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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Condor Gold Plc | LSE:CNR | London | Ordinary Share | GB00B8225591 | ORD 0.1P |
| Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.50 | 1.68% | 30.25 | 30.00 | 30.50 | 30.25 | 29.75 | 29.75 | 271,373 | 15:12:33 |
| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Ores | 0 | -2.53M | -0.0140 | -21.61 | 54.69M |
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RNS Number : 0946B
Condor Gold PLC
31 March 2017
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31(st) March 2017
Condor Gold plc
('Condor', 'Condor Gold' or 'the Company')
2017 Drilling Programme
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http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0946B_1-2017-3-30.pdf
Condor Gold (AIM: CNR) is pleased to announce that, following a Placing which raised GBP5.242 million (See RNS dated 20(th) February 2017), work is now underway on a 10,000 m drilling programme for 2017 at the La India Project, Nicaragua (the "La India Project"). This will have dual objectives, being (i) resource expansion- to increase the existing mineral resource (18 Mt at 4.0 g/t Au for 2.31 Moz gold) over the La India Project, and (ii) scout drilling, which hopes to identify new resources hosted in additional veins sets on the 313 km(2) Project and demonstrate a major Gold District.
Resource Expansion
In accordance with the first objective, Condor has completed approximately 360 m of a 2,000 m drilling programme, which has commenced on the Mestiza Vein Set ('Mestiza'). This will test a historic Soviet mineral resource. If successful, it is expected that further drilling of about 4,000 m would be needed to convert the majority of the Soviet mineral resource to a NI 43-101-compliant Inferred Mineral Resource. This is significant for four reasons:
1. Soviet-backed drilling in 1991 estimated a Soviet-style mineral resource of 2,392 kt at 10.2 g/t gold for 785,694 oz gold at Mestiza (Table 2). Condor has used the Soviet data, and subsequent drilling undertaken by Canadian companies, to plan a drill programme to convert the Soviet resource to Western standards.
2. Mestiza already hosts a NI 43-101-compliant mineral resource of 1,490 kt at 7.47 g/t for 333,000 oz gold (Table 1). However, this is excluded from the current Pre-Feasibility Study and Preliminary Economic Assessments at La India Project.
3. There is a high possibility of bringing additional high grade gold from Mestiza into a future mine plan, feeding a centralised processing plant.
4. The current 2,000 m drill programme is relatively shallow, with 18 drill holes mostly less than 100 m. Furthermore, the existing resource is open along strike in both directions and at depth. The shallow nature of the resource suggests it could be added early on to the mine plan, enhancing the production profile and economics of the Project.
Table 1 Mestiza Vein Set NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate
SRK NI-43-101 resource estimate (30-09-2014)
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Vein Category Tons Grade Au (oz)
(kt) (g/t)
--------------- ----------- ------ ------- --------
Espinito Inferred 200 7.7 50,000
--------------- ----------- ------ ------- --------
Buenos Aires
Jicaro Inferred 210 8.0 53,000
--------------- ----------- ------ ------- --------
Tatiana Inferred 1,080 6.6 230,000
--------------- ----------- ------ ------- --------
TOTAL 1,490 7.5 333,000
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Table 2 Mestiza Vein Set Soviet GKZ Mineral Resource Estimate (including the above NI-43-101 resources)
Soviet GKZ mineral
resource estimate (1991)
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Vein Category Tons (kt) Grade (g/t) Au (oz)
----------------- ----------- ---------- ------------ --------
Espinito C1,C2,P1 353 9.8 112,013
----------------- ----------- ---------- ------------ --------
San Pablo P1 39 12.2 15,338
----------------- ----------- ---------- ------------ --------
Buenos Aires
Jicaro C2, P1 317 16.8 171,489
----------------- ----------- ---------- ------------ --------
C2, P1,
Tatiana P2 1,682 9.0 486,855
----------------- ----------- ---------- ------------ --------
TOTAL 2,392 10.2 785,694
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Figure 1 Location of 7 resources that comprise the La India Project
Note: The numbers in Table1, Table 2 and Figure 1 have been rounded where appropriate.
