By Deborah Sterescu
Proactive Investors UK
Timmins Gold Corp. says it has intersected a new mineralized gold zone around 1 kilometre to the east of the San Francisco pit at its San Francisco mine in Sonora, Mexico.
The San Francisco mine, from which Timmins is in commercial production, is comprised of two pits, the larger San Francisco pit and the La Chicharra pit — located approximately 1.5 km to the west.
The company is in the midst of an ongoing drill program at the site, having drilled a total of 148 holes from July to the end of September. It now has four reverse circulation rigs and one core rig working at the asset.
Drilling results so far have led to the confirmation of a new mineralized zone — extending as far as 1 kilometre to the east of the existing limits of the San Francisco pit, the miner said.