Las Carboneras

A good story is one that has you wanting to turn the next page, and the one after that; it’s about anticipation of what’s to come. Las Carboneras is one such story. With its clear potential, it keeps us wanting to know what it will reveal to us next.

Alamos is currently conducting reconnaissance exploration programs at Las Carboneras, which is a northwesterly striking zone of silicic and advanced argillic alteration that stretches about six kilometres. This is an area that hosts several gold-in-soil anomalies that are coincident with Cerro Pelon-style hydrothermal breccia occurrences.

In the first quarter of 2010, Alamos completed geological reconnaissance, including a geochemical survey, in the West Zone of the alteration area, which lead to the discovery of a series of small gold-bearing geochemical anomalies that each cover an area of at least 250 metres by 250 metres.

We found that the West Zone has small Cerro-Pelon silicified breccias, with stratiform advanced argillic and stratabound silicic alteration extending into the North, East, and South Zones. Reconnaissance soil sampling has been completed over the East and South zones and is in the process of being compiled. Las Carboneras is being approached with the intention of generating targets to be drill-tested in 2011 and 2012.