from surface; AFD082 intersected 15.3m @ 439g/t Ag + 1.81% Cu + 4.2% Mn from 12.8m downhole within a broader intercept of 30m @ 269g/t Ag + 1.81% Cu + 5.85% Mn from 12.8m downhole. Objectives of Drilling Holes AFD078 to AFD087 targeted the western limit of the existing mineral resource and were designed to extend and define the margin of mineralization whilst converting inferred resources to indicated and/or measured categories where appropriate. Holes AFD088 to AFD099 were drilled in an area known as the southern "keel" zone and cut mineralization largely beyond the southwest limit of the existing resource.
The southern keel is interpreted to be the remnants of a synform detached from the main Berenguela mineralization by faulting. The majority of the mineralization intersected in the southern keel is not included in the existing mineral resource. Geology: The host stratigraphy at Berenguela comprises folded thickly bedded, light grey limestones and dolomitized limestones.
Several large bodies of black massive, patchy, and fracture-controlled manganese oxide replacement mineralization with associated silver, copper, and zinc enrichment, occur in the folded limestones. Mineralization largely follows stratigraphy and is typically conserved as eroded synform or antiform remnants, usually exposed at surface and with fold axes trending 105-120 degrees. The limestone is underlain by a transitional arenite unit overlying evaporites in footwall formations.
Historical mapping and resource modelling shows the mineralization to extend for roughly 1,300m along strike - including a 100m gap or discontinuity which was drill tested in the current program - with a width of 200 to 400m. The drilling was carried out at a high angle to the stratigraphically controlled mineralization and intersections can be assumed to approximate to true thickness. The western edge of the mineralization has been shown to be a complex area with folded and faulted contacts that juxtapose high-grade mineralization against barren limestone and footwall units.
Copper mineralization in the western edge, where encountered, is relatively high-grade. It should be noted that topography causes the mineralization to be cut off to the west as the footwall formations crop out westwards. The southern keel is also notable for relatively high Cu and Mn grades encountered from surface in the holes.
