Zamora intensifies work in Ecuador

Junior explorer Zamora Gold (CDN) will embark on a second round of core drilling on its Mina Real concession in southern Ecuador.

Within the 5,066-hectare concession area, an exploration program planned for mid-summer will test several promising target areas. Work is ongoing in an effort to lay out drill sites.

Backhoe and dozer trenching continue on a gold-bearing breccia and vein zone at the Guaysimi Sur target area. The target, which has a defined strike length of 700 metres, lies along the same structure currently being drilled by South African Goldfields at its Sultana property (200 metres to the southwest) and Latin American Gold (VSE) at its Guaysimi Alto property (900 metres to the north). These properties are surrounded by the Mina Real concession.

During a reconnaissance program carried out less than 1 km south of the Guaysimi Sur, Zamora geologists ran across a large mineral system which they deemed the Cerro Colorado target. This zone, which measures 600 by 300 metres and is still open to the south and west, contains very anomalous copper and gold values in rock and soil samples. Intense porphyry-style alteration, quartz veining and sulphide mineralization lead Zamora geologists to suspect the presence of a large, copper-gold porphyry system.

As a result, the company has started a stepped-up program of trenching, mapping and sampling. Drilling will follow.