Soho sees potential for Tahuehueto

Vancouver — Underground sampling on Soho Resources‘ (SOH-V) Tahuehueto project in Durango state, Mexico, is returning high values of gold, silver, lead and zinc.

Exploration is focused on the El Creston and Cinco de Mayo zones. On the latter, underground channel sampling in 1997 showed encouraging results on 10 levels. At Cinco de Mayo, a crosscut returned 29.87 grams gold and 373.8 grams silver per tonne plus 3.12% zinc, 1.99% lead and 1.13% copper over a 10-metre true thickness (open to the east). At 117.5 metres, the crosscut averaged 9.02 grams gold, 87.5 grams silver, 5.34% zinc, 1.74% lead and 0.83% copper over an 8-metre true thickness (open to the west). The crosscut at 137 metres returned a 2-metre interval of comparable grades.

Twenty consecutive 1.5-metre samples along the length of the adit between 125 and 175 metres averaged 8.45 grams gold, 187.41 grams silver, 2.30% lead and 1.55% copper. The southern extent of the mineralization is faulted-off at about 180 metres.

Sampling is also planned at the Cinco de Mayo North 1 & 2 adits, Texclama 1, 2 & 3 adits, and El Camino adits.

Initial geologic mapping focused on the mineralized systems within the 20 km grid area and found that mineralization is closely related to coeval faulting, felsic volcanism and sedimentation. The mineralized structures persist throughout the upper and lower volcanic units.

An induced-polarization survey over 60% of the grid will allow three-dimensional modeling of the resistivity and chargeability to establish a signature for the known mines and test the areas in between.

Soho plans to drill-test anomalies between the Cinco de Mayo and El Creston zones from surface in an attempt to increasing the property’s potential for a large scale gold- silver and base metal deposit.