Drilling at Emerita Resources’ Iberian Belt West project in Spain. Credit: Emerita Resources.
Drilling by Emerita Resources (TSXV: EMO) at its El Cura deposit in southwest Spain shows its potential to add significant tonnage with high-grade gold and copper to the larger Iberian Belt West (IBW) project, the company said Wednesday.
Drill hole EC067 returned 16.9 metres grading 1.4% copper, 2.1% zinc, 1% lead, 0.93 gram gold per tonne and 42.6 grams silver, as well as 3.1 metres at 1.1% copper, 1.5% lead, 3.5% zinc, 1.46 grams gold and 59.7 grams silver. IBW is near the border with Portugal, about 144 km west of Seville.
“The ongoing success of the drill program at El Cura has led us to approve an additional 10,000 meters of drilling as the deposit remains open for expansion and continues to deliver intercepts of excellent thickness and grade,” Emerita President Joaquin Merino said in a…
