As of June 2000 Gawler Gold held gold and base-metal exploration concessions covering 183,731 hectares in the north of Sonora Province, Mexico. The concessions are located within the California-Sonora Gold Belt immediately to the south of the U.S./Mexico border. 

 

Gawler Gold and Mineral Exploration N.L.  

Gawler Gold, operates through its Mexican incorporated subsidiary, Mexex Gold Corporation S.A. de C.V. 

Gawler Gold has entered in to a Memorandum of Understanding with BHM (USA) Ltd. to undertake reconnaissance exploration for gold in the Sonoita - Caborca area of Mexico. The commercial arrangement will be formalized within a joint venture with each Gawler Gold and BHM (USA) Ltd holding 50% equity.

The search area is located immediately south of the Arizona (USA) - Mexico border and will concern prospecting over splays of the San Andreas Fault Zone with the application of gold-in-calcrete exploration techniques developed in Australia within similar desert environments. Major gold developments are known to the north and south of the search area. Should the gold-in-calcrete trials prove successful, exploration will be progressed by drilling

WWWinfo(15Jul99)

Choya Dorada, Choya Dorada II, La Esperanza & El Sahuaro Concessions, Sonora.
(Gawler Gold: 99 percent)  Exploration and basement structural research has further refined gold-in-calcrete anomalies to be associated with obscured deep-seated shear structures to the south of and parallel to the La Choya (Hecla) gold mine. 

Exploration Update - June 2000 still on WWWinfo 03/25/02