RE:Question on El Alacran historyFrom CDB Website:
https://www.cordobamineralscorp.com/projects/san-matias
SAN MATIAS PROJECT HISTORY
Informal artisanal gold mining is carried out at several places on and adjacent to the project in alluvial, saprolite and hard rock deposits in open pits and underground workings. The only previous modern exploration to be carried out for gold and copper in the San Matias Project area was the adjacent El Alacrn property (described in Section 15 of Cordoba's NI 43-101 Technical Report: Crdoba Project dated December 11, 2013), and at Mina R in 1984-87 by Dual Resources Inc. (Dual Resources). The license was acquired in 1995 by Sociedad Ordinaria de Minas Santa Gertudis, a private Colombian company, which changed its name to Sociedad Minera El Alacrn S.O.M. in 1996. The property was optioned to Billiton Inc. in 1998. The exploration at El Alacrn is described in reports by Vargas (1998, 2001 and 2002) and Shaw (2002).
Dual Resources carried out drilling at Alacrn (described in more detail in Section 15) and also drilled five holes of 70-120 m length each at the Mina R mine in 1984-86, but the results and core are lost (Vargas, 1998). The El Alacrn deposit was recently explored by Ashmont Resources Corp., a private company based in Vancouver, which carried out a diamond drill program in 2011 to 2012 of 11,230.55 m in 45 holes.