La Soledad Zone - thoughtsThe NR represents further good news about the potential of La Soledad. It is also extremely consistent with my theory, which was formulated from past Northair work done on La Soledad. Here is what I posted in the past about my view of La Soledad:
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7) La Soledad Zone - 1.5 km`` ``Strong magnetic readings. The deposit is likely buried under a good size overburden top layer. There is a past artisanal adit at La Soledad. It means the historical artisanal miners found processing ore. Northair found a dump rock (likely processed) with 277 g/t silver and also identified channnel material of 85 g/t silver over 2.1m.`` For those not familiar with La Cigarra resource targets, here is a link to my write-up (Kootenay will likely be evaluating all of them to determine priority):
https://www.stockhouse.com/companies/bullboard/v.ktn/kootenay-gold-inc?postid=24750192 La Soledad also provided a sample of 498 g/t silver over .90m in the past.
Today`s 252 g/t silver sample, added to the past 277 g/t silver and the 498 g/t silver, all likely representing leakage from the buried mineralized body into the very hard, very capped, quartzite rock. I believe this leakage is what the past artisanal small-scale miners were accessing - I don`t think they were mining the main La Soledad body. My theory is that the main mineralized body is sitting below this top rock, and that this body represents a buried extension of the San Gregorio and Las Carolinas resource bodies - potentially over 1.5 km.
I think this is also Kootenay`s working theory.
I think something similar could be happening at Nogalera and perhaps in parts of Ram Zone also, with regards to leakage through fractures in the capping quartzite rock, but perhaps not are buried and maybe less capping. With Nogalera, the high grade silver likely settled into pockets between and below the quartzite rock. The silver and lead minerals are very concentrated there and very high grade in areas.
