FYIYamana drills 11.68 g/t Au over 8.09 m at Mercedes
2009-09-14 10:02 ET - News Release
Mr. Mark Hawksworth reports
YAMANA PROVIDES DEVELOPMENT STAGE PROJECTS UPDATE
Yamana Gold Corp. has released an update to its development projects, Mercedes in Mexico and Agua Rica in Argentina.
Mercedes, Mexico
Drilling continued at Mercedes, focusing primarily on the central and northern portions of the Las Barrancas trend, the Northwest extension at Mercedes, and the Lupita vein zone. Drilling year to date totals 28,201 metres in 79 core holes.
Las Barrancas
Drilling on the Barrancas Central and North targets continues to intersect multiple epithermal quartz-carbonate vein and stockwork zones ranging from 1.0 to 23.0 metres in true width, in an area covered by 70 to 120 metres of postmineral volcano-sedimentary rocks. Gold values in excess of 2.0 grams per tonne gold equivalent (the current cut-off grade) have been intersected along most of a 900-metre strike length, covering a maximum vertical range of 180 metres (910- to 1,090-metre elevations). Drilling continues to intersect certain zones of high-grade gold mineralization (up to 16.0 g/t gold equivalent over a true width of 5.0 metres).