(Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jan.2025) — Luca Mining Corp. started exploration drilling at the Campo Morado mine project in Guerrero State, Mexico.
Campo Morado hosts several polymetallic massive sulphide deposits containing zinc, copper, gold, silver, and lead mineralization within a highly prospective land package totaling over 121km2 within the Guerrero Gold Belt, Luca announced 14 Jan. 2025 in an official statement.
This current drill campaign represents the first meaningful exploration program carried out on the property since 2014 and is designed to target the addition of mineral resources to the near and medium term mine plan at Campo Morado, Luca said.
Luca plans up to 5,000m of underground diamond drilling from approximately 25 holes during this first phase of exploration activities. This program’s primary target is the definition of additional mineral resources from under-drilled zones proximal to existing underground production areas as well as the identification of mineralization within previously untested areas with high potential for the discovery of new mineral resources. A surface drill program that will test portions of the concessions outside of the current mine workings and begin to unlock the district-scale potential of this rapidly developing mineral camp is expected to begin later in the first-quarter 2025.
Previous exploration at Campo Morado has combined to produce an extensive set of high-quality, proprietary geological data, including over 600,000m of underground and surface drilling, property wide geologic/structural mapping, approximately 30,000 geochemical soil samples, and a variety of airborne and ground-based geophysical surveys (including gravity, electromagnetics, and induced polarization).
Analyses of these geophysical survey datasets, particularly gravity, resulted directly in the discovery and definition of mineral resources on the property and will continue to guide all exploration initiatives; moreover, this large geophysical dataset is currently being compiled, cleaned and reinterpreted by Luca in an effort to prioritize the greater than 38 exploration targets identified to date across the property. Production from Campo Morado has been exclusively from 5 deposits; G9, El Largo, Reforma, Naranjo and El Rey.
“Like many established VMS systems around the world, Campo Morado has significant growth potential, and I am excited to be embarking on these first exploration efforts on the property in many years,” Luca VP exploration Paul Gray said in the statement. “My aim for this, and all future drill programs, is to identify additional near-mine mineralization that can be quickly added to the mine plan at Campo Morado; leverage the extensive historical data and generate new information through drilling and other exploration tools to extend the mine life and expand resources, and; eventually, demonstrate the true district-scale potential at Campo Morado by targeting high-impact exploration zones further from the mine site. This 2025 drill program represents a pivotal moment for Luca, the first step in the realization of these initiatives and Luca looks forward to seeing the results from this, and all future exploration programs.”
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