Argentex Mining Corporation (AGXM.OB) announced that diamond drilling has commenced on the company’s 700 meter Marta Centro Zone. This zone was the company’s largest drilling operation to date, initially targeting the extensions of zinc, lead, indium, silver, copper, and gold deposits in this area. In the future, mineralization at Marta Centro is open to various direction.
However, Argentex has already begun further drill testing in this location as part of their 2007 – 2008 exploration program. The company is scheduled to test the 1,400 meter Yvonne vein, the 1,000-meter Marta Sur vein, Marta Este, the Kia, Savary, Marta Norte and Noroeste veins in the coming months. Argentex has also announced further plans for wider drilling throughout all properties, where only a small number of drill holes have been completed to date.
Ken Hicks, President of Argentex, stated “Marta Centro was our first sulphide-rich discovery on the Pinguino property. At the deepest depths drilled to date mineralization appears strong and shows no discernable change in grade or width when compared to shallower intersections. As part of this program we plan to test the projected extension of mineralization at a much greater depth. We have more than seven line kilometers of strongly anomalous linear chargeability anomalies in the immediate area of interest. Outside of Marta Centro and Marta Este, only a handful of holes have been drilled in the majority of those seven kilometers. All of the holes completed in the last phase of drilling were located in that seven kilometers of anomalous geophysics and all successfully found sulphide-rich targets. We are looking forward to an exciting season of discovery.”
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