Location

• Alicahue is located in the highest part of the valley that bears its name,
  Cabildo commune, Petorca Province, Valparaíso Region, Chile.
• The mining prospect is located in Alicahue at the foot of the Andes
  mountain range, a foothill corner that is 30 km from Cabildo, 100 km from
  Puerto de Ventanas, 150 km from Viña del Mar and 200 km from
  Santiago

Brief mining history of the Alicahue valley

• The Jesuits, especially in the upper part of the Alicahue Valley, currently the town of Alicahue, developed mining as their main activity. They had many small mining tasks, which they supplemented with agricultural tasks.
• These mining tasks were on high-grade veins and regular veinsof gold, copper and silver, metals that were processed in firewood smelting furnaces built by themselves and distributed throughout the Alicahue valley.
• In the following century, the Jesuit Order was expelled from the entire Kingdom of Spain in the year 1767, causing the end of the mining work and the abandonment of the smelting furnaces, with agriculture becoming the main activity in the valley, until today.

Study of the National Mining Company

The National Mining Company Study is a green light that tells us in
its Conclusions:
“It is relevant the fact that being a low-grade alteration, mainly
argillic, it contains anomalous values of Cu / Mo. That gives the area
a Very High Probability of containing Mineral Deposits of Cu / Mo
and Au, which, resulting from one or other of the postulated types,
would be of significant tonnages. Which, although there is no clear
evidence on the surface to discern its type and / or precise location,
would be at depths of more than 200 meters” M. Araya.
It was a survey campaign carried out by Enami in the area in the
1990s, Geophysics and Geochemistry.- Mainly it was concentrated
in the SE part of Cerro Colorado, whose summit divides waters
between the hydrographic basins of the Ligua and Petorca rivers.