Locatión
The Los Canelos Auriferous Project is located in the IV Region of Coquimbo, Chile, in a straight line 230 km north of
Santiago city, and 150 km southeast of La Serena city and Puerto de Coquimbo. Closer is Combarbalá, a small distant
town in a straight line 20 km north-east of the project, and also the city of Illapel, located 30 km southwest of the project,
at an average altitude of 1,500 m. s.n.m. The mining property consists of 2 measurements (140 Hc).
The mineralization of Au is found in vetiform bodies of variable widths between 0.3 and 3m, with vein lengths that can
reach several hundred meters. The gangue is calcite, quartz, iron oxides (hematite and / or specularite) and sericite.
There is also mineralization of chalcopyrite and pyrite associated with veins, but it has been scarcely exploited. The
grades of Au are variable, fluctuating between 1 and 30 g/t, although sometimes they exceeded 1000 g/t.
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Geology
The mineralization of the project is hosted in the
contact between the Quebrada Marquesa
Formation, and an intrusive stock of the San
Lorenzo Intrusive Unit (monzodiorite -
granodiorite). The Quebrada Marquesa Formation
is represented by the Member El Espino, of Lower
Cretaceous age, composed of a sequence of very
well stratified marine sedimentary rocks
(limestones and gray shales), affected by strong
metasomatism of silica, albite, actinolite and pyrit,
in part strong magnetite.
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In conclusion, it can be pointed out that the auriferous economic mineralization is housed in 2 different types of rocks:
1.- Mineralization in sedimentary rocks (corneous rocks, protolito calcareous sedimentary rocks of the Quebrada
Marquesa Formation, El Espino Member): with three types of mineralization
a) Mineralization in hydrothermal vents, with grades up to 17 g/t Au with high content of sericite, hematite and Py;
b) Vein structures (feeders), of NE and NS spatial attitude, with grades up to 54 g/t Au;
2.- Mineralization in granodioritic stock, with stockwork belt with Qz-Py-Au veinlets, and strong sericitic alteration, with
an average width of 100 m and a length greater than 1,000m.
The area of this project is located 2.5 km east of the El Espino Project (IOCG), of Pucobre, which have mineral resources
of (Measured + indicated) of 145Mt @ 0.55% Cu, 0.22 g/t Au (0,7% EqCu).
According to what has been analyzed in this study, a hypothetical potential higher than 1.5 million ounces of gold can be
estimated for the Los Canelos Gold Project. Where there would be in belt of intrusive granodioritic approx. > 40,000,000
ton @ 1 - 2 g/t Au. And in the area of hydrothermal breccias in sedimentary rocks there would be a minimum> 1,500,000
ton @ 4 - 6 g/t Au. The resources in veins or mantles are not considered in this basic and hypothetical estimation, which
can generate in depth good possibilities of finding greater presence of copper.
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