Northern Peru drills higher grades at Hilorico

摘要

VANCOUVER - The latest drilling by Northern Peru Copper (NOC-T, NPUCF-O) at its Hilorico gold project, in northwestern Peru's Yanacocha district, has hit some of the highest gold grades encountered to date. Hole 31 was drilled as a deep step-out hole on the southern margin of the deposit and cut 122.6 metres (from 111.4 metres down-hole) grading 1.57 grams gold per tonne and 13.6 grams silver in brecciated quartzites with a sulphide matrix, and included a 40-metre interval averaging 3.09 grams gold and 7.9 grams silver.