CONFUSION hILLS

Location: NEVADA, U.S.A.
Mineral: Copper & gOLD
Optioned to: Azucar Minerals

Latest News:

May 1st, 2025
Almadex Announces Option-Joint Venture Agreement on Three Nevada Properties with Azucar Minerals Ltd.

April 15th, 2025
Almadex Provides Exploration Update on its Confusion Hills and Red Ring Gold Projects, Nevada, Surface Sampling returns 7.1 g/t Gold

Overview

The Confusion Hills Property lies within Nye County, Nevada, on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), roughly 118 kilometres northeast of Tonopah and 80 kilometres east of Kinross’s Round Mountain gold mine.

Almadex Minerals staked 125 of the claims as part of their U.S.A. generative exploration program in 2023, while the remaining 12 claims are held by a private third party for which Almadex has entered into an Option Agreement. Subsequently, Azucar entered into an Option-Joint Venture agreement with Almadex to acquire 60% interest in the Confusion Hills Property.

Geology

The Confusion Hills Project is a high sulphidation epithermal prospect with potential for buried porphyry copper-gold mineralization. Mapping campaigns in 2024 and 2025 defined a high sulphidation/porphyry lithocap over an area of 1.6 km by 0.5 km. The lithocap displays complex alteration with central zones of vuggy quartz with alunite and massive pyrophyllite zones.

The project encompasses an extensive alteration system exhibiting characteristics of both high-sulfidation and intermediate-stability hydrothermal regimes. The high-sulfidation assemblage is marked by advanced argillic alteration and vuggy silica, while the more neutral-stable alteration phase is typified by illite-muscovite assemblages associated with veining and silicified hydrothermal breccias.

The occurrence of gusano textures, pyrophyllite, and elevated molybdenum geochemistry suggests proximity to a porphyry system. Preliminary geochemical sampling returned significant gold, silver, and trace element concentrations, indicating that the Confusion Hills prospect hosts mineralization. The area is considered a high-priority exploration target for both low- and high-sulfidation epithermal mineralization, with potential for a shallow porphyry system.

Detailed lithological mapping by Dr. Rachel Harrison has delineated a newly recognized lithocap extending across approximately 1.6 km × 0.5 km. The core of the lithocap is characterized by vuggy quartz with alunite, transitioning outward to massive pyrophyllite zones that grade into white mica-rich domains.

The identification of gusano textures within the volcanic sequence indicates the dissolution of primary volcanic fabrics, a process driven by extensive replacement by advanced argillic alteration minerals. Soil geochemical analyses reveal a strong spatial correlation between gold anomalism and zones of advanced argillic alteration, with a pronounced molybdenum anomaly defined to the south of the project area, further supporting the hypothesis of a Proximal porphyry system.

Recent magnetic study and IP surveys, show a high mag zone to the SE of the claim as well as a high chargeability anomaly open as well to the southeast.

Planned follow up geophysics on their way. Preliminary drilling targets have been set.

Sample 227863 || Au: 7.08 ppm | As: 759 ppm | Sb: 36 ppm

Sample 227864 || Au: 0.445 ppm | As: 598 ppm | Sb: 38 ppm

Sample 227865 || Au: 0.992 ppm | As: 676 ppm | Sb: 24 ppm

Sample 227938 || As: 1990 ppm | Sb: 38 ppm

Exploration

Exploration activities carried out on the Property by Almadex personnel commenced in 2023 and have included rock and soil sampling, induced polarization (IP) geophysical surveys, an airborne magnetic survey by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), geological mapping, and alteration mapping utilizing a Terraspec® instrument.

The rock sample assay results are very encouraging, with six samples returning over 0.1 g/t gold including three samples exceeding 0.5 g/t gold (up to 7.1 g/t gold in a grab sample of subcrop and averaging 1.6 g/t gold for all 6 samples). Soil sampling completed in 2024 returned anomalous gold, molybdenum, and copper values, with gold enrichment centered within the main alteration zone and a molybdenum anomaly defined along its margin.

Two IP survey lines crosscutting the northeast-trending lithocap identified a strong chargeability anomaly interpreted to reflect subsurface sulphide development. The chargeability anomaly is coincident with areas of vuggy quartz-alunite alteration, anomalous soil and rock samples and hydrothermal breccia on surface. The alignment of these geophysical, geochemical, geological and alteration indicators highlight this area as a compelling target for further exploration.

Maps

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