Jen Roskowski - Driving Discoveries with Systematic Geoscience in the World-Class Zacatecas District

Mexico is the world’s largest silver producer, and 3 of the world’s top 5 silver-producing mines are located in the state of Zacatecas. Intermediate to low sulfidation epithermal systems in Mexico are commonly associated with carbonate-replacement-style deposits including mantos and skarns.
The world-class Fresnillo District in Zacatecas has recently experienced modern exploration leading to significant blind discoveries and modern mine building, including Juanicipio. In comparison, the neighbouring world-class Zacatecas District has undergone limited district consolidation and modern systematic geoscience.
Since 2019 Defiance Silver Corp has amalgamated a district-scale land package and is conducting discovery-focused mineral systems geoscience in the Zacatecas District. Join us as Jennifer Roskowski of OreQuest Consultants Ltd. takes us through the process, the results, and the spectacular rocks encountered as Defiance Silver continues to build the data set required to make discoveries in the Zacatecas District.

[@rldecluedeclue9152]

Awesome show! I'm older guy who had the pleasure of working with my dad running zinc and lead mines. We used pine oil I set up the first spectrophotometry lab. LoL 1972

[@karaoke832]

A great talk Jen. I''ve been working on epithermals in AZ so this is opening my eyes to what I may have missed, particularly older mineral systems. Cheers.

[@crohkorthreetoes3821]

Very interesting stuff...... If you are a prospecting nerd.

[@donnybrookgold]

We are a LS epithermal on a passive rift margin on western edge of yilgarn in Western Australia