Santuario Project

Gold Property
3,200 hectares - 100% title interest

Location: The Santuario Project is located in the central part of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, in the municipality of Cardonal, at an elevation of between 2200 and 2700 masl. It is accessed from Pachuca (the capital city of Hidalgo) by a 75 km-long paved highway to the town of Hueytlapan then north on paved highway to Tenango de Doria and then west on gravel roads to the small town of San Clemente, all drivable year-round.

History:The historic San Clemente mines were primarilSanty mined for gold. Numerous historic gold mines are reported within the property with numerous underground adits located to date. The last mine worked was the San Severano Mine in the 1950's which operated continuously for 6 years, material at the mouth of the adit was milled then packed out by mule train. The adit to San Serverano is almost completely blocked by talus from the slope above. One of the former mine workers lives in San Clemente and acted as a guide for Soltoro geologists. Other mines in the zone ceased production earlier than the 1950's and are now partially collapsed. The area was placed into the Mexican National Mineral Reserve in the 1970's and extensive mapping and sampling was completed by the Consejo de Recursos Minerales in the early 1980's. Soltoro is in the process of acquiring and reviewing these historic reports.

Geology: Mineralization at the Santuario Project is gold hosted in a strongly fractured rhyolite flow dome. The fracturing appears related to numerous faults generally trending NW, which appear to be dialational structures related to a set of NE trending major faults. The mineralized zone as seen by Soltoro staff extends over an area of about 600m by 400m, though additional gold prospects are reported to the north of the town of San Clemente and local workers report visible gold from panning during the past government sampling to the east of the known zone, as well as on the north side of the dome which was the reason for staking additional ground.

Recent Work: In April of 2009, a follow-up geologic mapping and sampling program was completed to investigate reports from locals that visible gold has been observed in areas outside the known mine areas. The area of known mineralization has been traced over a total 3 km NE-SW length across a 600 metres width. Stream sediment samples collected NE of the known mineralization were found to be related to a series of rhyolite dikes that cuts the host andesite package and a possible rhyolite flow dome. In September of 2009, Soltoro received an evaluation report from a consulting geologist which recommended further mapping and sampling.

Click here for PDF: Independant report from September 2009