Aurea Norte Project

The Aurea Norte Project (highlighted above in darker blue) consists of nine contiguous and 100% owned claims totaling 59,637.17 hectares. The project covers the northwest extension of the Guerrero Gold Belt and is contiguous with the Aurea Sur Project to the south. The project lies on the previously untested northwest extension along a trend of gold deposits discovered within the GGB. The gold inventory in these deposits now exceeds 12 million ounces and occurs in the same geological and mineralizing environment as observed at Aurea Norte.

Exploration on Aurea Norte began in 2004/5 with a small program of detailed mapping and grid sampling over a large exposure of jasperoid outcroppings in what came to be called the San Luis and Rey David showings. That program returned significantly anomalous assays with the best chip sample from the San Luis showing returning 8.05 gm/ton gold from a jasperoid breccia.

San Luis Geology Map
Gold distribution from surface outcrop chip samples.

Aurea Norte - Mineral Showing Locations and Geology Map

Exploration has confirmed a geologic setting analogous to the geology of the Bermejal, Nukay, and Filos deposits, the pioneer discoveries of the GGB. Some of these similarities include:

The presence of upper Cretaceous Morelos and Mexcala formation sediments;
The presence of paired mafic (andesite-diorite porphyry) and felsic (quartz-rich granodiorite) intrusions;
Evidence for the injection of quartz-rich granodiorite into active fault zones, typically following bedding planes and the Morelos-Mezcala contact and associated with the development of jasperoids, silicified zones, and Au mineralization;
The development of Fe-rich jasperoids that may be the retrograde by-product of earlier prograde calc-silicate skarn bodies;
The presence of modest to strong potassic alteration (orthoclase) in quartz-rich granodiorite;
The overprinting of retrograde sericite-clay (+quartz-calcite) alteration on intrusive rocks;
The association of broad structural deformation (both low-angle and high-angle faults) and the inferred development of an intrusion-cored antiformal feature;
The relatively alkalic nature of porphyritic intrusive rocks, this indicated by the presence of abundant primary magmatic biotite phenocrysts

The following lists, in no particular order, indicate all exploration activity completed to date on the Aurea Norte property since exploration began in 2004 through to termination of activities in early 2008. Exploration on these properties is still considered to be at an early stage. All data compiled from these programs is on file.

Prospecting
Selective Regional Mapping - 40%
Target Mapping – about 200 hectares
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A structural study of the proposed tectonic boundary
Regional Magnetic interpretation and ground magnetic survey.
PhotoSat alteration study
43 Petrology Samples-Thin and polished sections
1398 Outcrop Geochemical samples, including grid and trench samples
134 Stream Samples
4129.3m of NQ core drilling in two programs with a best grade intercept of 1.11 gm/t gold over 16.8m downhole from drill hole SL003 at San Luis.
1784 Drill core samples.

Newstrike is committed to exploration and discovery on their GGB projects. While exploration is still in the early stages on this project, Newstrike technical staff is encouraged by the preliminary results and plans are underway to advance this project to the discovery stage.

San Luis-Rey David Drill hole location map