Property Ownership and Location
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Pampa Buenos Aires Property Boundary |
The Pampa Buenos Aires prospect is located in Region II approximately
15 km southwest of the Meridian Gold’s El Peñón silver/gold mine. The
28,800 ha property is currently under option to Rusoro Mining Limited (“Rusoro”).
Rusoro may earn a 50% interest in the property by spending $250,000 on
exploration prior to June 30, 2008 and issuing 176,479 Rusoro common
shares to Andina.
The property area has been subject to regional exploration by Newmont
during the period 2001 to 2003. The work included magnetometer and
hoistEM surveys plus regional stream sediment sampling. Encouraging
anomalous stream sediment results were obtained from areas with no
history of gold mineralization. The combination of known hydrothermal
systems, anomalous, previously unknown occurrences of gold and the large
area obscured by the gravel cover make Pampa Buenos Aires an attractive
exploration target for epithermal gold and copper mineralization.
The Pampa Buenos Aires is a broad plain underlain primarily by
andesitic volcanic rocks but mostly covered by alluvial gravels. A
number of zones of hydrothermal alteration occur on the mineral
concessions and one highly silicified zone on the southwest corner of
the concession block has been mined in the past for silica used as flux
in smelting operations. These silicified zones are indicative of the
volcanic-hydrothermal and structural history of the area. |