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October 27th, 2011: Ongoing work at the Ixtaca Zone

Above: Cutting core at Ixtaca.

Above: Jorge Luis Garcia Herrera and Belsabeth Mejia Ramirez are a married team of core technicians who are working at Ixtaca. They met at agricultural college. Currently, they are keeping track of the core data and taking precise measurements prior to sampling.

Above: Morgan Poliquin (left) discussing the core with the Ixtaca team.

Above: Almaden's CFO Korm Trieu (with a working drill in the background) on his first visit to Ixtaca.

Above: A drill platform had to be built in order to drill in a particularly difficult section at Ixtaca.

September 10th, 2011 : Research at the Ixtaca

Natalie Staffurth and her thesis advisor, Dr. Richard Harrington, are currently on the Ixtaca project.

Natalie  is  a fourth year master of science student from the Royal School of Mines in London and will be studying the ixtaca project  for the next few weeks.

July 19th, 2011: Duane Poliquin at the Global Hunter Securities Conference

Duane Poliquin has been presenting at the Global Hunter Securities Conference in San Francisco.  A very busy two days, but with access to lots of interesting contacts. 

Read more about Global Hunter Securities and the Conference at http://www.ghsecurities.com/pages/TheConference.aspx

July 4th, 2011: Ongoing work around Ixtaca

ABOVE: We have a united nations of young geologists from Columbia, Spain, USA, and Mexico working on the Ixtaca drill program. Three are pictured here with Jim Lumbeck and Morgan Poliquin.

ABOVE & BELOW: Building walls! Almaden has supplied the building materials for several work projects near Ixtaca, including improvements to the health centre and the public toilets.

June 7th, 2011: CSAMT Survey on the Ixtaca Property

Almaden is just finishing up a CSAMT survey on the Ixtaca property. CSAMT is an abbreviation for Controlled Source Audio-frequency Magneto Tellurics and is a surfaced based  low impact technique for providing resistivity information of the subsurface.   It involves transmitting a controlled signal into the ground from one location (transmitter site) and measuring the received electric and magnetic fields in the area of interest (receiver site).  The two sites are usually located 3 to 6 miles apart.

CSAMT is commonly used in the minerals, geothermal, hydrocarbon and ground water exploration industries, and has proven useful for mapping the earth’s crust in the 20 to 2,000 meter depth range.   

April 28th, 2011: Pictures from Ixtaca Drill Program

Photo Op in the Ixtaca core shack. From left to right, Daniel Tovar, Peter Daubeny, Jim Lunbeck, Steve Noakes, and Morgan Poliquin.

Prospecting on the Ixtaca with Morgan Poliquin (left), Steve Noakes and Peter Daubeny.

Splitting Core on the Ixtaca: The core is split or cut lengthwise into halves. One half remains in the core box and the other half is sent to the assay lab. The half that remains is used for future reference and for check assaying if necessary. Each sample with be about 1 to 2 meters in length.

March 22nd, 2011: Almaden is featured in Mining Markets

Check out Almaden in Mining Markets, the Northern Miner's quarterly flagship magazine focusing on investing in the mining sector. That's Morgan Poliquin, Almaden's CEO and President in the red shirt. If you're wanting to know more about our prospect generator model, click on the image below. Article opens as a pdf.

March 10th, 2011: New images from the Ixtaca drill

Above: Local drillers working for our mexican subsidiary, Minera Gavilan, on one of the drills currently working on the Ixtaca Zone. Below: The core shack, laid out for inspection. Read more about the Ixtaca Zone and the drill program currently underway here +

March 8th, 2011: Duane & Morgan at PDAC

Duane and Morgan Poliquin have completed a successful tour of meetings in Minneapolis and New York, and are currently at the PDAC convention in Toronto. Come visit us at Booth 2829. On display is the rescue capsule FENIX used to rescue the Chilean miners!