Rock samples found near Santa Flora Mine, Nuevo Tintillo Property (Emerita Resources TSX-V: EMO)

Video shows some rock samples found near the Santa Flora Mine during the site-visit:
• The first sample shows copper oxide mineralization with malachite (green) and azurite (blue) surrounded by jarosite (orange; a sulfate mineral; generally formed in ore deposits by the oxidation of iron sulphides) in a hematite-manganese-altered quartz-carbonate matrix. The sample indicates the oxidation of sulphide minerals.
• The second specimen shows very fine-grained massive sulphide mineralization in an altered carbonate matrix, where it‘s difficult to identify the minerals separately; however the lustre of sphalerite (a copper sulphide mineral) can be seen in a greyish mass usually made up of sphalerite and galena (a lead sulphide mineral). Within this greyish mass, it‘s possible to distinguish the iridescent lustre of bornite (a copper sulphide mineral; generally with brown to copper-red colour on fresh surfaces that tarnishes to various iridescent shades of blue to purple in places; its striking iridescence gives it the nickname “peacock ore“). In association to the bornite zones, minor chalcocite (a copper sulphide mineral) can also be recognized in the sample. Bornite is oftentimes replaced by chalcocite in the supergene enrichment zone of copper deposits.
• The last shown sample also hosts massive sulphide mineralization, however in an intermediate state of oxidation between the first and second samples. A higher level of chalcocite can be seen, whereas the sulphides are not yet completely oxidized (jarosite). Within a crystalline quartz matrix, the oxidation corresponds to a mass of hematite and goethite (both iron oxide minerals) with less manganese.
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