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Enjoy the images from the Santiago Gold Prospect area.

Panoramic view from the Sierra San Francisco mountain range. Image is taken from the east-west running access road between the village Santa Teresa and El Encinal (settlement in front). The Santiago project is located in a steep valley just behind the mountain peak in direction of the road.

This is the access road to the project area, the dirt road climbs up into the Francisco mountain range to an elevation of over 2900 m above sea level, in the background a broad plane, where the paved road to Durango is located.

The Santiago Gold project area with view to the southeast (left image). In the centre of the image is visible the Cerro El Madronio, an isolated mountain without pine trees. The right image is a close up from Cerro El Madronio, geologically it is a volcanic dome of rhyodacitic composition.

(Left image) Artemio is examining a rock pile of selected gold ore for visible gold. He is sitting to the right of the lower mine adit from the Tascate mine (Soledad claim). In the close up (right image) a round assay stone is visible with crushed ore. In the trough of this stone a rock sample is milled with another stone and consequently washed in a cow horn for rough estimation of the gold content.

Close up of a piece of vein quartz with limonite (black) and numerous small grains of gold in the limonite and in quartz, largest grain is about 0.4 mm across. Width of the image is 2 cm. Sample was found in the Bella Vista mine dump.

Picture with view to the north, upper adit from Tascate mine and the mine dump in front. In this area occur three quartz veins, two high grade ore shoots appear in the mine, where the outer veins intersect with the central vein.

(Left image) Drift to the northwest along the Bella Vista Vein in the Tascate mine (Soledad claim), the about 70 cm wide vein is visible in the upper central portion of the picture. The image to the right shows the workings and drifts in the La Soledad mine with view to the southeast. The mine adit can be seen at the end of the drift. Good visible is the vein dip of about 65º to the southwest. Most of the vein has been exploited in this segment, only a vein remnant is hanging above the drift in the central part of the picture.

Small tahona (stone mill) for extracting gold from selected high-grade ore (picture from 2004). The gambusinos (small miners) mill in the tahonas the crushed ore together with water and mercury. Finally they recover the mercury which is loaded with gold.

Claim monument for the concessions of the Santiago project.

Northwest side from the shaft in the Bella Vista mine with high grade quartz vein (red colour). The lower 10 m of the shaft are filled with water. The right image shows a close up from the Bella Vista vein, the vein width is here 0.8 m. This is sample point N-22.

(Left image) Bella Vista mine dump below the old glory hole (inclined shaft along high grade ore shoot). The right picture shows the glory hole from the Bella Vista mine.

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