43-101 2009 Technical Report On The San Antonio Project, Baja ...

PEDIMENT GOLD CORP.The mineralized zone strikes generally north-south and dips about -45 degrees west asdetermined by drilling through covering sand and gravel. The horizontal width of themineralized zone is now seen to be on surface up to 250 meters in areas east-westbenefiting where listric faulting has doubled the width due to repetition. Vertical RC holeshave cut vertical mineralized intercepts of over 150 meters.12.3. Los Planes Core HolesThe first phase of drilling by Pitalla, in May 2007, prior to the larger main RC program,saw the completion of three 50 East dipping core holes, LCDD – 18, 19, 20 (398.2 m) byDiamond Drilling Consultants, of New Mexico. The drilling in this area later called LosPlanes targeted possible gold mineralization in a zone about a kilometer north of the LasColinas zone.Holes 19 and 20 recovered core with the entire length showing complete supergeneoxidation with limonite, but ended short of target depth, due to ground conditions andequipment problems. Drill hole 18 cut many limonitic oxide sections with a 40.22 m corelength (119.2-159.4), grading 2.22g/t Au. This intercept was later corroborated by HolePLRC 62 which cut 57 m (123.4-180.4) @ 3.65 g/t (including six samples >10g/t). Oneshort Winke core drill hole, LCW 24, was also drilled 50 m SE of LCDD-19 at 70 E nearan outcrop which was later trenched. The Winke hole intersected 17.68 meters of fractured,mineralized stockwork grading 0.55g/t Au in what was later determined to be an upperhangingwall zone of mineralization. These are the discovery drill holes of the Planes bodythat led to contracting a large RC machine for further drilling.Core drilling started again in December of 2007 with 673 meters in five holes completed,immediately followed in 2008 by an additional 1971 meters of core drilling over 11 holes.Some of these drill holes were located to twin prior holes and were sited within 2 meters ofprior RC holes to check recoveries and assays.12.4. Fandango and Virgin Zone Core Drill HolesDrilling in early 2008 in the Fandango and Virgin areas (mineralized zones that wereinitially detected by I.P. geophysical surveying), revealed zones of up to 20 metersthickness with very fine commutated sulfides along shear planes (FAAD-1 through FAAD-5). Only two assay intervals in the drill hole in the Virgin zone (FAAD-4) exceeded 0.1gram with one showing 0.45 grams gold. Intervals other than those two had no significantgold or silver values so this targeted area was considered an unsuccessful exploration effort.Much of the pyrite was localized in rock strongly phyllitic in character with sericiticalteration. Total drilling completed in Fandango was four drill holes totaling 1258.8 meters,and in the Virgin zone one drill hole of 112.3 meters. Oxidation in these areas reachedabout 30 to 40 meters deep.