Pilot
Location : Nevada, U.S.A.
Mineral : copper & Gold
The Pilot Copper-Gold Porphyry Project was staked by Almadex during its U.S. generative program in 2023. The project covers a 2x1 km area of exposed intense hydrothermal alteration typical of a porphyry lithocap environment.
Geology: copper & Gold Porphyry
The Pilot project covers an area of hydrothermal alteration developed in folded sedimentary rocks intruded by tonalite porphyry bodies exposed in drainages. In 2024 the company conducted extensive alteration and geologic mapping along with soil sampling, IP geophysics and a drone-based magnetics survey. The alteration is dominated by pyrophyllite and white mica. This alteration pattern is considered to be proximal to porphyry mineralisation. The mapping identified several outcrops with evidence of porphyry-style veining.
This includes veining interpreted to represent early magnetite, A-type, syntaxial B-veins and late stage D-type quartz-sericite-pyrite veining. The soil sampling program defined a broad zone of anomalous copper-molybdenum and gold coincident with high chargeability from the IP survey and a distinct magnetic high.
Extensive pyrophyllite alteration and exposed porphyry veining suggests poprphyry very near surface.
Red circles indicate areas of historic turquoise mine shaft activity along general E-W trend of pyrophyllite alteration.
