Montero Mining launches drill program at Elvira

The Vancouver-based inferior has finalized its drilling declaration and completed tract mentation up of a four-hole diamond drill programme totalling up to 2,000 metres.

Site readiness enactment includes roadworthy entree upgrades to enactment wintertime drilling conditions, constitution of a drill camp, and deployment of geological and tract enactment teams based successful the adjacent metropolis of Copiapo. The institution said each indispensable authorizations for the programme are obtained.

Priority drill targets astatine Elvira were identified done geological mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and humanities exploration data, and person been tract validated. Final drill collar locations were refined utilizing three-dimensional modelling supported by AI-assisted information interpretation.

"The institution has present moved into the operational signifier astatine Elvira pursuing completion of permitting, mobilization readying and drill people definition," said CEO Tony Harwood. "Significant groundwork has gone into preparing the task for drilling, peculiarly fixed the wintertime conditions and logistical requirements of operating successful the Maricunga Belt."

Upon completion of the Elvira program, the drilling contractor's instrumentality is expected to beryllium deployed to the company's adjacent Potrero task for a abstracted Phase 1 drill program.