Drills begin at Caramanta TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Sept. 16, 2013) - Solvista Gold Corporation ("Solvista" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:SVV)(OTCQX:SVVZF) is pleased to announce the recommencement of drilling at its Caramanta Project, designed to test the Malabrigo and Casa Verde porphyry targets, located to the immediate north of the three targets already drilled by with Company within the Caramanta Porphyry Cluster ("CPC"). The Company is also pleased to announce the results of encouraging first pass metallurgical studies and associated petrographic analyses on the El Retén porphyry system.
Highlights
- Drilling will commence on the Malabrigo porphyry target, which is located 500 metres to the northwest of Ajiaco Sur, as shown on Figure 1. Exploration at Malabrigo has defined a roughly north-south trending 75th percentile gold anomaly (0.18 g/t) measuring approximately 650 metres by 250 metres. Surface channel samples have returned values up to 1.20 g/t Au and 0.17 % Cu.
- Drilling will also test the Casa Verde porphyry target, located 600 metres to the north-northeast of Malabrigo. Exploration at Casa Verde has defined a roughly north-south trending 75th percentile copper anomaly (731 ppm) measuring approximately 700 metres by 140 metres. Surface channel samples have returned values up to 0.94 g/t Au and 0.45 % Cu.