Location:
The Carol Project is located in southern Sonora State, 20 km north of the city of Alamos in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental belt. The Carol property is approximately 5km north of the Piedras Verdes porphyry copper mine that has a reported proven and probable reserve of 191 million tonnes grading 0.36% copper.
Deposit Model:
Copper-silver-zinc-gold skarn.
Ownership:
100% Yale Resources Ltd.
Size:
Six mining claims that cover 758.14 hectares (7.6 km² or 1873 acres)
Status:
The Carol Project is currently available for option.
Summary:
The Carol Project is a drill-ready exploration project with initial targets generated from multiple field seasons. Work completed to date consists of detailed geological mapping, soil geochemistry, rock chip sampling, and trenching.
Although the project is drill-ready, further exploration of the Carol Project could include geophysical surves over mineralized targets defined by trenching.
Geology:
The Carol property hosts two skarn zones: Balde South and Balde North. The Balde South measures approximately 1,100 metres long and 400 metres wide, while the Balde North, located 800 metres away, measures approximately 300 metres by 800 metres. Between the two is the La Escondida zone, which appears to be a mineralized structure that may be associated with the formation of the skarns.
The oldest rocks within the property area are fine grained metasediments of Permian - Carboniferous age. These rocks have been intruded by early Tertiary granodiorite, and so the metasediments occur as roof pendants within the granodiorite. The metasediments have locally been altered to skarn or hornfels along the intrusive contact. Skarns within the property likely formed as a result of infiltration metasomatism involving magmatic hydrothermal fluids from the nearby granodiorite stock.
Results:
Trenching has shown the property to contain multiple targets with average grades greater than 1% copper and 1% zinc.
Highlights from the trenching program are:
- 24.0 m grading 1.20 % Cu and 2.24 % Zn
- 10.0 m grading 2.19 % Cu, 1.07 % Zn, 18.26 g/t Ag and 0.91 g/t Au
- 22.0 m grading 1.15 % Cu, 0.61 % Zn, and 28.57 g/t Ag
- 22.0 m grading 0.54 % Cu and 4.45 % Zn
- 16.5 m grading 1.10 % Cu and 2.45 % Zn
Click here see details of each trench.
Details of the 17 trenches at Carol
Each of the seventeen trenches revealed continuously mineralized intervals over widths between 4 and 48 metres. Of the 232 samples taken 185 were taken within skarn with each sample being two metres in length. Within the trenches there were many high grade sections. The highest copper assay received was 7.67 % and 38 samples returned greater than 1% copper. The highest zinc assay received was 15.30 % and 62 samples returned greater than 1% zinc. The highest gold assay received was 2.24 g/t (La Escondida) and 30 samples returned greater than 0.3 g/t gold.
In several locations deeper than expected overburden did not allow for the sampling of the underlying bedrock as the trenches were dug by hand, hence several of the zones remain open in at least one direction. This is significant in that there is the potential, with additional trenching, to show mineralization over much wider widths.
Averages from all sampling are shown in the table below.
| |
|
Average |
|
| |
width
(m) |
Cu
(%) |
Zn
(%) |
Ag
(g/t) |
Au
(g/t) |
Comments |
| Blade South |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BS - 1 |
22.0 |
0.54 |
4.45 |
6.69 |
0.14 |
Open to the west and east |
| including |
8.0 |
1.21 |
2.19 |
7.45 |
0.19 |
|
| BS - 2 |
16.5 |
1.10 |
2.45 |
8.42 |
0.11 |
Open to the east |
| BS - 3 |
8.0 |
1.44 |
0.42 |
5.98 |
0.11 |
|
| BS - 4 |
8.0 |
0.87 |
5.97 |
37.00 |
0.11 |
|
| including |
4.0 |
1.67 |
11.56 |
68.25 |
0.21 |
|
| BS - 5 |
4.0 |
0.65 |
0.02 |
6.40 |
0.23 |
Open to the west |
| BS - 6 |
6.0 |
1.36 |
7.49 |
13.20 |
0.49 |
Open to the west and east |
| BS - 7 |
12.0 |
0.95 |
0.02 |
5.45 |
0.27 |
|
| BS - 8 |
48.0 |
0.86 |
0.37 |
16.57 |
0.09 |
Open to the east |
| including |
4.0 |
3.04 |
0.75 |
12.20 |
0.30 |
|
| and including |
22.0 |
1.15 |
0.61 |
28.57 |
0.05 |
Open to the east |
| BS - 9 |
24.0 |
1.20 |
2.24 |
8.07 |
0.18 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
4.0 |
1.56 |
1.09 |
4.70 |
0.15 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
6.0 |
0.32 |
0.63 |
3.40 |
0.10 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
4.0 |
0.25 |
0.63 |
10.25 |
0.02 |
Open to the west and east |
| BS - 10 |
13.0 |
0.05 |
0.65 |
2.81 |
0.02 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
18.0 |
0.12 |
2.01 |
17.16 |
0.05 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
6.0 |
0.02 |
4.85 |
22.97 |
0.05 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
6.0 |
0.08 |
1.39 |
23.27 |
0.03 |
Open to the west and east |
| BS - 11 |
4.0 |
0.28 |
0.80 |
17.25 |
0.15 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
14.0 |
0.24 |
0.75 |
10.31 |
0.18 |
Open to the west and east |
| BS - 12 |
2.0 |
0.00 |
0.02 |
1.5 |
1.41 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
20.0 |
0.56 |
0.05 |
3.32 |
0.66 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
6.0 |
0.16 |
0.02 |
2.77 |
0.43 |
Open to the west and east |
| Blade North |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BN - 1 |
10.0 |
0.59 |
0.87 |
2.72 |
0.10 |
Open to the west and east |
| and |
10.0 |
0.35 |
1.40 |
3.84 |
0.12 |
Open to the west |
| BN - 2 |
16.0 |
0.19 |
1.45 |
3.54 |
0.04 |
Open to the east |
| and |
2.0 |
1.86 |
3.50 |
16.2 |
0.154 |
Open to the west and east |
| BN - 3 |
6.0 |
0.42 |
0.20 |
4.20 |
0.19 |
Open to the west |
| BN - 4 |
4.0 |
0.64 |
0.53 |
4.80 |
0.15 |
Open to the west |
| BN - 5 |
6.0 |
1.51 |
2.00 |
9.03 |
0.18 |
Open to the west and east |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| La Escondida |
10.0 |
2.19 |
1.07 |
18.26 |
0.91 |
|
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Ian Foreman, P.Geo., is Yale Resources' Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, for the Carol Property.
