Warintza Project Series Of Holes Aimed At Growing Indicative Starter Pit
VANCOUVER - Solaris Resources Inc. report on a series of holes aimed at growing the ‘Indicative Starter Pit’ within the Warintza Central zone at its Warintza Projectin southeastern Ecuador. Mineral resource expansion drilling continues to target growth of the ‘Indicative Starter Pit’, an area of near surface, high-grade mineralization estimated at 180 Mt at 0.82% CuEq¹ (Indicated) and 107 Mt at 0.73% CuEq¹ (Inferred) in the Warintza Mineral Resource Estimate² (“MRE”). Recent drilling has expanded the Northeast Extension zone to the north-northeast where further step-outs are planned, while a 250m step-out on the opposite side of Warintza Central has expanded the zone to the northwest and opened up new potential.
SLS-72 was collared from a newly-constructed step out platform 200m to the northeast, returning 268m of 0.60% CuEq¹ within a broader interval of 830m averaging 0.50% CuEq¹ from 48m depth, extending the zone to the northeast where it remains open. SLS-71 was collared from the same platform within the northeast extension zone and drilled northwest into a partially open volume, returning 212m of 0.60% CuEq¹, including 50m of 0.87% CuEq¹, within a broader interval of 494m of 0.42% CuEq¹ from near surface. SLS-73 was collared from another newly-constructed step out platform 250m to the north, returning 26m of 0.96% CuEq¹ from near surface and 128m of 0.60% CuEq¹ within a broader interval, extending the zone to the northeast where it remains open.
These three holes expand the Northeast Extension zone to the east and northeast where two additional 200m step-out platforms have been planned for construction to test the potential extension of the zone beneath shallow saprolitic cover. On the opposite side of Warintza Central, SLS-74 was collared from a newly-constructed platform stepping out 250m to the northwest of the existing drill grid to test the potential extension of high grade, near surface mineralization – it returned 54m of 0.80% CuEq¹ from surface within a broader interval of 224m of 0.41% CuEq¹. SLS-74 includes lower grade mineralization within a porphyritic granodiorite modelled as the northwestern contact of Warintza Central – ongoing mapping and sampling aims to assess the potential for better-developed mineralization higher up in this intrusive phase in the 700m gap to Warintza West. Additional assays are expected soon from drilling targeting further growth at Warintza East, follow-up drilling at the recent high-grade Warintza Southeast discovery and the new Patrimonio discovery.