13 stacked (high-grade) structures at Orenada 4 (thus far)This is what Orenada 4 is turning out to be. There are 13 stacked high-grade veins/structures, surrounded by lower-grade disseminated gold. The widespread disseminated gold will better enable the open pit deposit to be mined via (economies of scale type) bulk tonnage methods.
Some of the high-grade structures are now becoming well defined, while some of the lower structures could use more drilled info.
The first 4 or 5 (top level) structures appears to be quite thick, which bodes well for the early years of mining at Orenada 4. Quite often, survival of a mining operation is dependent on success of mining a deposit in the first few years after start up. Orenada 4 is demonstrating really nice results within the mineralized (high-grade) structures in top layers of the deposit.
The first map shows an east-west direction of the 13 mineralized structures. Note: The 13th structure was recently discovered and is located at depth, on the west side. You can easily locate the other 12. The longer ones run for quite a decent distance east-west. There are plenty of opportunities for them to run even further, especially the ones nearer to the surface.
The second map provides an appreciation of the north-south thickness of the high-grade veins/structures. The north-south thickness of each structure likely falls within the 20 - 40m range. The grade of these structures is 2.0 (+) g/t gold. These maps do not show grades below 2.0 g/t gold, thus the lower-grade disseminated gold ounces (surrounding all of these high-grade gold structures) are not profiled here. However, the disseminated gold from .5 - 1.9 g/t will likely also be mined (as a bulk operation, which will help lower cash cost per oz via economies of scale and help in trying to get a handle on strip ratio).
As a side note, I believe the yellow area is the Cadillac Break area. The Break seems to be about 100m wide in this area (north-south). As noted in one of my other posts, The Break appears to be about 150-200m wide when we go further to the east (about 1 km east of Orenada 2).
View looking north (shows east-west mineralized length):
https://www.marketwire.com/library/20170329-F3-gr.jpg
View looking west (shows north-south mineralized thickness):
https://www.marketwire.com/library/20170329-F1-gr.jpg
Also of note, it looks like a recent drill hole, OAX-17-090, hit high-grade gold in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th stacked high-grade veins/structures - from the top.
Also, other recent Orenada drill holes provided somewhat similar types of impacts, going down.