Sunstone Metals Ltd (ASX:STM) managing director Patrick Duffy is back in the Proactive studio to discuss an imminent drilling campaign over the priority Limon discovery at the Bramaderos project in southern Ecuador. The precious and base metals explorer will begin diamond drilling next week at the gold and silver prospect, where it will target an area of known high-grade mineralisation. Recent trenching in this area produced promising results, such as 14.95 metres at 4.8 g/t gold, including 6.2 metres at 10.7 g/t, 3.9 metres at 8.4 g/t gold, and a high-grade segment of 1.9 metres at 16.2 g/t. Sunstone’s initial drilling campaign will focus on the Central Shoot and Western Target, about 1 kilometre apart, suggesting the potential for a substantial shallow high-grade resource at Limon. Duffy noted that this campaign is a crucial stepping stone on the company’s journey to establish a substantial resource at the gold and silver discovery, which could lead to early production and cash flow opportunities. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to develop larger gold-copper-silver porphyry systems at the Bramaderos Project. The Limon area has an exploration target of 900,000 to 1.7 million ounces of gold equivalent, within 30-44 million tonnes at a grade of 0.9 to 1.2 g/t gold equivalent. Recent assay results have also expanded the drill testing areas at the western targets.
Sunstone Metals has high-grade gold and silver in the crosshairs at Limon
