Gold Rush Sets Stage For Higher Value For Exploration Projects
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Entering 2025, the global economy is grappling with the ripple effects of persistent inflation, fluctuating interest rates, and heightened geopolitical tensions. The ongoing recalibration of monetary policies by central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve, has created volatility in traditional markets, prompting investors to seek safe-haven assets.
Gold rose above $2,860 per ounce on Friday, climbing back near record highs and heading for its sixth consecutive weekly gain. Adding to the volatility, Trump followed through on plans to impose a 10% levy on all Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to announce retaliatory tariffs on US energy goods, while earlier this week Trump suggested that the US take control of the Gaza Strip for reconstruction efforts, introducing new risks to global stability.
Amid this backdrop of economic turbulence and shifting monetary landscapes, gold has reasserted its position as a resilient store of value. And exploration stage projects once dismissed by the market are now beginning to see revived investor interest.
Enter Sonoro Gold Corp. (TSXV: SMO), who is known for their development-stage Cerro Caliche project in Mexico. But the company isn’t a one trick pony.
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Sonoro has also set its sights within Mexico’s prolific Sonora-Mojave Megashear: the San Marcial gold-silver property. Situated just 20 km east of Timmins Gold Corp’s San Francisco Mine, San Marcial is emerging as a compelling prospect in the Cucurpe mining district, an area historically dominated by vein-style mineralization but now revealing potential for large-scale, open-pit mining operations.
San Marcial sits atop a structural system influenced by northwest-trending faults that act as conduits for mineralizing fluids, depositing quartz veins rich in gold and silver.
Since initiating exploration in 2015, Sonoro has aggressively pursued soil sampling programs across the 1,000-hectare concession. The collection of 643 soil samples revealed multiple anomalous zones promising concentrations of gold, silver, and base metals, particularly around the historic San Marcial and Soledad mine areas, which date back to the early 1900s.
Gold values reach up to 4,360 ppb, with numerous samples exceeding 200 ppb. Silver assays peaked at 69.5 ppm, accompanied by significant lead values (up to 6,965 ppm) and anomalous traces of zinc, antimony, bismuth, tungsten, mercury, and molybdenum.
The Sonora-Mojave Megashear structural corridor has historically yielded over 10 million ounces of gold, with an estimated 25 million ounces remaining in resources and reserves.
Moreover, the geological continuity within this megashear, combined with Sonoro’s exploration results, suggests that San Marcial could host disseminated, low-cost, bulk-tonnage deposits akin to its neighboring mines.
Sonoro Gold last traded at $0.095 on the TSX Venture.
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