RC drilling expansion program commences at Cervantes California zone target.
Previous drilling at the California zone returned 1.5gpt gold over 137m and 1.0 gpt gold over 165m.
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 31, 2023 / Aztec Minerals Corp. (TSXV:AZT)(OTCQB:AZZTF) announces that reverse circulation "RC" drilling has commenced at its 100% owned Cervantes porphyry gold-copper project in Sonora, Mexico. Aztec plans to drill over the next two months to expand the main California zone target with step out drilling. Previous drilling in 2022 at the California zone target discovered extensive oxide porphyry gold-copper mineralization with drill intercepts of up to 1.5gpt gold over 137m and 1.0 gpt gold over 165m.

The drill program has been optimized to focus on expanding the California zone oxide mineralization, which remains open laterally in every direction, with a minimum 11 holes and 1,600m of RC drilling in this current stage of exploration. The California zone porphyry target has a footprint of over 1 km x 1km exposed to date. The planned drill targets have utilized information gathered during the surface roadcut sampling and detailed 1:200 scale geologic mapping program conducted in the first half of 2023. The surface program enhanced the interpretation for exploration targets to potentially expand the gold mineralization at the primary California target zone of the property. The mapping confirmed previous drilling the presence of phyllic and potassic alteration zones and their being key to metallization. The project is currently permitted for an additional 17 drillholes locations for a second stage of the drilling to be designed subject to the results of the initial stage of RC drilling currently underway.

The primary objectives of the upcoming drilling programs are to continue to define the open pit, heap leach gold potential of the porphyry oxide cap at California, test the down dip extensions of the silicic-phyllic alteration in the Qfp intrusive for deeper copper-gold porphyry sulfide mineralization underlying the oxide cap, and test for extensions of the California North target.

Aztec will be participating in the following upcoming events and conferences:

November 1-4: New Orleans Investment Conference, New Orleans LA

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