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Dark Horse Resources Demonstrates Continuation of Cachi Gold Mineralisation

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Dark Horse Resources (ASX: DHR) has identified a further anomalous gold prospect at the company’s Cachi gold project in Argentina.

Dark Horse Resources identified the new prospect, named El Camino, from assays results from recent rock chip sampling, bringing the total number of prospects to fifteen in the southern half of the Cachi tenement.

The company explained the El Camino prospect is another high potential mineralised structure close to the south-eastern border of the caldera.

Fourteen rock chip samples were collected from over 900m of vein subcrop that returned anomalous gold and arsenic values averaging 0.4 grams per tonne gold and 540g/t arsenic, with maximum values of 1.1g/t gold, and 982g/t arsenic.

“This association of gold with high arsenic values appears to place EL Camino, along with Aurora, Vetas Cachi and Valiente, near the top of the mineralised epithermal system opening potential for high-grade gold discoveries with drilling,” Dark Horse Resources said in its ASX announcement.

 

Website: www.darkhorseresources.com.au

 

Dark Horse Resources Confirms High Grades at Las Opeñas Gold Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Dark Horse Resources (ASX: DHR) has completed detailed mapping and a diamond‐sawn rock channel sampling program at the company’s Las Opeñas gold project in Argentina.

Dark Horse Resources declared the recent work had confirmed widespread high-grade zones of gold and silver.

The channel sampling consisted thirty‐four channel samples cut over a two-kilometre strike length of the Presagio mineralized zone, and nine samples cut over the Vultur mineralized zone.

Of these, seventeen produced gold assays in excess of one gram per tonne and another five of gold grades in excess of 5g/t.

The highest gold grade was 54g/t and the highest silver grade was 739g/t.

Best sample results returned with the highest gold grades included:

0.4m at 54.2g/t gold, 83g/t silver
0.8m at 17.9g/t gold, 225g/t silver
0.7m at 10.4g/t gold, 263g/t silver
1.0m at 7.2g/t gold, 271g/t silver
0.8m at 7.7g/t gold, 336g/t silver
0.8m at 4.1g/t gold, 384g/t silver
1m at 2.5g/t gold, 597g/t silver

Before undertaking the detailed mapping and surface exploration, Dark Horse had carried out a first phase drilling program in March-April this year that identified five mineralised vein systems at Las Opeñas, with the Presagio vein target showing the most promising results.

Detailed mapping of the Presagio vein system identified the existence of an altered corridor of more than 2.5km in length, including a 1km long vein‐breccia system containing high gold‐silver grades with massive sulfides, located to the west of a drillhole area investigated during the March‐April 2019 drilling program.

Dark Horse considers the exploration results indicate gold and silver mineralisation is most prevalent where northeast and northwest faults intersect, which it acknowledged to be is common at Las Opeñas.

“The gold‐silver mineralisation is distributed throughout the system in parallel, on‐echelon structures,” Dark Horse Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“A hypothetical geological model of Presagio has been interpreted by the company’s geoscientist team and shows the target mineralisation at depth.

“Positive results of this discovery will be used to target further drilling, which is planned to commence in the last quarter of 2019 following the Argentinean winter.”

 

Website: www.darkhorseresources.com.au

 

Dark Horse Resources Progresses Argentine Gold Projects

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Dark Horse Resources (ASX: DHR) ecently copleted work on the company’s two major gold projects in Argentina: Las Opeñas in San Juan and Cachi in Santa Cruz.

Dark Horse Resources completed a first phase drilling program at Las Opeñas, resulting in the confirmation of some high-grade mineralised zones to moderate depths from surface and providing justification for the company to proceed to a second phase of drilling.

Other work involved mapping and geophysical programs carried out over some of the mineralised Cachi targets and have provided drill targets for planned drilling later in 2019 following the winter season.

Dark Horse undertook a 17-hole program at Las Opeñas testing known, but previously undrilled, high-grade gold, silver and base metal rich quartz veins discovered during surface mapping and sampling by previous owners.

The previous companies did not test these veins but focused drilling on an adjacent bulk tonnage, low-grade phreatomagmatic breccia target.

Most of the best intersections achieved in the recent drilling were made below the weathered, supergene zone, in primary mineralisation showing that grade persists at depth.

At the Chaci property in Santa Cruz Dark Horse completed mapping, ground magnetic, Induced Polarisation (IP) and rock‐chip sampling programs.

Although it is yet to receive all assay results, the company indicated it had sufficient results from the current program and prior programs to enable it to identify nine mineralised targets within the Cachi property, the five mains ones being Vetas Cachi, Morena, Vetas NW, Patricia and Puma.

Some of these targets have been prioritised for further work to assist with designing a drilling program, planned to commence following winter in the last quarter of 2019.

 

Website: www.darkhorseresources.com.au