Sable Resources Completes Ground Geophysical Surveys and Initiates First Drill Test on Vinata Project.
Sable Resources Completes Ground
Geophysical Surveys and Initiates First Drill
Test on Vinata Project.
TORONTO
,
Oct. 9, 2019
/CNW/ - Sable Resources (TSX.V: SAE) (the "Company" or "Sable") is
pleased to announce that the first drill test will begin this week at its 100% owned Vinata Project.
The initial program consists of a minimum of
2000m
of core drilling to test the outcropping upper
level epithermal veins and their projected extension under shallow quaternary gravel. This Phase 1
drill program will be expanded should positive results warrant additional drilling.
This is the first ever drilling campaign to be performed at the Vinata epithermal project and it is
designed to test for high-grade precious metal horizons approximately 200 metres below anomalous
surface samples.
Two structurally controlled upper level epithermal anomalous areas have been recognized at the
project, Vinata Norte and Vinata Sur. Company geologists identified low-temperature silica textures
and hydrothermal breccias combined with anomalous Au, Ag, As, Sb, Hg, Mn, Ba, and Mo values
indicating a position in the upper levels of an epithermal system. Results from the program will be
released as they are received over the next few months.
As part of the preparation for the upcoming drilling campaign, the company completed 170 km of
GroundMag and
8950m
of CSAMT surveys distributed in 9 lines, showing coincident geophysical
anomalies with the outcropping mineral occurrences.
The CSAMT survey was conducted by Géophysique TMC, preliminary results show high angle
resistivity features coincident with the mapped fault-veins and breccias at Vinata Norte and Vinata
Sur.
The GroundMag survey was conducted along East – West lines with
200m
of separation. The data
was processed and interpreted by a geophysicist consultant in
Mexico
. The magnetic data at Vinata
Norte show the sub-outcropping rhyolitic intrusion as a magnetic high feature clearly contrasting with
the surrounding volcanic and sedimentary sequence. The outcropping NNE epithermal vein system,
which represents the main target at the project appears coincident with a MagLow running on the
western margin of the rhyolite intrusion for over 3 km in strike (Figure 1). Some stratigraphic
features are also defined on the Mag sections; including a well-defined MagLow feature (Figure 2)
observed at the contact between the rhyolite intrusion and the interpreted limestones that underlie
the upper volcanic sequence; this contact constitutes an additional potential target zone. At Vinata
Sur the outcropping faults and breccias containing Fe-Mn oxides and associated Mn, Ba, Sb, As,
Mo, Zn anomalies, hosted by volcanic rocks, are coincident with an elliptical shape NS oriented
MagLow (Figure 1).
"The data provided by the recent geophysical surveys confirm the quality of the targets and is
helping us to better define the planning of the upcoming drill test at Vinata" commented
Ruben
Padilla
, Sable's VP of exploration.
Figure 1. First Vertical Derivative showing the location of the outcropping vein system at Vinata
Norte, the Fe-Mn oxides old workings at Vinata Sur, and their coincident MagLows. (CNW
Group/Sable Resources Ltd.)
Figure 2. East – West magnetic section from Vinata Norte, showing the position of the subsurface
expression of the outcropping epithermal veins and the NS striking MagLow coinciding with
interpreted western margin of rhyolitic intrusion. (CNW Group/Sable Resources Ltd.)
ABOUT THE VINATA PROJECT
The Vinata project is located in the Municipality of Chihuahua,
State of Chihuahua
, Mexico, 50 km
south of the city of Chihuahua. The Vinata Project is located along possible extensions of known
important mineral belts of northern
Mexico
including base metal CRD deposits as
Santa Eulalia
(50km NE of Vinata) and
Naica
(75km SE of Vinata), and the polymetallic vein system of the new
discovery of Sunshine Silver Corp.'s Los Gatos Project, located 75 km SW of Vinata.
Vinata is located on the west edge of a range of hills called the Sierra Pastorias with low relief at an
altitude of between
1,600 m
and
1,700 m
above sea level, and just east of a broad flat valley. The
terrain around Vinata has low relief, where two mineralized areas have been identified, Vinata Norte
and Vinata Sur, which are separated by and area of approximately
4000m
covered by shallow
quaternary gravels.
No historical mine workings exist at Vinata Norte. And only a few, small, historic mine workings exist
in the area of Vinata Sur, where waste dumps are very small, and there is no knowledge or evidence
of past processing plants or tailings.
The project was initially identified via stream sediment follow up. At Vinata Norte the system consists
of a series of NNE oriented quartz veins that outcrop along a strike length of
1,150m
cutting rhyolite
tuffs and a volcanic dome that overlies and cut Cretaceous limestone. Quartz vein float extends
additional
450m
to the southeast and for more than
1000m
toward the NW. The system consists of
multiple sub-parallel veins and stockwork zones with epithermal textures over a width of between
15m
and
170m
. Individual veins vary in width from <
1m
up to about
12m
with anomalous Au, Sb, As,
and Hg values in rock samples.
At Vinata Sur, outcropping subhorizontal volcanic rocks are cut by NW oriented hydrothermal
breccias and faults containing abundant Mn and Fe oxides. Historical artisanal mine workings
followed the Mn-Fe oxidized structures, that in addition of high Mn-Fe values are anomalous in Sb,
As, Ba, Mo, and Zn.
ABOUT SABLE RESOURCES LTD.
Sable is a well-funded junior grassroots explorer focused on the discovery of new precious metal
projects through systematic exploration in endowed terranes located in favorable, established mining
jurisdictions. Sables' main focus is developing their large portfolio of new greenfields projects to
resource stage utilizing its Upper Level Epithermal Strategy. Sable is actively exploring the Margarita
silver project in Chihuahua, discovered by the company in 2018; the Mexico Regional Program
(1.16Mha in application, 39,000ha titled) incorporating the Vinata and El Escarpe projects; the San
Juan Regional Program (58,000ha) incorporating the Don Julio Project in
San Juan Province
,
Argentina
; and the Scorpius project in Ayacucho,
Peru
.
Qualified Person
Luis Arteaga M.Sc.
P.Geo. Exploration Manager for Sable Resources and the Company's Qualified
Person as defined by NI 43-101 has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news
release.
We seek safe harbor
SOURCE
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Tom Obradovich, President & CEO, [email protected], Tel (416)
985-7140 Or visit sableresources.com
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