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Highlights
- Underground drilling encountered high-grade silver-polymetallic intercepts in the Perseguida and Meteysaca vein and adjacent vein splays, including:
- 1.20m @ 331.67 g/t Ag, 1.74% Pb, 3.16% Zn, 0.31% Cu, and 1.34 g/t Au in the Perseguida vein, in drill hole SMR-60-22-PER, and
- 0.60m @ 281.00 g/t Ag, 1.60% Pb, 5.00% Zn, 0.48% Cu, and 0.32 g/t Au in the Meteysaca vein, in the same hole SMR-60-22-PER
- 0.50m @ 302.00 g/t Ag, 1.70% Pb, 2.60% Zn, 0.17% Cu, and 1.31 g/t Au, in the Perseguida vein, in hole SMR-64-22-PER
The northwest-southeast striking Perseguida vein system, located about 200 m northeast and subparallel to the Meteysaca vein, has seen limited underground exploitation from four mine levels, predominantly above the 560 m-level. Four exploratory bore holes were designed to investigate the continuity and mineralization of the northwestern part of the Perseguida vein, approximately 100 to 150 m below the lowest historic mine development. The mineralized structure has been encountered in all holes, reaching thicknesses between 0.30 and 1.25 m. The brecciated Perseguida vein is composed of silver sulpho-salts, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, in gangue material including quartz, pyrite, and rhodochrosite.
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Fig.1: Plan view of underground drilling program at the Reliquias silver mine, showing traces of drill holes completed in 2022 (in blue). The four holes reported in this release are labelled and highlighted in bold green lines. Additionally, underground workings, main mineralized veins, and drill platforms are displayed. Inset map shows Reliquias property block with locations of both silver mines and the processing plant.
The following table shows the results of mineralized intercepts encountered in the drill holes reported in this news release in more detail.
Table 1: Weighted assay results of four drill holes testing the Perseguida vein. Intervals are downhole drilled core intervals. Drilling data to date is insufficient to determine true width of mineralization. The last column of the table indicates whether a drill intercept corresponds to one of the principal veins or to a vein splay.
Fig.2: Photo of mineralized interval of drill core, Perseguida vein, hole SMR-060-22-PER, 319.30 – 319.45 m depth. Vein interval is composed of several generations of grey and milky white quartz, with irregular pods and fine veinlets of silver sulpho-salts, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. Late rhodochrosite with interspersed brown iron oxides is also visible.
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Silver Mountain's subsidiary Sociedad Minera Reliquias S.A.C. owns 100% of its concessions and holds more than 36,000 hectares in the district of Castrovirreyna, Huancavelica,
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All drill holes are diamond core holes with HQ or NQ core diameters. Drill core is collected at the underground drill site where recovery measurements are taken before the core is transported by truck to the core logging facility at the Caudalosa Grande mine camp, where it is photographed and geologically logged. The core is then cut in half with a diamond saw blade with half the sample retained in the core box for future reference and the other half placed into a pre-labelled plastic bag, sealed with a plastic zip tie, and identified with a unique sample number. The core is typically sampled over a 1-2 metre sample interval unless the geologist determines the presence of an important geological contact. The bagged samples are then stored in a secure area pending shipment to a certified laboratory sample preparation facility. Samples are sent by batch to the ALS laboratory in
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