Auranias story brings together 12 years of historical archival research with modern geological, geochemical and geophysical exploration techniques in a highly favourable area that is along geological trend of major gold and copper deposits in southeastern Ecuador.  Numerous historic documents refer to the production of gold from mines in areas that management believes are on Auranias concessions: Logroo de los Caballeros and Sevilla de Oro.  A map from 1584, from the time of gold production from the two deposits, shows the location of these two lost cities relative to readily identifiable landmarks - the Upano River and the Cutucu Mountain range - which forms the core of Auranias project area.  

Auranias large, 208,000 hectare exploration concession block called the Lost Cities  Cutucu Project is in the Cordillera de Cutucu that lies along trend of the mineral belt in which Ecuadors two modern mines -  Fruta del Norte (epithermal deposit), an undergr