Eaglecrest Confirms That San Simon's Buriti and Paititi Gold Zones Are Connected

 

VANCOUVER, BC - Eaglecrest Explorations Ltd. reported that a technical review of the most recent data from its sampling and trenching program confirms that the Buriti and Paititi zones are connected through the San Francisco zone that lies in between both Buriti and Paititi zones. The Buriti - San Francisco - Paititi trend lies across a mineralized width of up to 1.5 km, along a total length of approximately 7 km on the San Simon property in northeastern Bolivia.

Hans Rasmussen, President & COO of Eaglecrest, explained: "After the last two years of systematic soil and rock chip sampling and mapping, along with data compilation from old reports, we designed a trenching program to understand the distribution of gold mineralization in bedrock between the Buriti and Paititi zones. These results, when considered with the new faults and veins that are being mapped, indicate that gold mineralization is continuous between the Paititi and Buriti zones. The significance of this is that instead of Paititi being the only potential open-pit style gold resource, we now have several targets to drill between Paititi and Buriti with gold mineralization near surface."

Recent rock chip sampling from the surface high-grade gold zone at Buriti has helped to define the limits of the gold enrichment in and around the Buriti prospect. Of 122 samples, 30 had results greater than 1 gram per tonne gold. Assay results from surface rock chip and channel samples varied from below detection to 160 grams per tonne gold. The most promising results came from between the east-west trending faults that lie north and south of the mineralized areas. The Buriti zone is at the western end of the east-west Paititi-San Francisco-Buriti trend.

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