Canadian mining company will search for lead, silver and zinc in Jujuy

Grosso Group will implement project Chinchillas, located at 4,000 metres above sea level. The initiative will take place in Paraje Santo Domingo, between Abra Pampa and El Aguilar mine, in the middle of the Jujuy Puna.

The idea of the firm is to carry out the first searches of lead, silver and zinc in the forecoming months. It was thus confirmed by Jorge Mayoral, Mining Industry Chief of Staff who, together with Martín Fellner, Mining Investment and Regulations director of that department, met Gustavo Fulloni, Grosso Group representative.

In order to develop the polymetallic undertaking the mining company foresees to complete a 6,500-metre-drilling plan over the year. “The forward work will generate full employment in a far from the main city centres area which do not receive other formal investments, and this will include workers from Abra Pampa and Rinconada, many of which will have their first registered job,” Mayoral noted.

Chinchillas is not a virgin land; its exploration having started in mid 1996. A surface geochemical sampling in 1,200 trenches metres, within an area of 2km per 350 metres, allowed to identify evidence of silver, lead and zinc leaching. At the end of 1996 an RC Drilling programme was implemented in order to test two big surface defects: one eastern (of 325 per 150 metres), and one western (of 250 per 125 metres).

During this first phase, the complete planned programme was of 2,500 metres in some 20 wells for Chinchillas and two more properties: Centenario and El Oculto. But the test results were not challenging enough and the property has been abandoned to date.

Grosso Group, present in the country with Project Fierro (Río Negro), recently took part in the local mining authorities official trip to Vancouver (Canada) where the seminar ‘Argentinean Mining Industry, Investment Opportunities’ was held before businessmen and Canadian investors.