First Andes Silver Grants Three 454 km2 NSW Licences with Assays up to 6,037 g/t Ag
First Andes Silver secured three 454 km2 exploration licences (Carrington, Stony Creek, Dartmoor) in the Lachlan Orogenic Belt of New South Wales. Historic assays include up to 85 g/t Au and 6,037 g/t Ag at Carrington and 980 g/t Ag with 12% Cu at Dartmoor, and a sampling program begins next week.
1. Grant of Licences
First Andes Silver has formally received three Exploration Licences (EL 9870, EL 9873, EL 9879) covering approximately 454 km2 across the Carrington, Stony Creek and Dartmoor projects. These licences grant full exploration rights over a highly prospective corridor of Devonian volcanic rocks and skarn systems within the Lachlan Orogenic Belt of southeastern New South Wales.
2. Historic Assay Highlights
Carrington hosts an iron-rich skarn system where rock-chip sampling returned up to 85 g/t gold and 6,037 g/t silver within gossans. Stony Creek assays include up to 18.4 g/t gold and 212 g/t silver in quartz-sulphide veins, while Dartmoor samples average 980 g/t silver with 12% copper along a polymetallic gossan horizon.
3. Upcoming Exploration Program
With licences granted, the company will launch a systematic soil, stream sediment and rock-chip sampling program designed to refine drill targets. Detailed results and a full exploration plan will be announced within the next week as First Andes accelerates its regional exploration efforts.