Scout Drilling
In line with the second objective, and as announced on 27 January 2017, as part of a 4,000 m scout drilling campaign, drilling at the Cacao Prospect has been completed. A total of 720 m of drilling demonstrated a significant dilational vein, below near surface phreatic breccia and sinter. Drill intercepts included 7.85 m at 3.75 g/t, and 7.85 m at 2.95 g/t gold. There is the prospect of a much larger gold resource and future drilling is planned.
Furthermore, Condor has completed 6 drill holes, for a total of 945 m, on the Andrea Vein. This is an entirely grassroots discovery, with generally low grades at surface and scattered high grade grab samples (in excess of 30 g/t gold). The principal vein, and veins which split from it, have a strike length of at least 2.2 km. It forms a zone of anomalous soil and rock geochemistry (the 'Andrea Corridor', see RNS dated 29(th) January 2017) with a much greater strike length. The drill program, with a man-portable rig because of poor access roads, tested for potential La India-style mineralization (an epithermal vein with a boiling zone and high gold grade).
The 6 relatively shallow holes on the Andrea Vein encountered abundant zeolite veinlets, minerals typical of the upper parts of epithermal systems (above the boiling zone). The northern holes hit barren quartz/carbonate veins, but the deepest, and southernmost, hole encountered significant gold mineralization, with 5.1 m @ 1.9 g/t gold. This began at 186 m depth. Drilling at Andrea was suspended because of the lack of water required for drilling. Future drilling is planned to follow up on these encouraging results and will probably recommence in the wet season, expected to be in 6 months' time. It will target the southern portion and be deeper.
The drill rig also completed 429 m drilling at Real De la Cruz and 664 m drilling at Tatescame. Drill results from Real de la Cruz demonstrated poor continuity of the high-grade veins, though it may still have bulk mineable potential. The drilling at Tatescame gave poor results and it has been downgraded. It effectively demonstrated that the known vein, with grades up to at least 10 g/t gold, terminates towards the West.
Several new scout drilling targets have been identified and are being ranked in order of priority. The market will be updated as these are drilled.
Competent Person's Declaration
The information in this announcement that relates to the mineral potential, geology, exploration results and database is based on information compiled, and reviewed, by Dr Warren Pratt, Chartered Geologist (1994), Fellow of the Geological Society of London and Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. Dr Pratt is a geologist with over twenty five years of experience in the exploration of precious metal mineral resources. Dr Pratt consults to Condor Gold plc on an ad hoc basis and has considerable experience in epithermal mineralization, the type of deposit under consideration, and sufficient experience in the type of activity that he is undertaking to qualify as a 'Competent Person' as defined in the June 2009 Edition of the AIM Note for Mining and Oil & Gas Companies. Dr Pratt consents to the inclusion in the announcement of the matters based on their information in the form and context in which it appears and confirms that this information is accurate and not false or misleading.
Technical Glossary
Assay The laboratory test conducted to determine
the proportion of a mineral within a
rock or other material. Usually reported
as parts per million which is equivalent
to grams of the mineral (i.e. gold)
per tonne of rock
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C1 C1 reserves are broadly equivalent to
JORC indicated resources and have been
estimated by a sparse grid of trenches,
drill holes or underground workings.
The quality and properties of the deposit
are known tentatively by analyses and
by analogy with known deposits of the
same type. The general conditions for
exploitation are partially known
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C2 C2 reserves are broadly equivalent to
JORC inferred resources and have been
extrapolated from limited data, probably
only a single hole
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Dilational A mineral deposit in a vein space formed
Vein by bulging of the walls, contrasted
with veins formed by wall-rock replacement.
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En echelon In structural geology, en echelon veins
are structures within rock caused by
tension fractures that are parallel
to the major stress orientation. They
appear as sets of short, parallel, planar,
mineral-filled lenses within a body
of rock.
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Geochemistry The study of the elements and their
interaction as minerals to makeup rocks
and soils
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Geophysics The measurement and interpretation of
the earth's physical parameters using
non-invasive methods such as measuring
the gravity, magnetic susceptibility,
electrical conductivity, seismic response
and natural radioactive emissions.
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Hydrothermal Hot water circulation often caused by
heating of groundwater by near surface
magmas and often occurring in association
with volcanic activity. Hydrothermal
waters can contain significant concentrations
of dissolved minerals.
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Kt Thousand tonnes
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Mineral Reserve The economically mineable part of a
Measured and/or Indicated Mineral Resource.
