The non-correlating footwall zone comprises 40.57m assaying 105g/t silver equivalent – or 86g/t silver and 0.2g/t gold from 176.23m. The interval includes 2.51m at 226g/t silver equivalent – or 175g/t silver and 0.7g/t gold from 190.85m. It also includes 4.47m at 238g/t silver equivalent – or 217g/t silver and 0.3g/t gold from 210.73m.
A separate deeper zone gave up 1.01m at 541g/t silver equivalent – or 398g/t silver and 1.9g/t gold from 318.54m.
Advanceโs diamond drilling is continuing and management is awaiting results for a further three holes completed to date, which were put in to evaluate significant down-dip extensions of the known mineralisation.
The pending results and those from remaining holes to be drilled could significantly increase the scale of the currently known high-grade mineralisation.
Advance has decided to orient its drill core on the rig site to get a better and more immediate handle on structures and to validate existing geological interpretations.
The company is also reviewing its QA/QC data validation and modelling needs and methods in preparation for future JORC-compliant resource estimations, which may include assaying of historical core archived from work by the projectโs previous owners.
The Pertenencia vein has been drilled along a strike distance of about 360m and to a depth of about 300m. It is currently interpreted as open along strike in both directions and below the maximum depth of drilling to date.
The company is awaiting the results of what appears to be deepest hole so far put into the vein system, which was drilled within the current program. The hole pierces the vein at a depth of about 240m below surface and about 76m below the lower limit of the previous resource estimate.
No doubt, Advance will be pinning a lot of hope on the results this particular hole throws up.
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