DEPOSIT TYPES
The deposit was more recently classified by Arce-Burgoa and Goldfarb (2009), as being a deformed example of the Iron Ore Copper Gold (IOCG) association.
The two main deposits types present on the Don Mario Property are exemplified by the copper-dominated UMZ deposit that shows direct association with a large calc-silicate zone, and the gold-dominated LMZ deposit that occurs beneath the UMZ and shows direct association with shear-focused silicification, calcsilicate, potassic, and iron oxide alteration. The Las Tojas and Cerro Felix deposits are similar in style and association with the LMZ, but no substantive additional examples of the UMZ style have been identified on the Property to date.
Tailings Storage Facility (TSF)
Tailings are not a “deposit type” in the conventional sense but in this case, for the purposes of considering Don Mario’s TSF content a Mineral Resource, they are described as an accumulation of loose material with grain size finer than sand, mainly composed by silt size material and less than 20% of clays. The tailings material humidity can vary from 20.8% to 51.4% (Sanchez et al., 2018).
The executed laboratory tests evidence that the tailings can be grouped into fine tailings and coarse tailings, classified respectively as silty sands and silts with low plasticity with the following characteristics:
- The coarse tailings, classified as silty sands, have a field density of 1.468 g/cm3 to 1.712 ........
