{"id":1121224,"date":"2019-06-14T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=993694"},"modified":"2019-06-14T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:45:46","slug":"cordoba-to-restart-pea-work-for-alacran-deposit-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1121224","title":{"rendered":"Cordoba to restart PEA work for Alacr\u00e1n deposit in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cordoba Minerals (TSXV: CDB) announced that it has restarted work on the Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Alacr\u00e1n deposit, located within its 100%-owned San Mat\u00edas copper-gold project in Colombia. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>A potential new, high-grade epithermal vein was recently discovered at Alacr\u00e1n. Results were 4,440 g\/t gold + 10.25% copper + 24.70% zinc + 347 g\/t silver over 0.90 metres<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner explained that as part of the PEA, its partner Nordmin Engineering is re-evaluating the Alacr\u00e1n mineral resource estimate with an improved geological understanding of the high-grade domains following recent drilling, metallurgical testing <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">and<\/g> re-mapping of the artisanal workings. <\/p>\n<p>At present, indicated mineral resources at Alacr\u00e1n are 36.1 million tonnes grading 0.57% copper and 0.26 g\/t gold, while inferred mineral resources are 31.8 million tonnes grading 0.52% copper and 0.24 g\/t gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to have Nordmin revisit the Alacran Preliminary Economic Assessment and look forward to receiving their results, which we believe will demonstrate a very robust copper and gold project,\u201d Eric Finlayson, Cordoba\u2019s president and CEO, said in the media brief.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/canadian-miner-cordoba-dealing-fraudulent-transactions-colombian-subsidiary\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">San Mat\u00edas project <\/a>is located in the Municipality of Puerto Libertador, within the C\u00f3rdoba department of northern Colombia and it comprises a 20,000-hectare land package in a newly identified high-grade copper-gold district. According to Cordoba Minerals, the district is characterized by porphyry type and \u201ccarbonate replacement\u201d type and\/or \u201ciron oxide copper-gold\u201d type deposits formed in an accreted island arc setting.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the PEA, the miner is re-evaluating the Alacr&aacute;n mineral resource estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121317,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121224\/revisions\/1121317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}