Solitario Resources (TSE) has signed an option agreement with Britannia Gold (VSE) to earn a 60% interest in the Tigre gold property in northern Peru.
Solitario must spend US$900,000 on exploration and pay US$115,000 to Britannia over the next four years. The company can obtain a further 15% for US$1 million, if it can secure a third joint-venture partner.
The 7,200-hectare property, 50 km east of the city of Chiclayo, is underlain by Jurassic volcanic rocks, and anomalous gold values have been located in silicified zones. Solitario’s field crews are set to start exploration, and drilling is likely to begin by early summer.
The agreement is subject to a 30-day due diligence period.
In Argentina, exploration continues at the company’s Las Carachas and Rio Blanco gold properties. A soil survey located an 800-metre-long gold anomaly in silicified sedimentary rock at Rio Blanco. Drilling should begin there before the end of April. Drilling of two fault zones in altered volcanics is also planned for Las Carachas.
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