Ormonde completes preliminary diamond drilling programme

Ormonde Mining has announced the completion of a preliminary diamond drilling programme on the Portas Prospect at its Trives Gold Project in northwest Spain, one of Ormonde’s five active Spanish gold projects.

Six core drill holes (for a total of 870 metres) were completed in an exploratory programme designed to establish the continuity of gold mineralization interpreted to be associated with a shear-zone exposed in Roman workings. Additionally, the drilling aimed to provide a better understanding of geological features which control gold mineralization in the area.

The outcomes of the programme, being the first modern exploration to test the depth and strike extensions of surface mineralization at Portas, included:

- Extensive quartz veining, brecciation, hydrothermal alteration and sulphide mineralization (pyrite, arsenopyrite), all typical features of shear-zone hosted gold systems, were encountered by the drilling

- Altered felsic intrusions, not observed at surface, have been identified in drill core; a close spatial association with such rocks is common in shear-zone hosted gold systems worldwide

- Visible gold observed in several quartz veins