The Anori project targets high grade vein style mineralization with the potential for bulk mineable stockwork zones in an area with significant historic lode and placer gold production.
Project Summary:
Panoramic view showing adjacent Solferino mine (top) and historic exploitation of colluvial (weathered bed rock) gold deposits below. Colombian Mines Corporation's Anori property surrounds the Solferino mine, which exploits shear-hosted gold mineralization in Paleozoic schist as veins and stockworks.
Historic artesinal mining on the Company's ground has produced high grade colluvial placer gold from weathered and altered bedrock along the extension of the Solverino zone onto the Company's property.
The Company's 2,373 hectare property occurs in the Department of Antioquia's municipalities of Amalfi and Anori, and surrounds the 173 hectare Solferino Mine.
The adjacent Solferino Mine, originally developed by the French company "Compagnie française de Segovie" in the late 1880's, was reopened in the mid-1990's by a local Colombian miner, and is currently producing at a reported rate of up to 10 tonnes per day at grades varying between 20- to more than 40 g/t gold. Underground workings limited drilling at Solferino have defined a system more than 400 meters long, with minimum vertical expression over 300 meters. CMJ reconnaissance rock sampling at the Solferino mine in 2006 returned over 30 g/t gold in individual samples, with composite intervals ranging from 4.5 meters at 17.7 g/t gold to 17.0 meters averaging 6.6 g/t gold.
Economic Geology:
The gold mineralization at Anori-Solferino is hosted by a northwest trending silicified shear zone in silica flooded and quartz veined sericite, chlorite and biotite schists that can form stockwork zones with widths of more than 20 meters. The quartz veins and veinlets contain higher grade gold mineralization, with lower grade disseminated mineralization characterizing the silica flooded schists between. The Anori-Solferino shear zone lies within a corridor of historic mines that were some of the largest producers in the district, including the La Constanza and El Violin mines.
