During 2025 thirty-two companies presented gold results from drilling programs in forty-three deposits located in eleven states.
Heliostar Metals topped the list with an 83.2 m intercept at Ana Paula that averaged 17.30 gpt Au. Six of the first seven positions in the table below are from deposits located within the Guerrero Gold Belt. These are mostly skarn deposits and include Ana Paula (a complex deposit mineralization-wise), EPO, ELG Underground, El Limón Sur, Media Luna and Media Luna West. Other deposits with skarn affinities include Cerro Las Minitas and La Parrilla in Durango and Camino Rojo in Zacatecas, although also presenting carbonate replacement deposits (CRD) mineralization.
The most numerous deposit types in this table of gold drill intercepts are within the epithermal category, evenly split between the low and intermediate sulfidation divisions. Low sulfidation epithermal deposits include La Colorada (although some doubts remain on this one), Las Chispas, Santa Elena and Cecilia in Sonora; Palmarejo in Chihuahua (with minor local intermediate sulfidation input); Copalquin, Claudia, Coneto and San Dimas in Durango; San Ignacio, El Cubo, Bolañitos and Valenciana in Guanajuato; Panuco (also with intermediate sulfidation epithermal mineralization) and Los Reyes in Sinaloa and Los Ricos South (along with minor intermediate sulfidation mineralization) in Jalisco.
Intermediate sulfidation epithermal deposits in the list comprise Alamos Silver and El Tigre in Sonora; Columba, Cusi, Las Coloradas and Los Gatos in Chihuahua; Cruz de Plata (also with low sulfidation epithermal mineralization), Tahuehueto and La Preciosa in Durango; Plomosas-San Marcial in Sinaloa; La Colorada in Zacatecas; Zacualpan in Estado de México; Don David in Oaxaca and La Reyna in Nayarit. Other two deposits present intermediate sulfidation epithermal mineralization, but are probably distal parts porphyry copper systems: Gran Pilar in Sonora and Cristina in Chihuahua
Campo Morado in Guerrero is the only volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits drilled during 2025 with results published by the companies involved. Geographically, 53% of the deposits with gold results in drilling campaigns are in three states on the north of the country, Sonora, Chihuahua and Durango, while 16% are located in Guerrero.
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