Follow-up Work Already Planned
Yesterday, the Canadian gold explorer Quimbaya Gold (CSE QIM / WKN A3DT3C) published encouraging news. The company, which is set to begin its first drilling on its Tahami South project in Colombia soon, reports the results of rock samples taken from the Tahami North project in advance. And these can certainly impress!
Quimbaya reported grades of up to 5.86 g/t gold and 133 g/t silver along a new 2-kilometer-long vein system. These run in a northwestern direction within the company’s claims, and the confirmation of this previously interpreted trend means a significantly improved understanding of the potential of the gold/silver vein systems on the Tahami North project for Quimbaya!
Comprehensive Exploration Program Delivers Initial Successes
During last year’s first exploration program on the project area, the company collected 67 channel samples, 60 rock samples, and 5 pan concentrates, the analysis of which now confirms the trend of gold and silver veins
Channel samples taken from the Salomon veins showed up to 3.31 g/t gold and 133 g/t silver. In bulk rock samples from the Salomon veins, up to 5.86 g/t gold and more than 100 g/t silver were detected, and in the pan concentrates, it was 45.6 g/t gold and 4.26 g/t silver.
The Quimbaya team completed the compilation of data obtained from the exploration program last month. This also included a regional structural interpretation of the digital elevation model and regional magnetometric geophysics, interpretation of the gold vein trend, geochemical data analysis, and normalization of the database (including laboratory certificates).
Next Exploration Program Already Planned
A follow-up program has already been designed to investigate and sample the continuation of the gold/silver veins along the trend. This is to include geological mapping, trenching, and soil and channel rock sampling.
Quimbaya Gold’s CEO Alexandre P. Boivin sees the results presented now as a “solid foundation” to advance exploration work on Tahami North and define initial drill targets along the mineralized gold and silver corridor. The company’s focus will initially be on the upcoming drilling program on the Tahami South project, which borders Aris Mining’s high-grade Segovia mine, but Tahami North offers additional discovery potential that will complement the activities already planned there.
Overall, the 2025 exploration program on Tahami North will focus on defining and expanding the gold and silver mineralized vein system along a 4.4-kilometer (!) long potential mineralized trend, it was concluded.
Conclusion: Although the focus is clearly on the upcoming drilling on Tahami South, with which Quimbaya Gold wants to definitively prove that the high-grade ore veins on the Segovia mine area of Aris Mining continue on their own property, it is good to know that the company has another arrow in its quiver. As CEO Boivin says, the latest results from Tahami North are a “solid foundation” and we are eager to see how Quimbaya can build on this.
