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These have left volcanoclastic deposits and andesitic lavas found together with intercalated turbidic marine sediments corresponding to tertiary sedimentary formations.
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The mineralized zone occurs from 268.75 metres to 288.6 metres in a volcanoclastic breccia mineralized with sphalerite, argentite and galena.
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The mineralized zone occurs from 268.75 metres to 288.6 metres in a volcanoclastic breccia mineralized with sphalerite, argentite and galena.
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The mineralized zone occurs from 268.75 metres to 288.6 metres in a volcanoclastic breccia mineralized with sphalerite, argentite and galena.
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The belt is composed of numerous lenticular bodies of lava and pyroclastic material of felsic composition, varying from dacite to rhyolite, embedded in a thick series of predominantly mafic volcanoclastic rocks, mainly andesite with lesser amounts of basalts, with numerous intercalations of diverse sedimentary rocks, like radiolarian cherts, carbonate rocks, and tuffs.
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The geologic setting resembles the Company's Santa Ana silver deposit, but with higher gold, arsenic, mercury and antimony values contained within even more permeable volcanoclastic host rock making Tassa a bulk-tonnage, outcropping, disseminated silver (gold) epithermal-type target.
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The sulphide minerals are locally concentrated beneath a series of altered volcanoclastic beds, which may have acted as impermeable caps.
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Situated some 250 km north-west of Palito, the Pison project is located in volcanics and volcanoclastic sediments of intermediate to felsic composition with associated high level granitoid intrusions.
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