Because of its proximity to Minita, it is possible for South Minita to expand the size and economic outcome of the proposed operation at Minita by potentially increasing the gold ounces with relatively small incremental increases in capital costs.
Unlike the Minita deposit to the north, which consists of one mineralized body contained in a 3.3 meter wide vein, South Minita is comprised of a number of zones of mineralization in a series of thinner, sub-parallel veins within the Minita fault zone.
The South Minita mineralized zones, as currently defined, have a cumulative strike length of approximately 1500 meters, occur between elevations of 25 meters below sea level and 250 meters above sea level and cover an area approximately 200,000 square meters in the plane of the veins in which they are hosted.