The 93 square kilometre Loto exploration permit is located in the Boromo greenstone belt, contiguous to the Moule Exploration Permit, and forms part of the Moule project.  The Loto permit lies near the town of Diebougou, approximately 270 km by road from Ouagadougou of which 250 km is paved.  Loto is underlain by granite, granodiorite, tonalite, diorite and micro gabbro with minor intermediate to mafic volcanics. The basaltic volcanics are mapped in the northeast and northwest of the permit.  Quartz veins occur in two directions and are variable in width. The area is intensely farmed and it has taken time to establish a working relationship with the local community.

Attention was first drawn to this area by outcrops of strongly anomalous (1-2 gpt Au) quartz vein swarms in intermediate to mafic volcanics.  The areas of quartz veining were covered by a 200 x 100m soil geochemistry grid, rock chip and lag sampling and geological mapping.  Eight of the ninety soil samples analyzed returned values greater than 50 ppb Au with a high value of 226 ppb Au.  Five of the 167 grab rock chip and lag quartz samples collected assayed greater than 1 gpt Au, including values of 22.15 gpt Au, 4.49 gpt Au, 8.08 gpt Au, 11.15 gpt Au and 14.55 gpt Au.