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| Index > Projects > Philippines Exploration > Leyte |
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 The Leyte project comprises two tenement groups (sub-projects) in southern Leyte, St. Bernard and the Sogod Joint Venture. The area has similar geology and is along trend from the Surigao gold district in northeast Mindanao, a very productive mineral district which includes the newly discovered Boyongan porphyry copper-gold deposit.
The properties include widespread areas of hydrothermal alteration associated with anomalous geochemistry. At the Pandan prospect within the Sogod JV, a previous exploration program in the 1970's that included 28 diamond drillholes (4574m) defined a drill indicated copper-lead-zinc-gold-silver resource of 1.334 million tonnes at 0.49% copper, 1.17% lead, 2.26% zinc, 0.48g/t gold and 9.63g/t silver (assumed not to JORC reporting standards). A major data review and further grid based exploration is proposed here.
On the approved St Bernard tenement, exploration by Indophil prior to 2002 defined a 3 sq km gold anomalous area of advanced-argillic alteration. Exploration during 2002 included grid based geological mapping and a 200 x 80m soil sampling program with some subsequent infill to 100m x 80m. The mapping has defined 3 areas of intense silica-clay-pyrite alteration, one of which appears associated with a breccia pipe ( Figure 6 ). The soil sampling defined coherent and near coincident weak to moderate gold and arsenic anomalies that will be the focus of future exploration, including geophysical surveys (IP) and selective diamond drilling. |
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