Promesa commissions second laboratory to expedite gold drilling results in Peru

Promesa (ASX: PRA) has sent the remaining samples from exploration at the Cerro Curunday Project in Peru to a second  laboratory in order to speed up the turn-around of results.

The company has suspended drilling at Curunday to allow assays and QAQC processes to catch up with the drilling and field mapping programs.

Promesa has drilled 2,276.8 metres over 9 drill holes so far at Cerro Curunday, using a diamond drill rig for detailed logging and sampling.

Drilling at Curunday is designed to test a series of gold bearing zones identified by channel sampling and rock chip sampling along 2.1 kilometres strike of epithermal gold mineralisation.

The high level of exploration, mining and drilling activity in Peru has caused delays at the laboratory due to a backlog of samples.

Due to the delays in the delivery of assays, the diamond rig at Curunday will be demobilised until the drilling results and mapping information have been analysed to determine the next step in exploration at the project area.

Drill and field samples have been sent to a second in-country laboratory to speed up results from both Curunday and the La Huacas area.

The first set of assays is expected in early February.

Promesa is continuing grass roots field exploration programs and mapping at the Promesa concession in the La Liberated region, and has been evaluating new projects to complement its existing exploration activity in Peru.

Originally published at: http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/24257/promesa-commissions-second-laboratory-to-expedite-gold-drilling-results-in-peru-24257.html