La Navidad - an additional 700m mineralized structure?Take a look at map 1 (of the December map file) again. Focus in on the dotted black area to the north, and situated between the Ag-Pd target and the gold target, at La Navidad.
https://www.kootenaysilver.com/assets/img/nr/2016_27_KTN_MAPS_NR_Dec_19_2016_FINAL.pdf
It is going north for about 700m. It is also located just above where the road turns left. You can focus in on that road, as an anchor position (guide) for the various maps. It helps tremendously with navigating around everything.
Take a look at the fault (north-south) structure located to the far right (northern) corner of this next map (an old Northair map).
https://file.marketwire.com/release/LaCigarraGeochemRockAll.jpg
Actually, plenty of great info on this old map. And, it all correlates extremely well to the new info recently issued by Kootenay.
On this old (2015) Northair map, take a look at the north-south fault structure located immediately to the left of the fault structure I identified above. It looks like it is the mineralized structure that is driving the (west located) Ag-Pb La Navidad (north-south) target.
Also, take a look at the yellow area that is running east (right) of the green La Navidad label. It is the low mag area I discussed on my previous post. Further, focus in on the major fault line that is running (east-west) through (or near the bottom of) the low mag readings. This is essentially the contact zone. The mineralization is found essentially to the north of this major east-west fault occurrence. If an intrusive is on one side of the fault break then it would likely be on the south side. It is not clear from the map if an intrusive was involved (be it buried or at surface), but either way it looks like a major east-west break occurred and the norh side of the break is well mineralized (within the contact zone of this break).
This all bodes extremely well for the future La Navidad drill program. We seem to have identified controls of the mineralization within these target areas, and have correlated the geophysical structures with positive surface sampling results - all vital steps towards identifying an economic mineral deposit.
Anyway, back to this new 700m (dotted black line, north-south) target. Take a look at map 2 (of the new December map file). Focus in on the positive Ag-Pd sample results located to the far northern right. Those good results are located right along this 700m dotted black line target / north-south (right) fault structure. There seems to be strong correlation here also, between controlling fault structure and positive minerals samples on surface.
Also, take a look to the left of the road, on maps 2, 3 and 4 (of the new December map file). You will not that there are not a lot of positive mineral samples in the first 500m (or so) immediately to the left of the road. The positive samples pick up again once you reach the Ag-Pd La Navidad target area, further left.
Now, take a look at the yellow area (low mag readings) on the old Northair map. You will notice that the low mag readings continues right into and through that 500m La Navidad middle section area (that shows little positive surface samples).
I believe this is why Kootenay believes that the east La Navidad gold target is an extension of the west Ag-Pg La Navidad target. The geophysical readings are showing a clear continuation of the structure. It likely means that the middle (500m) area of this structure is buried under a hard cover. This cover (be is hard quartzite rock or something else) is likely not allowing cracks for mineralized seepage to travel to the surface (to be sampled), and is likely not providing erosional windows to view the mineralized bedrock from the surface location.
In map 1 (of the December map file), you can also observe (quite clearly, actually, via the Google Earth picture) that a different type of material is located between the 2 surface La Navidad target areas. It further supports the theory of the middle (potentially mineralized) section being buried by some type of overburden or hard rock cover.