The Coringa Gold Project is underlain by granitic intrusions of the Maloquinha group and rhyolites of the Iriri group (Salustiano Formation). The granites are granular, medium-grained, and consist of pink feldspar and quartz. The rhyolites are fine to medium-grained, porphyritic, and strongly magnetic. Sanidine and quartz phenocrysts occur in a fine-grained matrix of sanidine-quartz. Minor amounts of biotite also occur in the matrix which has been altered to chlorite.
There are two dominant structural trends on the Coringa Gold Project property:
• The 310° structures are interpreted as strike-slip faults with probably a dextral (right lateral) sense of displacement.
• Structures trending at 345° are interpreted as R-shears.
Mineralized veins at the Coringa Gold Project are associated with the R-shears. The dip of the veins ranges from 750 to the east to vertical, but they occasionally dip steeply westward (e.g., Galena Vein).
Mineralization at the CoringaGold Projectis associated with a shear/vein system that has a strike length of over 7 km. The mineralized zones vary in thickness from <1 centimeter (cm) up to 14 meters. Several veins (i.e., Galena, Mãe de Leite, Meio, and Come Quieto) occur along the main mineralized corridor and others, such as Serra, Demetrio, and Valdette, form subparallel zones. The average thicknesses for the veins included in the estimate of mineral resources are: Serra 0.52 m, Galena & Mãe de Leite 0.59 m, M ........
