Patriot Resources has stepped up activity at its Tassa silver-gold project in southern Peru. The company has collected 38 surface samples from the Pachamayo target, which sits directly north of the current resource area. The samples have been dispatched to a lab in Peru for analysis, with results expected early in the fourth quarter this year.
Mapping at Pachamayo has revealed a 120-metre-long breccia zone with alteration that management believes represents the upper levels of a well-preserved epithermal silver-gold system. The theory is that the system is intact, which could mean more concentrated, higher-grade mineralisation lies untested at depth.
With the first batch of samples away, Patriot has moved its exploration crew south to the recently staked Tassa 5 tenement to begin mapping and sampling what it calls the "Priority One" target zone. The new program will test the southern extension of a 3.1-kilometre-long interpreted mineralised corridor.
Patriot Resources chief executive officer and managing director Dominic Duggan said: "This program is about sharpening our targets, so that when the drill permit lands, we are ready to drill the highest-priority targets."
The existing maiden inferred mineral resource at Tassa, announced in February, stands at 18.53 million tonnes grading 52.68 grams per tonne silver equivalent for 31.4 million ounces of contained silver equivalent. The company also outlined a potential exploration target in May of between 422 and 359 million tonnes at a grade of 57 to 48 grams per tonne silver equivalent.