Kobrea Exploration (CSE:KBX) is working towards conducting drilling at the El Destino porphyry system, within the Western Malargüe Copper Project in Argentina, after receiving airborne magnetometry and interpretation results.
As a result of the airborne magnetometry and interpretation at El Destino, the interpreted system has expanded to 2.8km by 2km.
The processing of recently acquired magnetic data over El Destino supports the company’s interpretation that the hydrothermal alteration footprint of the system continues to the north and south beneath a thin, pleistocene-aged ignimbrite sequence.
CEO James Hedalen says the results support the company’s hypothesis that the limits of the El Destino porphyry system extend to the north and south under younger volcanic cover rock.
“Our interpretation is supported further by historical alteration mapping which outlined a large porphyry system exhibiting strong alteration at the margins of the exposed portion of the system,” Hedalen says.
Field crews intend to begin fieldwork at El Destino to bring it to a drill-ready system. This work will take place this season, in parallel with the road building and drilling at El Perdido.
El Destino, covering 9,487 hectares, is host to a porphyry copper-gold system that has been defined at surface by historical operators but has not seen any drilling to date.
Kobrea Exploration is a mineral explorer and developer focused on acquiring and discovering base metal projects in North and South America.
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