TORONTO - A Canadian junior mining company says it has discovered remnants of a road in Ecuador that may have been built about 450 years ago by the Colonial Spanish to transport gold ingots from two mining centres. Aurania Resources Ltd. says the road hidden by thick jungle was discovered by its field teams near the centre of its Lost Cities – Cutucu Project that is exploring for copper and gold in southeastern Ecuador. The company says the 2.5-kilometre-long north-south road was cut by landslides at both ends. It says explorers found dressed stone along the road, which has a packed shale surface, is cut into embankments and has down-slope edges lined with blocks of shale to prevent erosion. The company says it plans to continue to search on the ground and use a LiDAR laser survey to try to find extensions of the road.

Source: thestar November 27, 2019 21:22 UTC