It includes diluting materials and allowances
for losses, which may occur when the
material is mined. Appropriate assessments
and studies have been carried out, and
include consideration of and modification
by realistically assumed mining, metallurgical,
economic, marketing, legal, environmental,
social and governmental factors. These
assessments demonstrate at the time
of reporting that extraction could reasonably
be justified. Ore Reserves are sub-divided
in order of increasing confidence into
Probable Ore Reserves and Proved Ore
Reserves.
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Mineral Resource A concentration or occurrence of material
of economic interest in or on the Earth's
crust in such a form, quality, and quantity
that there are reasonable and realistic
prospects for eventual economic extraction.
The location, quantity, grade, continuity
and other geological characteristics
of a Mineral Resource are known, estimated
from specific geological knowledge,
or interpreted from a well constrained
and portrayed geological model.
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NI 43-101 Canadian National Instrument 43-101
a common standard for reporting of identified
mineral resources and ore reserves
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Phreatic breccias Fragmental rocks formed near the Earth's
surface by the interaction of hot rock
and cold water, or vice versa. Commonly
occur at the top of mineralized epithermal
gold systems.
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Radiometric Also known as gamma ray spectrometry,
is the measure of natural radiation
on the top 30-45cm of the earth's surface.
The abundance of the three naturally
occurring radioactive elements, potassium
(K), thorium (Th) and uranium (U), is
proportional to the abundance of minerals
containing those elements. This information
can be used in mapping the surface geology
including the definition of areas of
potassium enrichment related to hydrothermal
alteration.
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Rock chip A sample of rock collected for analysis,
from one or several close spaced sample
points at a location. Unless otherwise
stated, this type of sample is not representative
of the variation in grade across the
width of an ore or mineralised body
and the assay results cannot be used
in a Mineral Resource Estimation
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Sinter Finely banded chalcedony and quartz,
formed from an ancient hot spring
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Soviet Classification The former Soviet system for classification
of reserves and resources, developed
in 1960 and revised in 1981, which divides
mineral concentrations into seven categories
of three major groups, based on the
level of exploration performed: explored
reserves (A, B, C1), evaluated reserves
(C2) and prognostic resources (P1, P2,
P3)
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Soviet GKZ The former Soviet State Commission for
Mineral Reserves.
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Stockwork Multiple connected veins with more than
one orientation, typically consisting
of millimetre to centimetre thick fracture-fill
veins and veinlets.
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Strike length The longest horizontal dimension of
an ore body or zone of mineralisation.
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Vein A sheet-like body of crystallised minerals
within a rock, generally forming in
a discontinuity or crack between two
rock masses. Economic concentrations
of gold are often contained within vein
minerals.
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Zeolite veinlets Zeolites are hydrated aluminosilicates
found in gas bubbles within basalts
and in
geothermal districts. They also found
in the upper parts of gold-bearing epithermal
systems.
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For further information please visit www.condorgold.com or contact:
Condor Gold plc Mark Child, Executive
Chairman and CEO
+44 (0) 20 7493 2734
Beaumont Cornish Roland Cornish and
Limited James Biddle
+44 (0) 20 7628 3396
Numis Securities
Limited John Prior and James
Black
+44 (0) 20 7260
1000
Farm Street Media Simon Robinson
+44 (0) 7593 340107
About Condor Gold plc:
Condor Gold plc was admitted to AIM on 31st May 2006. The Company is a gold exploration and development company with a focus on Central America.
Condor completed a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) and two Preliminary Economic Assessments (PEA) on La India Project in Nicaragua in December 2014. The PFS details an open pit gold mineral reserve of 6.9 Mt at 3.0 g/t gold for 675,000 oz gold producing 80,000 oz gold p.a. for 7 years. The PEA for the open pit only scenario details 100,000 oz gold production p.a. for 8 years whereas the PEA for a combination of open pit and underground details 140,000 oz gold production p.a. for 8 years. La India Project contains a total attributable mineral resource of 18.08 Mt at 4.0 g/t for 2.31 M oz gold and 2.68 M oz silver at 6.2 g/t to the CIM Code.
In El Salvador, Condor has an attributable 1,004,000 oz gold equivalent at 2.6 g/t JORC compliant resource. The resource calculations are compiled by independent geologists SRK Consulting (UK) Limited for Nicaragua and Ravensgate and Geosure for El Salvador.
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Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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