Location Salta Province, Argentina
Land Area 830 hectares
Property Description Gold-silver-copper prospect located near First Quantum’s Taca Taca project
Metals Gold, copper
Ownership Option to acquire 51% from Cascadero Minerals Corp.
Project Stage Exploration
Current Activities & Work Announced results from initial ~2,500m drill program, Jan. 19, 2022
Permitting Drill permit received
Sarita Este is a gold-silver-copper exploration project located in northwest Salta Province, Argentina, near First Quantum’s Taca Taca project. Sarita Este sits at elevations between 3,550-3,750 meters above sea level. We are targeting a copper porphyry system with some similarities to Taca Taca in the northeast portion of the Sarita Este claim at the Kachi target and a high sulfidation gold-silver system in the southern portion of the concession at the Sico target.
Golden Minerals holds an option to acquire 51% of the Sarita Este concession from Cascadero Minerals Corporation. The agreement was signed in December 2019 and calls for Golden to spend at least $0.3 million in exploration expenditures and complete a 2,000 meter drill program by the end of 2021, another $0.5 million by the end of 2022, and another approximately $1.6 million by 2023 for a total $2.5 million.
We completed a 2518-meter initial core drilling program (10 holes) on the Sarita Este property and announced those results in January 2022.
Sico and Ari Saru Targets
Six holes totaling 1,020 meters were drilled exploring a series of gold-bearing epithermal structures identified by surface mapping and sampling conducted in 2020 that returned grades up to 162 g/t Au at surface. The drill holes intersected multiple wide zones of near-surface oxide-gold mineralization, indicating the area has the potential to host a large bulk tonnage gold deposit. New permits have been submitted for trenching and additional drilling that the Company plans to complete during a 2022 field campaign.
Significant results drilled at ‘Sico’ and ‘Ari Saru’ epithermal gold targets:
Kachi Target
The Kachi target is located in the northern corner of the property where surface mapping and sampling has identified porphyry copper-style mineralization. The Company completed four holes totaling 1,498 meters exploring this target and the majority of the holes encountered wide zones of low-grade copper mineralization, suggesting that they intersected the periphery of a potentially large porphyry copper deposit.
Significant results drilled at ‘Kachi’ porphyry copper target:
Sarita Este Drilling Results, reported January 19, 2022