Atacama Pacific Builds Gold Resource at Cerro Maricunga

摘要

Atacama Pacific Gold, a junior Canadian company headquartered in Toronto, has increased the measured and indicated resource at its 100%-owned Cerro Maricunga gold project in northern Chile by 65% to 2.68 million oz of gold in 163.9 million mt grading 0.51 g/mt at a 0.3 g/mt gold cutoff, with a further 1.81 million oz in 120.7 million mt grading 0.47 g/mt in the inferred category. The entire resource occurs in oxide-associated gold mineralization. Atacama President and CEO Carl Hansen said, "The large oxide resource and remarkable continuity of the gold mineralization combined with excellent metallurgical recoveries ranging from 77% at a 100-mm crush size to 81% at a 19-mm crush suggest that Cerro Maricunga has the potential to be a very attractive development project.