ASX Release - 17 November 2021
Corporate StructureIssued Shares: 1.391 billion onlyIssued Options: 92.6 million
Share Price: $ 0.10
Market Cap (15/11/21): A$139m
Titan Minerals Ltd (ASX:TTM) is an xplorer and developer of the rich cordilleras of the Andes in Southern Ecuador.
Titan's main projects are rich in
porphyry | copper, gold and |
usesilver mineralisation and range | |
from early-stage exploration to | |
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They include:
1. Dynasty Gold Project;
2. Copper Duke Project;
3. Linderos Project;
4. Jerusalem Project.
Board of Directors
P t r G Cook - Non-execChairman Laurie Marsland - Managing Director
Nicholas Rowley - Non Exec Director
ForBa y Bourne - Non Exec Director
Zane Lewis- Company Secretary
Key Management
Mike Skead - Executive Vice
President Exploration
High-grade Gold & Silver at the Dynasty Project
The Board of Titan has now received a second batch of assay data for a further 11 diamond core holes from the ongoing evaluation and validation works at the Cerro Verde Prospect in its Dynasty Project. In addition, new trench data completed in parallel with the drilling has been received from the Cerro Verde and Iguana Prospect areas.
HIGHLIGHTS
Cerro Verde Prospect
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Excellent resource definition and extensional results received from a further 11 diamond core holes. Better results include:
o 5.49m @ 5.33g/t gold with 259g/t silver from 58.3m in CVD023
- 9.22m @ 2.46g/t gold with 11g/t silver from 169.1m in CVD022
- 3.12m @ 4.57g/t gold with 10g/t silver from 154.97m in CVD027
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Trench channel results continue to support continuity of mineralisation along strike and detailed mapping has revealed additional vein density at surface. Better results include:
o 15.0m @ 6.20g/t gold with 35g/t silver in trench channel CVC022
- 4.67m @ 11.91g/t gold with 180g/t silver in trench channel CVC023
- 2.86m @ 26.25g/t gold with 119g/t silver in trench channel CVC024
- 7.27m @ 5.19g/t gold with 250g/t silver in trench channel CVC026
- 1.88m @ 10.2g/t gold with 94g/t silver in trench channel CVC027
Iguana Prospect
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Iguana trench results support continuity of modelled veins at surface, with better results including:
o 5.71m @ 3.95g/t gold with 15g/t silver in trench channel IGC019
- 3.11m @ 4.48g/t gold with 8.2g/t silver in trench channel IGC020
- 4.73m @ 3.57g/t gold with 73g/t silver in trench channel IGC022
Drilling Program Update
- Titan is planning to continue works with 4 diamond rigs until December 17, 2021. At this point it will pause its drilling to enable assay data to catch up with the physical drill progress. Drilling is expected to recommence in the new year after a review of the results from the current works.
Other Works
- In parallel to the drilling at the Dynasty Project, works continue at the Copper Ridge and Meseta Prospects in the Linderos Project. Also, initial plans for drilling at the Copper Duke Project have commenced with the plan to validate historical drilling.
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DYNASTY GOLD PROJECT (100%)
As has been previously reported Titan commenced another phase of resource definition and extensional drilling late June Quarter.
To date the man portable rigs have completed 83 holes for | |
17,189 metres of diamond coring. The previous | |
announcement by Titan (refer ASX release of September 9, | |
2021) reported on the first 18 holes of this program. | |
This announcement provides an update on the next 11 holes | |
that have targeted multiple vein targets in the overall Cerro | |
Verde vein cluster. It also reports on the trench channel | |
sampling being completed in conjunction with the drilling. The | |
Cerro Verde prospect defines an extensive cluster of ramifying | |
low sulfidation epithermal veins in the southwest of the overall | |
Dynasty Project. | Figure 1. Titan Projects in Southern Ecuador |
The Dynasty Gold Project is an advanced stage exploration project comprising 5 contiguous titles and 139km2 in area. Three of these concessions received Environmental Authorisation in 2016 and are fully permitted for exploration and small-scale mining.
Exploration works at Dynasty have outlined an extensive zone of epithermal veining over a 9km strike and over 1km in width. It remains open in most directions and its contiguous nature appears only to be a limitation on drilling and surface trenching due to topography and land access complications.
Previous explorers had generated a Canadian NI 43-101 resource estimate referred to as a foreign resource and is not yet considered JORC 2012 compliant which essentially breaks the prospects strike into three main Prospects: Papayal; Iguana; and Cerro Verde (refer to Figure 2). This resource estimate was compiled using a dataset of 1,160 trenches and 26,733 metres of diamond core. In addition, that resource has been validated by a phase of open pit mining of outcropping veins in five separate areas within the Cerro Verde Prospect. Mining reconciliations were strongly positive with the net overall outcome of a more than 600,000t sample delivering 169% of the resource tonnage at 85% of the resource grade and metallurgical recoveries (not finessed) of approximately 90%.
Figure 2. Dynasty Project showing key Prospects and foreign resource estimates
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The previous or foreign resource estimate was completed by polygonal methods is not reported in accordance with the JORC 2012 code. Titan considers that a 'competent person' as defined by that code has not completed sufficient work to classify or categorise it appropriately. (refer to Notes to Resource, and ASX Release dated 30 April 2020).
The initial drilling programs commenced by Titan have had a resource definition focus with an objective view to further validate the overall estimate. This has a first phase of increasing drill density to a nominal 40m (vertical) x 80m (along strike) pattern with an initial focus on the Cerro Verde Prospect due to its convenient access and logistics.
