Montero Mining completes comprehensive Potrero Gold study in Chile’s Maricunga Belt

Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd (TSX-V:MON, OTC:MXTRF) said connected Monday it has completed a elaborate exploration and information compilation programme astatine its Potrero golden task successful Chile’s Maricunga Belt, a prolific mining territory successful bluish Chile.

The program, which incorporated precocious analytics and instrumentality learning techniques, aimed to refine the geological and structural knowing of the task and measure its imaginable for golden mineralization astatine depth, the institution said.

Potrero is located astir 50 km southeast of El Salvador and 20 km northbound of Kinross’ La Coipa mine, successful a territory that besides hosts Gold Fields’ Salares Norte excavation and Rio2’s Fenix project. The task comprises a contiguous bundle of mining concessions covering interpreted hydrothermal alteration and structural corridors identified to date.

Montero’s exploration programme included geological mapping astatine 1:10,000 scale, high-resolution geochemical sampling utilizing four-acid digestion ICP-MS methods, investigation of outer imagery for clay and robust oxide mapping, and reprocessing of 189 line-kilometres of humanities magnetic survey data. In addition, the institution completed astir 28 line-kilometres of induced polarization and resistivity surveys.

“The completion of this integrated programme represents an important measurement guardant successful our knowing of Potrero,” Montero CEO Dr. Tony Harwood said.

“Rather than focusing connected isolated anomalies, we are taking a systematic approach, combining elaborate fieldwork with AI-assisted modelling and modern visualization tools to place and prioritize areas for further analysis.”

Historic exploration astatine Potrero has included aboveground sampling, geophysical surveys, and drilling. Verde Resources Inc. reported intersections of golden successful reverse circulation drilling, including 126 metres astatine 0.44 g/t golden and aboveground drawback samples up to 7 g/t gold. Hochschild Mining aboriginal completed implicit 2,700 metres of diamond drilling, confirming the beingness of golden anomalies. Montero noted that it has not independently verified the humanities results.

Detailed geological mapping shows Potrero hosts a hydrothermal strategy wrong andesitic domes and breccias, with polydirectional quartz-limonite and quartz-magnetite stockwork veining emblematic of porphyry golden systems successful the Maricunga Belt. Geophysical surveys are being integrated with geological and geochemical datasets arsenic portion of ongoing AI-assisted modelling and three-dimensional visualization.

“This enactment is ongoing and volition usher the adjacent signifier of exploration starring to drill people explanation pursuing completion of the company's method valuation process,” Harwood noted.

Montero said it has commissioned an autarkic geochemical vectoring investigation with Fathom Geophysics, which volition beryllium integrated into the company’s evolving interpretation. The steadfast plans to proceed refining its geological, geochemical, and geophysical models.