Exploration History & Results
Ariel project is strategically located in the Laramide copper belt of northern Mexico and is currently at a drilling stage of exploration. Geologic mapping, alteration analysis and sampling has helped focus targeting toward high priority drill exploration targets which have been permitted and title in hand for Riverside. The project stands out for its color anomaly aligning with favorable geology caused from oxiding of outcropping pyritic sulfide system with quartz-sericite alteration and porphyry Cu style veining stock works.
Approximately >300 rock samples were collected and analyzed for trace metal contents using assay lab and portable X-ray fluorescence instrument as well as a mineral analyzer that employs near infra-red spectrometry to identify minerals typically formed by hydrothermal processes. An additional 120 samples were analyzed using only the spectral analyzer.
Riverside delineated two primary porphyry targets (The Ariel and Maria Luisa Targets) with geochemical anomalies that includes Copper (Cu), Bismuth (Bi), Tungsten (W), and Sulfur (S).
