Astorius Resources Ltd. said Dec. 13 that it entered an option agreement to acquire the OSOS 1 gold property from Amlatminas SA and Francisco Soria.

The OSOS 1 project covers 229 hectares in the central to north-central part of the Portovelo-Zaruma gold mining district in southern Ecuador.

Previous work on the property defined anomalies of gold with arsenic in an area covering 1,000 meters by 600 meters.