Aurora Porphyry Copper-Gold Project
The Aurora Property is centered at 100º 55’ W and 18º 17’ in the Balsas Mezcala basin of the Sierra Madre del Sur physiographic province, just south of the Rio Balsas in northern Guerrero State, Municipio de Coyuca de Catalan. The Property overlaps part of the Zihuatanejo Subterrane of the Guerrero Terrane, a complex, shallow marine island-arc assemblage that ranges from Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous in age. Rocks of the Guerrero Terrane are prospective for several types of base metal deposits, including volcanogenic massive sulfides (VMS), sedimentary exhalative deposits (SEDEX) and the more recently recognized iron-oxide-copper gold deposits (IOCG’s) and related iron skarns. The older rocks are covered by Tertiary andesites on the western part of the Property.
The Property application, filed under E. 33/9787 in Chilpancingo, Guerrero 28 July 2006), is for about 108 000 Ha, although the final surface area is expected to be somewhat smaller. The Property was staked on the basis of markedly anomalous metal values in stream sediment samples taken by the Servico Geologico Mexicano.