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Capella Resources Re-Initiates Exploration at Lajitas-Chile
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 19, 2011) - CAPELLA RESOURCES LTD. (TSX VENTURE:KPS) ("Capella" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it had contracted with PhotoSat Information Ltd. of Vancouver, Canada and SpecTIR LLC of Reno, Nevada to obtain high resolution, satellite-derived digital terrain models and airborne hyperspectral data collection that will aid the Company in defining a resource and identifying new gold zones at the Company's Lajitas Project in northern Chile.
Capella's Lajitas Project is located on the Maricunga Gold-Copper Belt in the County of Copiapo, Third Region, Republic of Chile, approximately 700 km northwest of Santiago, Chile. The property consists of 1,600 hectares of exploration and exploitation claims.
The high resolution topographic data, derived from high-resolution satellite imagery, will aid in developing better surface/attitude controls for mineralization and constrain resource models. High-resolution topography has also been demonstrated as a useful tool in outlining subtle structural trends important to the control of gold mineralization.
Hyperspectral imaging technology utilizing airborne scanners capable of recording 357 spectral bands simultaneously in visible to short-wave infrared range of electromagnetic spectrum and is a relatively new surveying technology using reflected solar energy to detect specific surficial alteration minerals. Using a high-fidelity airborne sensor from SpecTIR LLC., Capella has contracted the acquisition of hyperspectral imagery which will give it an unprecedented appraisal of the hydrothermal alteration mineralogy at Lajitas, intended to outline subtle zones of Maricunga-type gold mineralization in the district. Similar technology has been used elsewhere in the Maricunga belt yielding promising results.