Panzendorf

East Tyrol, Austria

Project Overview

The Panzendorf Project is located in East Tyrol, Austria, between Sillian and Abfaltersbach. The license area includes the historical Panzendorf, Villgraten, and Tessenberg mines. Initial exploration targeting has been defined by known mineral occurrences and historic copper and iron mining records.
The deposits within the Turntaler Quartz Phyllite Zone are polymetallic, stratiform massive sulphide deposits of volcanic-sedimentary character (VMS). The ore carriers are elongated deposits, veins, and lenses in sequences of quartz phyllite, chlorite schist, and black shale.

Project Highlights

  • 131 rock chip samples collected to date in initial prospecting and sampling, with initial assay results returning up to 2.2% Cu, 0.3 g/t Au, 54 g/t Ag, 1.9% Zn, 0.9% Pb.
  • Outcropping mineralization discovered at Gerichtsbachgraben in July 2024, highlighting visible malachite and chalcopyrite. Assay results pending.
  • Initial soil orientation survey completed in August 2024. Results pending.
  • Early evidence suggests that the various historical mining activities in this region were isolated operations on a larger VMS system.

Panzendorf
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Area Acess

Außervillgraten and Panzendorf are situated on the western slope of Stulperrast, in the eastern foothills of the lower Villgraten Valley. The former is at an elevation of 1,600 metres above sea level, while the latter is located at the exit of the Villgraten Valley, 1 km north of Heinfels Castle. Road access is generally good and nearly all sampling points can be reached by 4WD, and all are accessible on foot.

The main targets across this licence have been defined by known mineral occurrences and historic copper & iron mining records.

Geographic Coverage

EMEX’s Panzendorf licence area, including the three mines Panzendorf, Villgraten and Tessenberg, is located north of the East Tyrolean Puster Valley, between Sillian and Abfaltersbach (north of the highway between Lienz and Sillian). The Tessenberg adits/tunnels are situated at elevations ranging from 1,750 to 2,100 metres above sea level on the eastern slope of Stulperrast, high in the right flank of the Hinterberger Turnbach stream, east of Morgenrastl (2,142 metres).

 

History

Geology

Ore Hosting

Elongated ore bodies and lenses

Host Rock

Volcanogenic-sedimentary sequences of quartz-phyllite, chlorite-schist, and black shale.

Primary Mineralogy

Pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite

Associated Mineralogy

Galena, Fe-rich sphalerite, aresonpyrite

Featured Sample

Project Hypothesis

  1. The Panzendorf VMS system that was identified by historic mining activities is larger and more interconnected than what was previously understood.
  2. As VMS systems often occur in clusters, Ekometall expects there to be additional lenses accompanying the few currently identified lenses.

Work Completed

Phase 2

Planned Work Program

The planned work program at Panzendorf is focused on better understanding this deposit style to best determine grade/tonnage potential as well as optimal drill hole planning.

  • Surface Geophysics – Time Domain EM and Induced Polarization / Resistivity; Magnetometry
  • Structural / Geological Mapping
  • Airborne Geophysics – Pending results from the localized surface geophysics
  • Potential Underground Sampling – Several accessible historical adits with the potential for underground mapping and channel sampling

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