Chapitos copper-gold project. Photo by Camino Minerals.

The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines approved a permit related to Camino Minerals’ (TSXV: COR) environmental impact assessment for the Chapitos copper-gold project.

The permit allows for the expansion of drilling activities along the Diva Trend at Chapitos. Drilling is expected to commence during the latter half of 2019.

In a press release, Camino explained that the 200-drill pad permit allows for a maximum of 908 drill holes or 445,200 metres of drilling over a 3.6-year period.

According to the miner, the drilling will further define and potentially expand on the copper mineralized zones at the Adriana, Katty, and Vicky targets, but also includes drilling designed to evaluate the potential for additional zones of copper mineralization along the Diva Trend.

“Camino is excited to have received the EIA permit to continue drilling the Diva Trend copper mineralization along strike and down dip allowing for potential expansion of the mineralized footprint,” the firm’s CEO, John Williamson, said in the media brief. “The permit will allow the company to better locate drill collars in optimum locations to both test the Diva structure and other structural and stratigraphic copper opportunities while potentially minimizing drill costs.”

Camino informed that the exploration program will also include follow-up work on the Atajo Trend where exploratory drilling intersected 0.83 % copper over 16.3 metres, including 2.09 % copper over 5.0 metres.

The Chapitos project is a 22,000-hectare land pack near Chala in southern Peru.

Source from: www.mining.com/camino-minerals-allowed-expand-drilling-southern-peru/