Camino Identifies Diana Zone as New Satellite Drilling Target at the Los Chapitos Project, Peru; Surface Channel Samples of 1.05% Copper over 56 Meters
Camino Identifies Diana Zone as New Satellite Drilling Target at
the Los Chapitos Project, Peru;
Surface Channel Samples of 1.05% Copper over 56 Meters
Vancouver, February 8, 2023 – Camino Corp. (TSXV: COR) (OTC: CAMZF) (WKN: A116E1) (“Camino”
or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its field work and geological modeling has identified
the Diana Zone as a new drilling target at the Los Chapitos c opper project (“Los Chapitos” or “the
Project”) in Peru. Previous channel sampling over the Diana Zone yielded 1.05% total copper and 14
ppm silver over 56m . The Diana Zone appears stratigraphically related to recently discovered
oxidized copper mineralization at the Lourdes Zone that was drilled in 2022 with similar copper
grades and intercepts (see news release dated July 6, 2022). A video showing the oxidized copper
exposure at the surface of Diana can be seen here. The Diana Zone is located approximately 1.5 km
northeast of Lourdes and 2.2 km northwest of Camino’s main copper discovery zone at Adriana.
Highlights:
• 1.05% total copper and 14 ppm silver over 56 metres in channel sample along azimuth
130°, samples name: “X061522 to X061550” (#29 samples) at Diana Zone with no prior
drilling.
• An EIA drilling permit expansion expected in Q2 2023 to open 6,012 hectares for drilling.
“We are stepping out by several kilometers to identify satellite copper oxide deposits starting at the
high-grade oxidized copper outcrop at Diana. Diana has surface channel samples of 1.05% Copper
(Cu) and 14 ppm Ag over 56 metres with similar high -grade copper to our successful drilling
campaign in 2022 where we intercepted 55.5 metres of 0.93% Cu and 6.71 ppm Ag (DCH-097) from
surface at the Lourdes discovery”, said Jay Chmelauskas, CEO of Camino Corp. “Our EIA drilling
permit expansion is expected in Q2, which will expand our current EIA to 6,012 hectares, allowing
us to target a larger and broader copper system over several kilometers, including three mineralized
fault systems along the Diva, Atajo, and now Lagunillas faults. Our geological model targets buried
porous geology that has the potential to host additional copper mantos previously found in
weathered oxidized copper outcrops like Diana.”
Head of Peru exploration, Felix Cornelio said, "Diana is located on the regional Lagunillas fault
structure that runs parallel to our main copper mineralized controlling structure, the Diva fault. This
is another mineralized system next to a regional fault with the same stratabound geology as the
discoveries at Adriana and Lourdes. The Diana prospect and the Lourdes-Condori area provide the
geological conditions for discovering more and possibly significant mineralized copper mantos".
A zonation in the elements sodium and potassium that are related to the calco-sodic metasomatism
(albitization) and potassium Feldspar-silica, show the same geological conditions in the new target
areas as Adriana. The most important phase, which is the copper mineralization episode, is exposed
in the Lourdes feeder. Evidence of additional copper on surface and geological modelling supports
multiple satellite mantos targets in this new area (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Plan map of exploration targets at Los Chapitos.
The relationship between the Adriana discovery and the Lourdes-Condori satellite target is related
to the Diva Trend fault system, which aligns the silicified bodies identified as Olga and the Condori
Silica Cap. The Silica Cap is a potential trap for other buried copper mantos that have not been
exposed by weathering (see Figure 2).
Geological modelling shows evidence that the Molybdenum ( Mo) and Cobalt ( Co) anomalies
detected at Gallinazo, Gorro, and Abrahancillo in dioritic bodies are closely related to the Diva Trend
system and demonstrate geological similarities to the deep parts of the Adriana model.
Figure 2. SW-NE section showing the targets from Abrahancillo to Diana projecting stratabound copper
mantos targets.
Figure 3. Location map of Los Chapitos Project claims.
About Camino Corporation
Camino is a discovery and development stage copper exploration company. The Company is focused
on advancing its high -grade Los Chapitos copper project located in Peru through to resource
delineation and to add new discoveries. Cami no has also permitted the Maria Cecilia copper
porphyry project for a planned exploration drilling program. In addition, the Company has increased
its land position at its copper and silver Plata Dorada project. The Company seeks to acquire a
portfolio of advanced copper assets that have the potential to deliver copper into an electrifying
copper intensive global economy. For more information, please refer to Camino’s website at
www.caminocorp.com.
Jose A. Bassan, MSc. Geologist, an independent geologist FAusIMM (CP) 227922, a qualified person
as defined by National Instrument 43 -101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects , has
reviewed and approved the technical contents of this document. Mr. Bassan has reviewed and
verified relevant data supporting the technical disclosure, including sampling and analytical test
data.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD For further information, please contact:
/S/ “Jay Chmelauskas” Camino Investor Relations
President and CEO [email protected]
Tel: (604) 493-2058
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release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements: Certain disclosures in this release
constitute forward-looking information. In making the forward -looking disclosures in this release,
the Company has applied certain factors and assumptions that are based on the Company’s current
beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the
Company. Forward-looking information in the release includes the prospectivity of future exploration
work at Los Chapitos and the receipt of new exploration permits. Although the Company considers
these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove
to be incorrect, and the forward -looking information in this release is subject to numerous risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied in such forward -looking information. Such risk factors include, among others,
that actual results of the Company’ s exploration activities will be different than those expected by
management, that the Company will be unable to obtain or will experience delays in obtaining any
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