The first 18 holes of this program were released to the ASX on September 9, 2021. They confirmed the grades from previous estimates and also noted that mineralised halos up to five times wider than were adopted in the selective polygonal modelling in the previous resource estimate existed. It also advised of increased lateral continuity and a vertical extent of up to 450 metres from the high grade veins.
New Data
Assay results have now been returned from a further 11 diamond core holes drilled into the Cerro Verde Prospect.
All but one hole has returned significant intercepts in predictable positions from the down dip infill of the veins. As was the case with the previous reported drill holes some intercepts revealed multiple veins and bigger alteration halos suggesting that a larger tonnage at a lower grade from a bulking type approach may exist at current metal prices.
Very significantly. The holes showed an array of silver to gold ratio's suggesting multiple mineralising phases in what is a highly telescoped system. Silver to gold ratios up to 50:1 but typically in the 10:1 ratio suggest that a substantial silver credit will exist. So much so, that such silver credit may be enough cover mining costs or part of them which will significantly enhance project economics.
Figure 3. Ensillada & Brecha-Mango drilling
Diamond Coring
Add drill intercepts are included in Appendix A, however the more significant ones from these 11 holes include:
- Ensillada Vein (north-northeast trending)
- 5.49m @ 5.33g/t gold with 259g/t silver from 58.3m in CVD023
- Brecha - Mango Vein Corridor (east-west trending)
- 9.22m @ 2.46g/t gold with 11g/t silver from 169.1m in CVD022
- 3.12m @ 4.57g/t gold with 10g/t silver from 154.97m in CVD027
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Trench Channel Sampling
As part of the resource definition and extensional exploration programs additional surface trench sampling continues across outcropping veins. Two areas of focused sampling were completed on vein exposures remaining after shallow mining in the north-central part of the Cerro Verde Prospect on the Copetona-Foto-Gorda Vein corridor (Figures 3 & 4).
The three veins targeted are each discrete drilling targets hosting significant gold mineralisation. The intersections of these veins represent the potential for high-grade plunging shoots of mineralisation that require follow-up drilling.
Surface channels samples were taken on each each vein to give an approximate true width result. All channel samples returned strong high- grade results with high silver to gold ratios in the veins with wider blow-outs at the intersections of the veins.
Figure 4: Foto-Gorda-Copetona Vein Corridor, diamond drill hole collar location and recent channel sampling locations.
- La Gorda Vein (north-northeast trending with average width of 1.9m & >350m strike)
- Channel CVC026 - 7.27m @ 5.19g/t gold with 250g/t silver
- Channel CVC027 - 1.88m @ 10.2g/t gold with 94g/t silver
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Copetona - Foto Vein Intersection
(Copetona is north trending has an average width of 1.5m and a strike of >280m) - Channel CVC022 - 15m @ 6.20g/t gold with 35g/t silver
- Foto Vein (east-west trending with average width of 2.83m & >70m strike)
- Channel CVC023 - 4.67m @ 11.91g/t gold with 180g/t silver
- Channel CVC024 - 2.86m @ 26.25g/t gold with 119g/t silver
- Channel CVC029 - 2.65m @ 3.80g/t gold with 51g/t silver
- Channel CVC030 - 4.25m @ 4.02g/t gold with 36g/t silver
- Foto-Gordaintersection
- Channel CVC025 - 9.99m @ 1.88g/t gold with 46g/t silver
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IGUANA PROSPECT
Works have also commenced on the Iguana Prospect in the centre of the Dynasty Project (Figure 2.)
The Iguana Prospect is a 2.5km long structural corridor hosting multiple gold-silver veins that trend northeast from the highly prospective Cerro Verde Prospect area (Figure 5). Historical drill and trench results cover just over 1km of strike on the Iguana vein corridor (refer to ASX release dated 19 May
2020). Better intercepts in the historical drilling at the Iguana Prospect include:
- 6.75m @ 4.14g/t gold and 43g/t silver from 81.4m - DDH069
- 3.8m @ 9.55g/t gold and 23g/t silver from 76.8m - DDH073
- 8.5m @ 13.9g/t gold and 55g/t silver from 97.3m - DDH103
- 4.82m @ 7.59g/t gold and 22g/t silver from 111.18m - DDH116
Titan reported results from an additional 20 holes in February 2021 drilled on along more than 500m of strike at Iguana. Drilling provided the first oriented core at the Dynasty Gold project and provide structural controls to define vein geometries for modeling updates. Drilling matches widths and grades of previous drilling with better results from recent drilling including:
- 4.94m @ 6.28 g/t gold and 16 g/t silver from 82.22m - IGD007
- 2.28m @ 6.82g/t gold and 88g/t silver from 24.52m - IGD010
- 2.69m @ 7.54 g/t gold and 38 g/t silver from 125.76m - IGD013
- 3.80m @ 6.92 g/t gold and 30 g/t silver from 117.20m - IGD015
New Results and Discussion
Six trenches completed on 10 metre line spacing on the El Cisne Branch vein of the Iguana Corridor were excavated to define a new north-northeast branch from El Cisne vein System (4.5 metres width/102 metres long) (Figure 4). Better results from the trenching includes- (refer to Appendix B)
- 5.71m @ 3.95g/t gold - IGC019
- 3.11m @ 4.48g/t gold - IGC020
- 4.73m @ 3.57g/t gold - IGC022
Figure 5. Iguana Prospect, El Cisne Vein
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