Vortex Metals’ Flagship Copper-Gold Properties Endorsed by ‘Mine Finder’ as Next Significant Discovery - Seite 2

Let’s focus on the two drill-ready projects.  What is it about the Riqueza Marina and Zaachila projects that make them so attractive?  Simply put, both properties enjoy highly prospective geology, they’re also both ideally situated to benefit from the local infrastructure, and Vortex has surrounded itself with the necessary expertise to be successful. 

Much of the key geology rests on the fact that both properties lie in an underexplored VMS belt, and Vortex controls 2 of the 3 most promising VMS exploration plays in a region known as the “Oaxaca VMS Belt.”  Globally, VMS deposits are one of the richest sources of base metals such as copper, zinc and lead, and these deposits can also produce economic amounts of gold and silver.  These deposits originally form on or below the ocean floor and are typically associated with volcanic and/or sedimentary rocks. 

VMS deposits are found worldwide and often form in clusters or “camps,” following the tectonic plate boundaries in areas of ancient underwater volcanic activity.  These natural processes take place deep in the earth’s crust and have been going on for 3.4 billion years. So, how did Vortex’s two properties in the Oaxaca VMS Belt come to be potentially so mineral rich?

VMS deposits begin in areas where the earth’s crust is thin due to faulting or separation of tectonic plates, and the magma heats up the ocean floor.  As the heated ground cracks and begins a process that draws the ocean water into the crust, it becomes super-heated and saturated with minerals.  “Black/White Smokers” then expel this mineral-rich seawater back to the surface where the minerals are spread out and come to rest over the ocean floor.  Then, over time, the continual activity of the “smokers” and their mineral-rich plumes create mineralized beds that become VMS deposits.  With the movement of the earth’s tectonic plates, these mineral-rich beds are relocated and can be found on land that was once underwater.  Interestingly, Black Smokers were discovered on both properties in what can be described as an extremely rare and geologically significant occurrence.