PROJECTS - Don Sixto (La Cabeza)
Regional
Work to date at the Don Sixto Gold Project has concentrated on the principal prospects with resource definition drilling and associated drilling to delineate extensions within the known zones all occurring essentially within a 2km x 2km area. Discovery drilling via RAB will initially extend this detailed area of investigation in the sand covered areas to 2.5km x 2.5km. As can be seen from the following Landsat satellite image the Don Sixto known alteration zone actually encompasses an approximate 4km x 6km area.
Landsat satellite image showing Don Sixto's alteration zone
Exeter presently controls an approximate 20km x 30km area surrounding the Don Sixto Gold Project, as displayed on the following map.
Landsat satellite image showing Exeter's tenement holdings in the Don Sixto district
The initial phase for searching the district for additional Don Sixto-style gold mineralisation comprised a detailed compilation project of all of the existing datasets along with a stream sediment sampling orientation program about the Don Sixto Gold Project itself during 2005. During 2006 all of the Exeter tenements will be investigated initially via a regional stream sediment program, and then detailed ground follow-up as required.
Brazo Oeste Prospect
Approximately six kilometers northwest of the main Don Sixto project, wide-spaced soil geochemical sampling has identified a large discrete arsenic geochemical "LAG" anomaly, over approximately 1200m x 250m, of +50ppm As (with a maximum value of 589ppm As). Prospecting within the largely soil covered area has located epithermal quartz float assaying up to 3.2 g/t gold. This target will initially be evaluated by "fences" of RC drill holes during 2006.
Geologists examine sub-outcrop on the Brazo Oeste zone at the Agua Nueva prospect, located 6km NE of Don Sixto. A large gold geochemical "LAG" anomaly lies 2 km in the distance under cover
With the refining of the geological models and interpreted controls on gold mineralisation at the Don Sixto Gold Project itself, Exeter is improving its chances of discovering additional mineralisation outside of the known prospects.
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