Golden Minerals Company (“Golden Minerals”, “Golden” or the “Company”) (NYSE-A: AUMN and TSX: AUMN) is pleased to announce assay results from the first drill program ever conducted at its Sarita Este gold-silver-copper prospect in Salta Province, Argentina. The Company drilled 10 diamond drill (“DD”) holes totaling 2,518 meters (“m”) exploring several targets of untested epithermal gold-silver and copper porphyry targets. Highlights from the drilling include:
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Figure 1: Sarita Este project location map (Graphic: Business Wire)
Epithermal gold target:
- 9.9m @ 1.91 grams per tonne (“g/t”) Au and 5.0 g/t Ag including 3.7m @ 2.52 g/t Au and 5.3 g/t Ag
- 8.0m @ 1.74 g/t Au and 1.0 g/t Ag including 1.0m @ 12.0 g/t Au and 1.9 g/t Ag
- 3.7m @ 1.64 g/t Au and 0.3 g/t Ag including 1.0m @ 5.17 g/t Au and 0.3 g/t Ag
Porphyry copper target:
- 240m @ 0.13% Cu
- 130.5m @ 0.13% Cu including 6m @ 1.17% Cu