The Roca Prospect
The Roca Prospect comprises three clusters of contiguous concessions
which Atacama Pacific acquired by filing in 2009.
The Roca Prospect is located approximately 80-100 km east and northeast
of El Salvador, Region III, Chile. To date, minimal on the ground work
has been performed within these concessions and the concessions are
considered to cover separate areas of prospectable Maricunga-style
high-level hydrothermal alteration.
The Roca Project concessions were acquired on the basis of regional
geologic and satellite image evaluations. The apparent alteration zones
have dimensions of up to 4 km x 2 km. In 2008, Gold Fields performed
limited geochemical sampling at the Lagunas Norte and Sur concessions
(18 and 26 samples respectively). This work returned trace to weakly
anomalous Au (<2.5 to 25) and trace to moderately anomalous indicator
elements (As, Cu, Mo, Hg, and Sb). The elevated Cu-Mo values at Lagunas
Norte may signal the potential for a Maricunga-style gold (copper)
porphyry at depth.
The Company is planning additional geochemical sampling, and preliminary
geologic mapping program and depending on the results of this work,
Atacama Pacific may propose a more specific and expanded exploration
program.
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