GEOLOGY & MINERALIZATION
El Valle lies within the prolific Sierra Madre Occidental. The geology includes Late Oligocene rhyolite tuffs overlying altered Cretaceous volcanic rocks of the Tarahumara Formation, with Baucarit conglomerates outcropping in the northeast and western parts of the property. Early Cenozoic andesites are host rocks for the gold-bearing quartz veins and porphyry copper targets on site.
The primary alteration zones identified on the project consist of extensive silicification, which hosts stockwork quartz veins and silicified bodies aligned along a consistent structural trend. These features coincide with zones of mineralization. The mineralized zones are composed of quartz-bearing structures that reach widths of up to eight meters and contain disseminated to semi-massive pyrite, chalcopyrite, and galena. The veins exhibit characteristic low-sulfidation epithermal textures, indicative of formation from relatively low-temperature hydrothermal fluids within a structurally controlled setting.
These low sulfidation veins and intermediate sulfidation epithermal veins have past production, extensive and strength that can be further tested with rapid drilling.