Exploration  Argentina | El Salvador | Canada | Australia | Mexico In December 2006, the company partnered with Aura Silver and expanded its exploration portfolio by optioning the 13,724 hectare Taviche Property in Oaxaca State, Mexico from Plata Panamericana S.A. de C.V. The optioned property comprises two concessions underlain by a large number of silver and gold-bearing quartz veins. Historic small-scale mining activity is evident in various parts of the property. The Western Concession surrounds the San Jose silver-gold deposit. This deposit consists of multiple quartz-vein and hydrothermal breccia hosted epithermal silver-gold mineralization which, from the 1880’s to 1942 produced 19.2 million ounces of silver and 144,000 ounces of gold from one million tonnes of ore (reference, March 2006 technical report prepared for Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. current holders of the San Jose deposit). |
