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Lara Project
Copper-Molybdenum
Porphyry
Available for Option Contract
CREATING VALUE THROUGH DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AMERICA
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General Setting
• Located 35 km to the NE of Palpa and
approximately 350 km SE of Lima
• 1,800 ha in three mining concessions
• Elevations range from 1,500 m to
2,500 m
• Western Peruvian Cretaceous and
Lower Tertiary Cu-Mo porphyry belt
• The belt host world class copper
deposits as Toquepala, Cuajone,
Quellaveco and Cerro Verde
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Major Porphyry Systems in Peru
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Access
• 400 km from Lima to Palpa on
the Panamerican Highway
(5 hours)
• 32 km NE on a reasonably
maintained dirt road to
Hornopampa (1 hour)
• 8 km to the project site on a
tractor trail (requires upgrading)
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Access trail and drill roads
Historic Exploration Activities
• Mapping and sampling 1995
• IP and magnetic survey 1997 and
2011
• Several drill campaigns between
1997 and 2012 totalling
approximately 9,859 m in 48 holes
• Preliminary metallurgical testwork
on drill core 1998
• Inferred resource estimate 2005
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Drill core examination
Geology
Lithologies
• Coastal Batholith with
granodiorites and tonalites
is host to mineralization
• Two acid to intermediate
porphyry centers, Lara y
Chocos
• Rhyolite porphyry dykes
• Late andesitic and dacitic
dykes
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Coastal Batholith host rock
Geology
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Lara Socos
Geology
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Lara Socos
Geology
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General view of the Lara target area
Geology
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Alteration
• Potassic, phyllic, argillic
and propylitic alteration
Phyllic alteration in Lara zone
Geology
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Alteration
• Potassic, phyllic, argillic
and propylitic alteration
Leached intrusive with phyllic alteration
and hematite lined quartz stockwork veining
Geology
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Leached feldspar-porphyry with phyllic alteration and
closely spaced hematite lined sheeted quartz veins
Geophysics - Chargeability
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Lara Socos
Mineralization
• Leach cap (30 m to 80 m)
• Oxide blanket with malachite,
crisocolla, azurite and black copper
oxides (tenorite and neotocite)
(5 m to 20 m)
• Supergene enriched blanket with
chalcocite and minor covelite
(10 m to 40 m)
• Primary mineralization with
chalcopyrite, pyrite and minor
bornite
• High pyrite-chalcopyrite ratio
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Diamond drilling
Mineralization - Geological Section North 8411350
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Mineralization - Leach-Oxide-Enrichment Zone
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Mineralization - Oxides, Enrichment and Hypogene
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Drill Core - Leach Zone
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Leached intrusive with
abundant hematite and
quartz veinlets to 10 mm
Drill Core - Oxide Zone
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Malachite and black
copper oxides (tenorite
and neotocite) on
fracture
Drill Core - Enrichment Zone
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Sericite-biotite-K-spar
altered intrusive with
abundant disseminated
chalcocite coated pyrite
and chalcopyrite as well
as black copper oxides
(tenorite and neotocite)
and minor malachite
Drill Core – Primary Mineralization
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Sericite altered intrusive
with quartz-pyrite +/-
chalcopyrite veinlets to 4
mm and 3 % disseminated
pyrite
Resource Estimate
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ef
Nebocat 2005
• 18.6 Mt @ 0.53 % Cu (0.20 % Cu cut-off)
3-D drillhole modeling
Exploration Results
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ef
Exploration Potential
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ef
• Extending the oxide and enrichment blanket in the area between Lara
and Socos as well as in Socos
• Confirming large volume primary mineralization within the 2,000 m x
800 m target zone including Lara, Socos and the adjacent IP and
geochemical anomalies