{"id":1153868,"date":"2019-12-06T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1008518"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:20:16","slug":"royal-road-minerals-to-expand-drilling-campaign-at-colombian-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1153868","title":{"rendered":"Royal Road Minerals to expand drilling campaign at Colombian project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Autonomous Corporation of Antioquia Corantioquia, in northwestern Colombia, approved Royal Road Minerals&#8217; (TSXV: RYR) plan to conduct further drilling on the mining concession contracts IJN-14221, known as <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">Guintar<\/g>, and IJN-11331, known as Niverengo.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a press release, the Jersey-based company explained that the Guintar and Niverengo concession contracts are contiguous title areas totalling approximately 2,254 hectares and located on Royal Road&#8217;s &#8220;Northern Block&#8221; in the Anza mining district.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0The titles were acquired through Royal Road&#8217;s purchase of Northern Colombia Holdings, an affiliate of AngloGold Ashanti<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The titles were acquired through Royal Road&#8217;s purchase of Northern Colombia Holdings, an affiliate of AngloGold Ashanti.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Guintar title area covers an artisanal mining district with more than 50 known historic underground adits developed on steeply dipping east-west oriented gold mineralized vein structures,&#8221; the European miner said in the media brief. &#8220;Outcrop on the neighboring Niverengo title area is limited and so AGA&#8217;s drilling was focused on a 2000 by 800 meter wide target zone identified primarily using ground magnetic data, IP-geophysical data, and soil geochemical results. Drill core revealed that gold mineralization at Niverengo is hosted in pyrrhotite-pyrite-silica-calcite breccias, veins and fractures which are oriented at a high-angle to bedding in a well-laminated black-grey shale sequence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the release, Royal Road&#8217;s management said they believe that there is potential for higher-grade bulk-tonnage targets at depth, as sheeted vein structures or hydrothermal breccia in strongly hornfelsed host rocks at Guintar and possibly associated with concealed high-grade hydrothermal breccias beneath the gold mineralized shale package at Niverengo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have completed an initial reinterpretation of drill-core, geophysics and geology at Guintar-Niverengo and we are excited by the potential for underlying, possibly higher-grade, bulk-tonnage vein and breccia bodies located beneath strong hornfels alteration at Guintar and below the gold mineralized shale package at Niverengo,&#8221; Tim Coughlin, Royal Road Minerals president 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