Eloro Resources to Acquire Additional Properties to Significantly Expand Holdings at the Iska Iska Silver-Tin Polymetallic Project, Potosi Department, Bolivia
The Mina Casiterita and Mina Hoyada properties to be acquired cover 14.75 km2 southwest and west of Iska Iska. These properties connect with the TUP-3 and TUP-6 claims previously staked by Eloro. Eloro has also staked additional land in the area. Following the acquisition, the total land package in the Iska Iska area to be controlled by Eloro will total 1,935 quadrants covering 483.75 km2. Artisanal mining in the 1960’s identified high grade tin (Sn) veins on the Mina Casiterita property that are hosted in an intrusive dacite. Production from 1962 to 1964 is reported by the Departamento Nacional de Geología in Bolivia to be 69.85 tonnes grading 50.60% Sn. Recently completed magnetic surveys by Eloro has outlined an extensive, near surface, magnetic intrusive body on the Mina Casiterita property immediately southwest of Iska Iska. This intrusive hosts the previously mined high-grade tin veins and is very likely the continuation of the porphyry tin intrusion projected to be below the epithermal Ag-Sn-Zn-Pb mineralization at Iska Iska. The Porco adit from which previously reported channel sampling returned 103m grading 521 g Ag eq/t (including 117g Ag/t, 1.44 g Au/t, 0.54% Cu and 0.66% Sn) in altered basement sediments, is located near the northeast part of the magnetic anomaly, attesting to the potential strength and high-grade nature of the mineralized system in the area. Drilling is planned on Mina Casiterita in Q1 2023 with geological mapping, sampling and geophysical surveys now in progress on the full land package across the Iska Iska region.
Eloro Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ELO; OTCQX: ELRRF; FSE: P2QM) (“Eloro”, or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has entered into an option agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire the Mina Casiterita and Mina Hoyada properties (the “Acquisition”) which collectively cover 14.75 km2 southwest and west of the Iska Iska Silver-Tin Polymetallic Project (“Iska Iska”). Artisanal mining in the 1960’s identified high grade tin veins on the Mina Casiterita property that are hosted in intrusive dacite. Production from 1962 to 1964 is reported by the Departamento Nacional de Geología (National Department of Geology) in Bolivia as 69.85 tonnes grading 50.60% Sn. These properties connect with the TUP-3 and TUP-6 claims previously staked by Eloro. The Company has also staked additional claims in the Iska Iska region, as shown in Figure 1. Collectively, the land package to be controlled by Eloro following the Acquisition will total 1,935 quadrants covering 483.75 km2. This includes the Tomave, Khuchu Ingenio and Puna properties, located further north towards Potosi (Figure 1).