Vela Minerals Completes Work Program on the Mavis Bank and Port Antonio Properties, Jamaica, West Indies
28.04.2014 | The Newswire
Vancouver, April 28, 2014 / Vela Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: VLA) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that crews have completed ground work on the Mavis Bank and Port Antonio Special Exclusive Prospecting Licenses located in Jamaica, West Indies.Orchard Spring Area:
Follow-up rock and soil sampling was performed in a newly discovered zone located in the south-central portion of the Orchard Spring area. The new (2014) area is located 20 meters south of a 2013 rock sample site and returned values of 183 ppb Au, 9.48 ppm Ag, and 4.57% Cu (#164859). A second area of discovery located approximately 400 meters to the southeast returned values of 8.0% Cu, 15.2 ppm Ag, 16 ppb Au, and 27800 ppm As (#164861).
A total of 12 rock chip samples were taken in the Orchard Spring Area:
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|Sample ID|Au ppb|Ag ppm|Cu ppm|Cu %|Co ppm|
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|164851 |7 |0.3 |3650 |0.37|30.7 |
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|164852 |22 |0.19 |1670 |0.17|35.2 |
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|164853 |11 |0.14 |155 |0.02|18.5 |
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|164854 |7 |0.07 |491 |0.05|20.4 |
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|164855 |8 |0.13 |534 |0.05|18.1 |
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|164856 |26 |0.18 |9080 |0.91|6.7 |
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|164857 |<1 |0.06 |3460 |0.35|4.8 |
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|164858 |6 |0.06 |4180 |0.32|10.5 |
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|164859 |183 |9.48 |>10000|4.57|547 |
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|164860 |12 |0.45 |6650 |0.67|398 |
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|164861 |16 |15.2 |>10000|8.0 |4400 |
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|164862 |11 |0.51 |5340 |0.53|65.9 |
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The Orchard Spring mineral occurrences are hosted in Eocene Halberstadt Formation limestone, Wagwater Trough clastic sedimentary rocks (shale, sandstone, & conglomerate), and volcanic rocks (andesite, dacite tuffs/flows). Alteration minerals found within and surrounding the microgranodiorite intrusive rocks include quartz-calcite-sericite-chlorite. Intrusion related mineralization consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, bornite, azurite & malachite, with minor amounts of cobaltite and erythrite.
Textures found at Orchard Spring display quartz-carbonate-sulphide-oxide bearing mineral zones cutting massive magnetite, suggesting there is low temperature of formation, late stage infiltration, and fracture filling of Cu-Ag-Au bearing mineralization as vein, replacement, and/or breccia deposits.
Essex-Bloxshaw Area:
This zone is located 100-600 meters northwest of Orchard Spring and linked by a major north trending fault structure that is visible as a regional air-photo lineament. Sample 164865 was taken in this area and returned values of 4 ppb Au, and 1920 ppm Cu.
Epping Area:
Exposed bedrock was sampled in the south-central portion of the 2013 soil grid at a site that returned values of 2010 ppm Cu and 11 ppb Au. This area is underlain by Cretaceous age Main Ridge Group volcaniclastic lithologies that feature widespread phyllic alteration and variable chalcopyrite, chalcocite, and bornite. Anomalous gold and copper anomalies were returned from 2 sample sites.
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|Sample ID|Au ppb|Ag ppm|Cu ppm|Cu %|As ppm|Co ppm|
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|164863 |24 |0.28 |492 |0.05|20.6 |15 |
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|164864 |<1 |0.07 |49.2 |0.01|22 |13.1 |
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Mount Rosana is a 300 meter diameter clay-altered volcanic center, producing a distinctive upstanding landform, located approximately 750 meters southeast of Orchard Spring. The close proximity to the Mount Rosana volcanic center suggests that the extensive faulting and folding (anticline/syncline structures) as well as silicate, carbonate, and oxide alteration minerals common in the surface area may represent an epithermal intrusive system at depth.
Port Antonio:
Two rock samples were taken in the central and south margin of the Bellevue leached lithocap. Both rock samples exhibit strong silicification (8-30% quartz as veining and breccia), & contain spongy, porous, and cellular texture limonite and hematite. Despite strong leaching, geochemical analysis of rock sample 164866 indicates above average Au & Ba values, and sample 164867 contains elevated Ag, As, Ba, &Te values:
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|Sample ID|Au ppb|Ag ppm|Cu ppm|As ppm|Te ppm|Ba ppm|
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|164866 |206 |0.16 |13.4 |6.2 |0.09 |4150 |
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|164867 |11 |1.4 |24.5 |43.7 |8.71 |2620 |
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Sample 164866 returned 206 ppb Au and was taken from an area of increased silicification as well as a chargeability high exhibited by historical IP geophysical surveys.
A total of 26 geology stations within the 1.5 X 1.5 kilometer area of the leached lithocap were mapped and sampled in order to identify lithology, minerals, alteration, and textures.
The Bellevue area is underlain by andesitic-dacitic volcanic rocks (porphyritic and fine grain tuffs/flows) which are cut by occasional 2-5 meter wide Cretaceous granodiorite-diorite intrusive dykes/sills. The Bellevue lithocap is characterized by widespread argillic alteration and strong bleaching of country rock accompanied by 2-8% limonite (goethite & jarosite), hematite, chlorite, sericite, zeolite, and kaolinite as disseminations and fracture fillings.
Samples were shipped directly from Kingston, Jamaica to AGAT Laboratories in Mississauga, Ontario for 32 element ICP & Au geochemical analysis.
Technical information in this news release has been reviewed by Derrick Strickland P.Geo., a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101.
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“Derrick Strickland P.Geo”
President
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