Alicanto Minerals announced that drilling and rock-chips have continued to extend the known mineralisation within its polymetallic Sala silver-zinc-lead-copper-gold project in Sweden. Alicanto Managing Director Peter George said the latest results further highlighted the immense potential to establish a project with genuine scale. The diamond drill holes SAL21-07 to SAL2-13 have intersected multiple zones of mineralisation with sphalerite, galena and silver in various amounts.

The drillholes were drilled perpendicular to the main stratabound mineralisation dipping 50 degrees towards the west. Primary replacement skarn hosted by breccia-style structures are thought to give bonanza grades and widths in a different direction along that plate. Recently published academic research has outlined several stratabound medial magnetite-serpentine horizons in Sala closely associated with Zn-Pb-Ag mineralisation.

The magnetite-serpentine represents targeting vectors for stratabound sphalerite dominated mineralization and has a magnetic signature detectable with modern geophysical equipment from surface and air. Several branches of stratabound sulphide mineralised magnetite-serpentine horizons have been identified, interpreted to each represent different stratigraphic levels of the limestone sequence. Classic Sala galena-silver dominated mineralisation is strongly structurally controlled and crosscuts the stratabound type.

Locally the silver-rich mineralisation has a low content of sulphides, with silver occurring in sulphosalts. A third mineralisation style represents more intrusion-proximal massive pyroxene with strong sphalerite mineralisation. This has only been identified at the Glas workings in the southern part of the system and represent a highly attractive exploration target for future work.

In addition, newly published material by the government's geological survey covers all known sulphide showings in Sala Region, with published rock chip assay results further supporting the exploration potential elsewhere from Prince Lode.