GITENNES
UPDATE on PERU COPPER-SILVER PROJECT
Vancouver,
April 16,
2007;
Gitennes Exploration Inc. (TSX-GIT) is pleased to
report that geologists working for the Company have recently completed a brief
mapping and sampling programme on the TotoRoko Property. Results are highly
encouraging, with the mineralized zone being traced in patchy outcrop along a
3,500–metre strike length. The property has been increased in size to 5,000
hectares. TotoRoko is a grassroots prospecting discovery made by the Company and
is located in west-central Peru.
Copper-silver-gold
mineralization at surface is oxidized, with secondary minerals such as
matrix-filling and disseminated chrysocola and malachite occurring within highly
metasomatized, Jurassic-aged volcanic tuffs and related sediments. Recent work
suggests that this mineralization is confined to a bedded tuff unit that dips
down-slope at forty degrees and maybe 10 to 50 metres thick. Additional zones
are likely present.
A new
area of copper-silver mineralization has now been found at least 1,500 metres
further northwest than the original showings. This new zone shows similar
characteristics, with copper-bearing, silicified volcanic rocks enveloped by an
epidote-garnet-magnetite skarn. Mineralization appears to strike in a
north-westerly direction into an area of anomalous stream sediment anomalies
that has not been prospected. The 1,500 metre “gap” between the two prospects
has also not been prospected in detail. Bedrock exposure is poor within this
gap, but mineralized float is present, suggesting that in-fill work could
confirm the potential continuity of the prospective mineralization.
New
chip channel results from scattered outcrops within these two mineralized zones
include the following significant copper - silver results:
|
Sample length (m) |
Zone |
Cu % |
Ag (g/t) |
Au ppb |
|
5.0 |
NW |
2.79 |
23.3 |
136 |
|
1.5 |
NW |
1.33 |
63.7 |
206 |
|
1.0 |
NW |
1.24 |
4.8 |
-- |
|
1.5 |
SE |
1.97 |
45.0 |
663 |
|
2.0 |
SE |
1.38 |
29.8 |
-- |
|
1.0 |
SE |
1.06 |
25.7 |
-- |
|
1.0 |
SE |
1.73 |
34.4 |
-- |
|
6.0 |
SE |
1.58 |
32.7 |
204 |
|
2.0 |
SE |
1.37 |
25.2 |
-- |
|
3.0 |
SE |
0.54 |
56.4 |
-- |
|
1.5 |
SE |
0.79 |
42.6 |
-- |
|
1.5 |
SE |
0.94 |
17.0 |
-- |
|
6.0 |
SE |
0.83 |
24.3 |
-- |
The zone remains
open to the northwest and the southeast. The widespread occurrences of
mineralized float suggest that other zones will be found on the
property.
Exploration work
at TotoRoko is expected to continue over the next few months, including detailed
mapping, sampling and geophysical surveys.
Work at TotoRoko
is supervised by A. Fernandez-Baca (P.Geo). Analytical services are provided by
ALS Chemex
in Lima,
Peru. The
technical information in this release has been reviewed by J. Blackwell (P.Geo),
a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument
43-101.
For further
information, contact:
Jerry
Blackwell, President
The
Toronto Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information
herein.