(SSR Mining, 27.Mar.2023) — SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ/TSX: SSRM, ASX: SSR) announced results from 48 drill holes completed at the Puna project for the period of August to December 2022.
Puna includes the Pirquitas and Chinchillas properties, both located in the Jujuy Province of northern Argentina (see Figure 1 within download). Chinchillas is an open pit silver-lead-zinc mine and is the current source of the ore processed at the Pirquitas processing plant, located approximately 42 kilometers southwest of the Chinchillas property.
The 2022 exploration program focused on resource expansion, discovery and reconciliation drilling at Chinchillas and was the first exploration drilling completed at the property since 2016. Of the 48 holes reported, 27 targeted extensions of the Chinchillas mineralization to the east, northeast and at depth. Drilling also intersected mineralization at the Melina zone and at Socavon Del Diablo, two separate targets located adjacent to existing Chinchillas infrastructure that host potential to complement the ore currently mined from the main Chinchillas deposit. Additionally, two drill holes were completed at the Cortaderas target on the Pirquitas property.
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