{"id":321718,"date":"2025-12-11T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/australian-critical-minerals-obtains-permit-to-drill-at-flint-project\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:07:08","slug":"australian-critical-minerals-obtains-permit-to-drill-at-flint-project","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/australian-critical-minerals-obtains-permit-to-drill-at-flint-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Critical Minerals obtains permit to drill at Flint Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Critical Minerals has obtained the <strong>final drilling permit<\/strong> for its <strong>Flint Project<\/strong>, located in the epithermal gold-silver belt of southern Peru. This approval includes access to private property and environmental compliance at the Gaya 103 concession and clears the way to commence a <strong>diamond drilling campaign of up to 10 holes.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Technical details of the finding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The drilling campaign will focus on resistivity anomalies detected by <strong>NSAMT (Natural Frequency Domain Audio-Magnetotelluric)<\/strong> geophysical surveys, a method that measures the electrical conductivity of rocks at depth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These anomalies have revealed a continuous resistive body, that is, a zone where the rocks offer high resistance to the passage of current, which is interpreted as the possible <strong>silicified core<\/strong> of a <strong>high sulfidation epithermal system<\/strong>. This core corresponds to a hardened and porous rock mass, mainly composed of silica, which usually acts as the structural &#8220;trap&#8221; where gold and silver are concentrated in this type of systems, associated with near-surface hydrothermal activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary results place these structures between <strong>100 and 300 meters deep<\/strong>. To accurately define their geometry and orientation, <strong>3D geological modeling<\/strong> is being finalized, which will integrate all geophysical and geochemical data, allowing precise orientation of the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/smart-automated-offshore-oil-platforms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> drilling platforms<\/a><\/strong>, this will optimize the angle and location of the wells to intercept the zones of interest and <strong>maximize the probability of exploration success<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flint Project, a strategic bet for 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Located just 3 kilometers from the <strong>San Juan Copper Porphyry<\/strong>, the Flint Project may share geochemical features with its neighbor, suggesting <strong>potential mineralogical continuity<\/strong>, an aspect that Australian Critical Minerals will evaluate as its exploration program progresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company plans to update the market upon completion of the 3D model, which will define the <strong>final drilling targets for 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/auscriticalminerals.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australian Critical Minerals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACM received the green light to start drilling in an epithermal system with high gold and silver potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10019,"featured_media":321199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13030,13060],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-321718","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-industry","categoria_noticias-mining"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/321718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/321718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=321718"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=321718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}