Iberian Minerals Announces Drill Results From New Zone West of Aguas Tenidas Mine
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 10/25/11 -- Iberian Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE: IZN) is pleased to announce that as a result of the recent Titan 24 geophysical program and subsequent follow-up exploration drilling at Aguas Tenidas, a new massive sulphide zone has been delineated to the west of the old Aguas Tenidas Mine.
The old mine, located north of the current operation, and adjacent to the new zone, was in operation from 1916 to 1934, and produced 419,681 tonnes of 5.66% copper. High grade zinc/lead sulphides (with 10-15% combined zinc and lead) were also present; however this was not exploited at the time.
This new zone named 'Orebody MS-4' targeted the fourth geophysical anomaly of the Titan 24 results, and has approximate dimensions of 500 meters on strike, 200 meters on dip and an average thickness of 3.5 - 4 meters. The mineralization is similar to that of the Aguas Tenidas ores and would have an average specific gravity of 4.5 tonnes/ m3.
Drilling is continuing on this zone as it is open on both ends and downdip. Exploration drilling of other targets from the Titan 24 results is also ongoing.
The mineralized intersections of the past and latest drilled holes are summarized in the following table.
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Hole Length Depth Copper Zinc Lead Gold
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m % % % g/t
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SD-2bis (Asturiana) 4.00 from 300.00 m 2.80 - - -
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AM-3 (Placer Dome) 5.20 from 287.10 m 2.96 4.46 0.85 48.00
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5.50 from 297.90 m 0.62 8.87 1.85 79.00
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AM-5 (Placer Dome) 3.75 from 304.25 m 2.07 4.74 0.28 25.00
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AM-8 (Matsa) 3.00 from 459.60 m 0.42 8.73 2.22 81.65
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AM-11 (Matsa) 1.00 from 159.75 m 0.60 3.44 0.79 21.91
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AM-12 (Matsa) 4.45 from 220.10 m 6.40 0.70 0.20 21.21
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AM-15 (Matsa) 1.85 from 303.60 m 2.16 5.53 0.81 21.91
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AM-17 (Matsa) 1.20 from 318.30 m 0.95 4.39 0.46 43.06
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About Iberian Minerals Corp.
Iberian Minerals Corp. is a Canadian listed global base metals company with interests in Spain and Peru. The Condestable Mine, located in Peru approximately 90 km south of Lima operates at 2.2 million tonnes per year producing copper, and associated silver and gold in a concentrate. The Aguas Tenidas Mine is in the Andalucia region of Spain approximately 110 km north-west of Seville and operates a 1.7 million tonnes per year underground mine and concentrator that produces copper, zinc and bulk copper/lead concentrates that also contain gold and silver.
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Iberian Minerals Corp.
Laura Sandilands
Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
416-815-8558