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Ccello Ccello Property ("Ccello Ccello"): The 3,200-hectare gold-silver Ccello Ccello prospect is a three-hour drive from Peru's second largest city, Arequipa, and is road-accessible. Elevations range from 4,800 meters above sea level in the valleys to peaks over 5,300 meters above sea level.
Prior to its acquisition by Gallant Minerals Peru in 2000, Ccello Ccello was unexplored. Subsequent mapping and sampling on the property delineated a large zone of high level opaline silica, clay, and alunite alteration in proximal volcanic facies dacitic and andesitic rocks. A prominent north-northwest structural zone hosts graben-fill talus breccia rock consisting of poorly sorted, opaline silica and volcanic rock fragments cemented by iron oxide and localized silica-pyrite matrix. This zone is highly anomalous in mercury, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth, elements commonly associated with productive, epithermal gold and silver systems. The northeast structural corridor of the recently acquired La Tola Property trends onto the property and intersects the anomalous alteration at Ccello Ccello.
Recent work performed by Estrella Gold in 2007 included 40 line kilometers of magnetometry. This survey has begun to refine structural controls as well as mapped out an apparant east-west trending dome margin where the rock is intensely altered yielding a marked magnetic low. The magnetic survey also shows a mag low in the area of the highest level geochemical anomalies to the north along what is now interpreted to be a graben structure.
While surface sampling has returned only low level gold values up to 40 ppb, the property remains an intriguing exploration play. The geology along the 12 kilometer long northeast structural corridor leading into the La Tola Property is not a great deal different than that where Aurlien Resources have had huge success in Ecuador at their Fruto del Norte project.
Ccello Ccello has received little attention over the last 3 years but has emerged as a provocative gold-silver exploration play when combined with the La Tola Property. Consolidating two properties has not only strenghtened the project strategically but has galvanized the geologic interpretation.
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