Eltorno Gold Mine
When the bulk samples are confirmed by a globally respected lab this will become a very very interesting gold play.
A- Dr. Fabio Montanari, President/CEO of Soltera Mining Corp
When I arrived in Argentina in 1996, I reviewed more than 45 mining projects on behalf of a junior mining company from Canada. The junior company decided on pursuing the most promising of these projects but, after the BRE-X crisis of 1997, they were obliged to leave Argentina because it was impossible at that time to obtain funding. The projects then became free and I began to search for investors because I really believed in the properties. These properties were El Torno (gold) and Eureka (gold-copper).
Argentina is a wonderful country. I am Italian and more than 50% of the people here are of Italian origin, which makes it easier for me, but anyway, you can not change the location of a mine: I have evaluated many other projects around the world but I had not found one more promising than El Torno.
Q- Investorideas.com
"El Torno is located in the Andean Cordillera near the international border with Bolivia. The property, which covers approximately 79 square kilometers, contains a set of very large gold-bearing quartz veins that extend intermittently for at least 14 km north-south within metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of Ordovician age.
The central parts of the western vein system have been worked since the Inca Period and there are more than 1,000 m of underground galleries. 2,100 m of drilling in 1997 showed that a 2 m thick zone on the west side of the vein carries up to 37 gpt (grams per tonne) gold and suggested that there is potential for several million ounces along the full length of the vein. Samples of country rock some distance from the main vein have also shown up to 112 gpt gold (historical results not NI 43-101 compliant).
Soltera has carried out two gold geochemical surveys. The first was reconnaissance and consisted of 596 stream sediment samples that covered about 100 square kilometers. The results showed a series of anomalies extending the full 14 km length of the vein system together with several broad anomalies in the country rocks up to 2 km away from the main vein. This survey was reported in an April 2008 press release."