Gold and copper exploration company Aurania Resources has found the first field evidence of colonial Spanish activity at its Lost Cities project, in Ecuador, with the vestiges of an old road having been found.
Aurania’s field teams discovered the road while searching for Sevilla de Oro, which was one of two gold mining centres described in historic manuscripts from Ecuador, Peru, Spain and the Vatican. These records describe the colonial Spanish operating the two gold mines between about 1565 and 1606.