Vancouver-based Silver Hammer Mining has re-ported positive exploration results from a rock sampling and mapping programme that encouraged the company to more than double the Silverton silver project area through the staking of additional claims.
New samples from the project in Nevada, the U.S., combined with structural information acquired in the field, suggest the historically mined silver zone extends to southwest. It potentially continue under colluvium and post-mineral volcanic rocks, Silver Hammer Mining said in a statement.
“Based on our exploration completed to date at the Silverton Project, where minor silver production occurred in the 1930s, we believe that the historical mining developed just a small portion of a significantly larger zone or system of silver mineralization that has now been shown to extend hundreds of metres southwest of the old mine,” said Morgan Lekstrom, the company’s president and CEO.
“Detrital sediments and young volcanic rocks appear to overlie and obscure the silver mineralized system southwest of the mine and we now believe that the strike extent of the system could be significantly expanded. Consequently, we have filed for 19 additional claims in a block that is contiguous with our original six-claim Silverton Project,” he said.