Terra Rossa Gold (TSX‑V:TRR) has announced it expects to begin a diamond drilling program of up to 5,000m at its wholly owned Vetas Gold Project in Colombia in early August.
The company has appointed Kluane Drilling to undertake the phase one campaign using a single drill rig.
The program will initially focus on verifying results from historical drilling completed between 2010 and 2013 within key areas of the current mineral resource. Terra Rossa says it will also test for broader zones of stockwork-style mineralisation at Real Minera and other similar targets across the project.
Drilling is scheduled to begin from the RM‑03 pad due to its accessibility, with the first holes designed to verify historical holes DDH008 and DDH013.
CEO Carter Smith says the campaign follows several months of preparatory exploration and data review.
“To date, the team has completed several months of mapping, sampling and data verification, which has identified these key targets for initial follow-up drilling,” Smith says.
Terra Rossa’s geology team has conducted reconnaissance mapping to identify lithologies and mineral associations across Vetas, identifying several intrusive rock assemblages including dacite porphyry.
The company has also integrated historical drilling with geophysical and rock and soil geochemical data to construct a three-dimensional model of the project. This work will guide detailed surface mapping and drill targeting.
Vetas is located within the Vetas–California gold district, which hosts intrusion-related vein and stockwork quartz-gold deposits. Terra Rossa says at least three intrusive rock types have been identified intruding the property’s underlying gneiss.
The company has also undertaken community engagement ahead of the drilling and says local stakeholders are aligned with its planned exploration activities.
Write to France Pinzon at Mining.com.au
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