001 Picha Presentation October 2014

CREATING VALUE THROUGH DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AMERICA
Picha Project
Copper-Silver-Lead-Zinc
Available for Option Contract
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General Setting
• Located in NE Moquegua, 120 km
ENE of Arequipa
• 3,000 ha in five mining concessions
• Elevations range from 4,000 m to
Chucapaca
6.1 M oz gold
4,300 m
• 15 km ENE of Buenaventura´s
Chucapaca 6.1 M oz gold resource
discovery
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Access
• Flight Lima-Juliaca (2 hours)
• Juliaca to Puno 45 km on paved
road (0.75 hours)
• Puno to Jesus Maria 90 km on a
reasonably maintained gravel
road (3 hours)
Access trail through the Jesus Maria village
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Historic Exploration Activities
• Mapping and sampling since 1996
• IP and magnetic survey 2011
• Drill permit for 20 platforms
IP Survey
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Geology
Lithologies
• Early Miocene andesitic
and basaltic lavas, tuffs
and agglomerates (Tacaza
Formation)
• Late Miocen lake
sediments interbedded
with acid and intermediate
volcanics (Maure
Maure Formation (whitish) overlying Tacaza Formation
Formation)
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Geology
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Alteration
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Mineralization
Geochemical sampling
• Silver to 880 g/t
• Copper to 3.24 %
• Lead to 26.76 %
• Zinc to 1.08 %
• Principal minerals: malachite,
azurite, crisocola, galena and
sphalerite
Trench sampling
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Silver Geochemical Sampling
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Copper Geochemical Sampling
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Lead Geochemical Sampling
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Zinc Geochemical Sampling
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Mineralization
Hydrothermal breccia - Cobremani prospect,
andesite clasts in quartz and crisocola matrix
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Mineralization
Oxide stockwork veining in andesite - Cobremani prospect
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Six Artesanal and Colonial Mineworkings
Fundición
Tomillo
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Geophysics – Chargeability / Resistivity at 200 m Depth
4 km x 1.5 km
chargeability
anomaly, indicating
extensive sulphide
presence at depth
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Exploration Potential
• Discovery of Chucapaca style polymetallic precious metal – base
metal breccias and associated mantos, stockworks and veins within
and adjacent to the extensive chargeability anomaly
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