Silver Spruce Obtains SEMARNAT Approval for Informe Preventivo and Granted Permit to Drill El Mezquite Au Project, Sonora, Mexico
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Silver Spruce Obtains SEMARNAT Approval for Informe Preventivo and Granted Permit to Drill El Mezquite Au Project, Sonora, Mexico
April 20, 2021 - Bedford, NS - (TSXV:SSE) - Silver Spruce Resources Inc. ("Silver Spruce" or
| the environmental | |
| application required for drilling on the El Mezquite Project (“El Mezquite” or the “Property”). | |
| The permit was received and |
(“Yaque”) by the Mexican Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) for El Mezquite, a drill-ready precious metal project located 10 km northwest of the town of Tepoca, and 170 km southeast of the capital city of Hermosillo, eastern Sonora, Mexico.
“We are very pleased to move forward from the permitting to the drilling activities for El Mezquite. The environmental application for Yaque was very thorough and required no revisions for its approval. The timely receipt of the permit speaks volumes to the high-quality technical report
| ,” stated Greg Davison, Silver Spruce Vice- | |
| President Exploration and Director. “The Company has completed the planning for the Phase 1 | |
| 2,000 metre drill program and will select the drill contractor shortly. Mobilization of the rig and | |
| geological team to the Property is planned during the first week of May.” |
Figure 1. Looking north to principal gossan and alteration zones and El Mezquite Phase 1 drill targets; easy access to ranch trail from Highway #16 crossing E-W in background.
Silver Spruce contracted Green & Ceo, Asesorío Profesional y Securidad en Ambiente, of Hermosillo, Sonora to manage the environmental permitting process.
The permit allows for fourteen (14) drill pads over the targets in the northern area of the concession as tabulated below in Table 1.
Table 1. Proposed and permitted pads and collars for Phase 1 El Mezquite exploration drill program
| DDH Pad M1 M2 M3 M4 | DDH Collar Mez-1 Mez-2 Mez-3 Mez-4 Mez-5 Mez-6 Mez-7 Mez-8 | WGS 84 UTM E 666240 666240 666240 666240 666240 666305 666305 666355 | WGS 84 UTM N 3148405 3148405 3148530 3148530 3148530 3148240 3148240 3148460 | Azimuth 270 180 135 225 315 135 or 90 180 270 | Direction W S SE SW NW SE or E S W | Elevation (m) 747 747 755 755 755 739 739 748 | Dip 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 | Depth (m) 100 100 100 175 100 100 100 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mez-9 | 666355 | 3148460 | 180 | S | 748 | 45 | 150 | |
| M5 | Mez-10 Mez-11 | 666355 666360 | 3148460 3148280 | 135 270 | SE W | 748 736 | 45 45 | 100 100 |
| M6 | Mez-12 Mez-13 Mez-14 | 666360 666315 666315 | 3148280 3148380 3148380 | 180 225 or 270 135 | S SW or W SE | 736 748 748 | 45 45 45 | 100 100 100 |
| M7 | Mez-15 | 666065 | 3148420 | 315 | NW | 753 | 45 | 100 |
| Mez-16 | 666065 | 3148420 | 0 | N | 753 | 45 | 100 | |
| M8 | Mez-17 | 666250 | 3148695 | 180 | S | 767 | 45 | 100 |
| Mez-18 | 666250 | 3148695 | 135 | SE | 767 | 45 | 100 | |
| M9 | Mez-19 | 666325 | 3148780 | 180 | S | 780 | 45 | 100 |
| M10 B1 B2 | Mez-20 Mez-21 Mez-22 Mez-23 | 666120 666325 666275 666275 | 3148280 3148660 3148855 3148855 | 180 270 or 315 180 135 | S W or NW S SE | 739 766 798 798 | 45 45 45 45 | 100 100 100 100 |
| B3 | Mez-24 | 666135 | 3148580 | 135 | SE | 798 | 45 | 100 |
| B4 | Mez-25 Mez-26 Mez-27 | 666135 666345 666345 | 3148580 3148530 3148530 | 180 135 or 180 225 | S S or SE SW | 760 751 751 | 45 45 45 | 100 100 175 |
| Total | 2900 |
Project Background
The 180-hectare Property is easily accessible from Mexican Highway #16 via a southerly-trending unpaved road which traverses through the centre of the known gold mineralization (see Figure 1). High voltage power lines are positioned along Highway #16.
The El Mezquite Project is located within the west-central portion of the Sierra Madre Occidental Volcanic Complex within the prominent northwest-trending “Sonora Gold Belt” of northern Mexico and parallel to the well-known, precious metals-rich Mojave-Sonora Megashear (see Figure 2).
The Property is very well situated in terms of logistics for exploration and is located only twelve kilometres northwest of the Nicho deposit currently under mine development by Minera Alamos.
El Mezquite
Figure 2. Location Map of El Mezquite Property and Mines of the Sierra Madre Occidental
Qualified Person
Greg Davison, PGeo, Silver Spruce VP Exploration and Director, is the Company’s internal Qualified Person for the El Mezquite Project and is responsible for approval of the technical content of this press release within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"), under TSX guidelines.
About Green & Ceo
Green & Ceo, Asesorío Profesional y Securidad en Ambiente (Professional Advisory and Safety in the Environment), based in Hermosillo, Mexico, specializes in solving, optimally and sustainably, all matters of Environmental Management, Safety and Hygiene, typical of current Economic Development. Green & Ceo is a CEDES Accredited Service Provider (Prestador de Servicios Acreditado por CEDES).
With its background of knowledge and more than 12 years of experience in this type of permit for the mining industry, Green & Ceo takes investors hand in hand to obtain Authorizations, Licenses, Permits, as well as the Environmental Management and Security of any economic venture (www.green-ceo.com). In particular, the Permit has been developed by Sr. Saul Ruiz (Green Star) who has a track record of more than twenty-seven years.
About Silver Spruce Resources Inc.
Silver Spruce Resources Inc. is a Canadian junior exploration company which has signed Definitive Agreements to acquire 100% of the Melchett Lake Zn-Au-Ag project in northern Ontario, and with Colibri Resource Corp. in Sonora, Mexico, to acquire 50% interest in Yaque Minerales S.A de C.V. holding the El Mezquite Au project, a drill-ready precious metal project, and 50% interest in Colibri’s early stage Jackie Au project, with both properties located only 12 and 6 kilometres west from Minera Alamos’s Nicho deposit, respectively. The Company also is pursuing exploration of the drill-ready and fully permitted Pino de Plata Ag project, located 15 kilometres west of Coeur Mining’s Palmarejo Mine, in western Chihuahua, Mexico. Silver Spruce Resources Inc. continues to investigate opportunities that Management has identified or that have been presented to the Company for consideration.
Contact:
Silver Spruce Resources Inc.
Greg Davison, PGeo, Vice-President Exploration and Director (250) 521-0444 [email protected]
Brian Penney, Chairman (902) 430-8270 [email protected] www.silverspruceresources.com
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