Hole 16 cut 6.35 metres grading 1,789 grams silver, 2.91 grams gold, 3.43% lead and 5.51% zinc starting 681 metres downhole. The discovery of the Valdecanas vein initiated a frenzy of drilling and culminated with MAG's first resource estimate: 7.3 million inferred tonnes grading 1,011 grams silver per tonne, 2.06 grams gold per tonne and 6.25% lead/zinc.

Now boasts MacInnis, "Others guys talk in the hundreds of grams silver per tonne. We talk in kilos."