Orogen Royalties Inc. announced the acquisition of the Cuervo epithermal gold-silver project in the Nechako Plateau, central British Columbia. The nearly 6000-hectare Cuervo project is located in northern British Columbia, 150 kilometres west-southwest of Prince George within the Nechako Plateau, a region that hosts significant porphyry and epithermal mineral deposits but where exploration has been historically hindered by the extensive glacial till cover that blankets the region. (Figure 1).

The claims are road accessible. The property contains a sixteen square-kilometre gold in basal till anomaly (Figure 2). The gold anomaly correlates with anomalous silver, arsenic, and antimony, all geochemical indicators of a buried epithermal system.

The scale and tenor of gold anomalism at Cuervo is comparable to Artemis Gold Inc.'s Blackwater Gold project (Proven and Probable reserves of 8Moz gold at 0.75 g/t and 62.3 Moz silver at 5.8 g/t1). The well-defined source region of the basal till anomaly correlates with a magnetic trough - inferred to be related to the regional Tatuk fault - and an open-ended area of high conductivity and strong chargeability. Historic drilling on the periphery of the geophysical and geochemical anomaly intersected epithermal style veining with sulphides throughout the hole, anomalous gold and silver values (up to 0.15 g/t gold, 6.6 g/t silver over 8 metres), and highly enriched arsenic and antimony.

The alteration and mineralization were described as resembling a silicified, high level sulphide cap atop a buried epithermal system2.