Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the results of ongoing exploration for district-scale porphyry-related gold mineralization in close proximity to the Cajueiro Central Mineral Resource . Highlights: A new target has been defined at Serafim, located 2km east of the existing Mineral Resource where rock chip sampling identified a hydrothermal breccia containing clasts of veined porphyry intrusive. This included a [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the results of recent trenching for metallurgical sample collection and testing of extensions to mineralized structures outside the Mineral Resource reported under NI 43-101 for the Cajueiro Central Project. Highlights: The collection of oxide zone metallurgical samples for column leach testwork confirmed prior high-grade intercepts in two trenches 6m @ 5.12 g/t gold 4m @ 9.50 [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the discovery of a new gold target, identified as part of the ongoing exploration program within the Cajueiro district which is targeting porphyry-related gold mineralization. Highlights: Geological mapping, soil sampling and trenching at the Guillermo target, 2.5 km to the north-east of the Central Resource area within the Cajueiro mineralized district has identified a new [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce further progress in the ongoing evaluation of porphyry-related gold mineralization within the Cajueiro project area. Highlights: Fieldwork at the Espirro target, south of the Mombaque intrusive, located 3.2km south-east of the Maria Bonita porphyry gold discovery, has identified veined and altered porphyry intrusive rocks within an area of historic placer workings Large blocks [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce further progress in the ongoing evaluation of porphyry-related gold mineralization within the Cajueiro project area. Highlights: Ongoing fieldwork at the Mombaque prospect, located 1.6km to the east of the Maria Bonita porphyry gold discovery, has defined a coherent gold-in-soil anomaly measuring up to 600m by 500m, coincident with prospective sericite-altered volcanic tuffs [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the discovery of newly discovered outcrops of porphyritic rocks within the Cajueiro project area. Highlights: Following the confirmation of a porphyry-style origin for the Maria Bonita gold mineralization by two respected consultants, and subsequent to the structural and geophysical studies of the entire Cajueiro claim block, the Company has identified several loci of potential [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. is pleased to update on ongoing exploration activities at the Cajueiro and Apiacas projects. Highlights: Results of the final two second-round diamond drillholes at the Maria Bonita discovery located within the Cajueiro project area were received and returned 32.7m @ 0.53 g/t gold in MBA030 and 46.5m @ 0.50 g/t gold in MBA031. Work continues on the analysis and interpretation of drill results. Recent [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce various further initiatives to explore the Cajueiro district in the light of the identification of porphyry hosted gold mineralization at the Maria Bonita discovery. Highlights: Field review of the drill core from the Maria Bonita discovery by renowned expert consultant, Dr R. Sillitoe has confirmed the porphyry origin of the mineralization. "Maria Bonita is undoubtedly a [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the results of 12 additional drill holes at the Maria Bonita gold discovery. Highlights: MBA029 returned 146m @ 1.0 g/t gold from 23m depth in hydrothermally altered rhyolite intrusive rocks. This interval is part of a wider zone of mineralization with the entire hole returning 213m @ 0.8 g/t gold and terminating in mineralization, indicating the mineralized body remains open [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the results of the first six drill holes completed in the second drill campaign at the Maria Bonita gold discovery. Highlights: DDMDA13 returned 139.4m @ 0.5 g/t gold from surface including 28m @ 0.9 g/t gold. DDMDA15 similarly returned 120.3m @ 0.5 g/t gold from 69.2m depth including 38.5m @ 0.9 g/t gold from 151m depth. DDMDA10 returned 160.0m @ 0.4 g/t gold from 36.0m depth [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the appointment of Pieter Le Roux to the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mike Bennett, Altamira's President and CEO commented, "I am very pleased to welcome Pieter to the Board of Directors. We believe Pieter's broad expertise in finance, portfolio & capital allocation, capital management, transformational M&A, investor & stakeholder engagement and reputation [...]
Altamira Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the results of initial column leach tests on mineralized drill core from the Maria Bonita gold discovery. Highlights: Column leach metallurgical tests of a composite drill core sample of mineralized saprolite material from the Maria Bonita gold discovery at Cajueiro, returned an excellent gold recovery of 88% for a feed size of 100% passing 9.5mm The Maria Bonita bedrock or [...]