SAN MARCIAL LOCATION MAP (Click to enlarge)
- San Marcial property located in northern Sonora State, 20 km east of the San Francisco Mine, owned and operated by Magna Gold Inc. (formerly,Timmins Gold)
- 100% ownership of over 1,000 ha
- Excellent road access – close to infrastructure
- Old mine workings from early 1900s at Soledad and San Marcial mines
- Locally high-grade gold & silver mineralization, with broader lower-grade zones of disseminated to stockwork forms of mineralization
- Previous work during 1980s by Cominco; Barrick; and in 1990s by Campbell Resources; Queenstake – air track drilling showed near-surface mineralization
- San Marcial gold mineralization hosted in Jurassic sedimentary rocks, consisting of quartzite, shale, limestone and younger porphyritic intrusive rocks
Sonoro conducting surface exploration program – data compilation and geochemical sampling to delineate anomalous zones for drilling
SAN MARCIAL EXPLORATION
View looking east from historic Soledad Mine
Historic Soledad Mine adit
Sampling near historic Soledad Mine
View looking southeast at San Marcial
Old air track drill holes
Old air track drill hole
Multiple drill targets
Excellent road infrastructure
Multiple drill target locations
Easy access to drill targets
Another view of drill targets
View looking north from old San Marcial Mine
Geologist’s notes
Prospecting
Surface sampling
Prospecting area
Team taking surface samples
More drill targets