The Bahia Gold Belt extends for approximately 155 kilometres on Yamana's 141,580 hectare property and overlays most of the Jacobina range, where quartzites, metaconglomerates and schists of the Paleoproterozoic Jacobina Group form a series of north-south, elongated, mountain ranges.  Conglomerate-hosted gold deposits - encompassing the pyritic, gold-bearing, quartz-pebble conglomerates and quarzites of the Serra do Corrego Formation, that host the gold deposits of the Jacobina gold district, extend for approximately 40 kilometres in the southern part of the belt with many targets identified for followup: Canavieiras, Serra do Corrego, Morro do vento and João Belo, which hosts the existing underground mine.  In the northern part, work by Yamana has identified significant gold mineralization related to extensive strongly hydrothermally altered zones, which occur along the Pindobacu fault system especially in the Pindobacu area about 50 kilometres north of the town of Jacobina.