Rio Seco
Copper Project, located in the district of Humay, province of Pisco, department of Ica, 260 kilometers south of the city of Lima; It is an IOCG deposit (Iron Oxide Copper Gold), located in layers of volcanic rocks of the Quilmaná Formation, controlled by inter-stratified sedimentary levels with andesites, rhyolites and rhyodacites.
The San Martin mantle is found in three different ways. 1 ° in the sedimentary levels, 2 ° in contact between the sedimentary levels (to the floor) and the gabrodioritic intrusives (to the roof) and 3 ° inside the gabrodioritic intrusives. There is the presence of a contact Low-grade failure to the roof (over-runoff)
The San Martin mantle, has moderate folds with dip that go from 20 ° to 30 ° of heading NW - SE. The mineralization consists of magnetite, with pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and erythrine as an accessory mineral, associated with mantles of Actinolite and Tremolite (in smaller proportion).
It is considered diamond drill programs of 5,000 meters and Geophysical studies, to explore and develop the underground mine.
Rio Seco is a Brownfield project for the expansion to the east and south of the Eliana mine, a deposit that was extracted in two stages a total of 993,000 TMS with 2.09% Cu. The first stage from 1,968 to 1,975 by Minera del Cobre S.R.L. and the second stage from 2,008 to 2,013 by mining company Emproyec S.A.C .; The project consists in the exploration of areas adjacent to the mine through exploration with diamond drilling programs of 5,000 meters and studies of Geophysics, with the objective of identifying the potential of the San Martin mantle and other mantles, as well as interpreting the location of the veins