JV Article: Solaris doubles drill program on major discovery at Warintza copper project in Ecuador
Aerial view of Warintza. Credit: Solaris Resources
Solaris Resources (TSX: SLS) has doubled the drill campaign, from six rigs to 12, following a significant new discovery at its Warintza copper project in Ecuador’s main mining district in the southeast, as geophysics revealed a much more extensive porphyry system than previously anticipated.
“It’s a much larger, more extensive system than surface geochemistry and mapping implied,” said Solaris CEO, Daniel Earle. The latest discovery highlights a laterally extensive mineralized system, building on the resource and recent drilling at Warintza Central where Solaris has successfully drilled high-grade copper mineralization up to 1% copper-equivalent and up to 1 km in depth starting from surface. “It’s larger than the CN tower at 553 metres – over a kilometre of high-grade copper mineralization, like two CN towers stacked on top of each other.”