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6. El Indio / Technical facts Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua, México. 16,440 hectares. Located 90 km SE of Ciudad Juarez (1’321,004 inhabitants). Access from Villa Ahumada is by paved road No. 45 to railroad Lucero station. Continue 43 km to the east by dirt road. Magmatic. Carbonatite emplacement. Rare earth. Rhyolitic porphyry. Silicification. Slightly argillical. 993 ppm ∑ REE 95,288 tons REE. Early stage. Geological surveying, semi-detail. Channel an geochemical samples. Total investment: $90,909.09 USD. Rare earth mineralization is strongly related to carbonatite dykes and magmatic breccias, and to a carbonatite province that includes Yuca, Mariana and El Indio localities, all with rare earth contents. Mariana project (Peñoles), north and 8 km was drilled and explored confirming ∑REE content averaging 1,600 ppm. Go to extended Technical Report 6. El Indio Project El Indio Project is located north of Chihuahua State, 28 km NW of Villa Ahumada, and 95 km SSE of Ciudad Juarez, border with the United States. The zone is a desert with access through the ChihuahuaCiudad Juarez paved road. Igneous rocks outcropping in El Indio have magmatic affinity with those exposed in Mariana and Yuca localities. Together, these three sites make the so called Chihuahua Carbonatite Complex (CCC), an occurrence of carbonatites that may be related to the Trans Pecos Texas Alkali Province, aligned parallel to the Río Bravo Rift. The northern exposure at El Indio corresponds to an irregular 20-25 meters chimney (pipe) composed by spotted-like rocks due to amphibole microblastic aggregates in a quartz- feldspar and calcite matrix which, in turn, is crossed by veinlets filled with ferromagnesian minerals. These veinlets also intersect deformed laminated settings filled with hematite. This texture assemble strongly resembles a Dalmatian skin. Associated, appears an iron bearing compact rock of clastic-tuffaceous aspect and brown in color with micro-folded textures, an evidence of a ductile deformation regime affecting the original lamination. Chihuahua state - 16,440 hectares Geology map In the central part, an outcrop of 200 meters wide per about 2 kilometers length was identified and designed as Dalmatian 2 whose larger axis has N-S strike that bends NNW until clearly aligns with the aforementioned Dalmatian 1 exposure. exist, nevertheless, some zinc grades (0.02% to 1.1%) and ∑REE 0.16% have been reported, with lanthanum and cerium content of 0.08% and 0.07%. Part of the ferruginous material has been quarried out in the skarn zone. In Mariana zone (a third party property) granite porphyry intruded by carbonatite is described over an area of 750 x 350 m. Peñoles put five drill holes 305 meters depth that never passed through the carbonatite breccia. No precious or base metals data Lab results of El Indio indicate that ∑REE is 0.1%, with grades of 340-350 ppm Ce and 150-160 ppm La, a little lower than the ones reported in the drill holes of Mariana mine. Rare earth emplacement, in both cases, is probably due to a complex magmatic process; nevertheless, it is possible that REE may concentrate into the ferromagnesian microblastic aggregates.