Optiro’s summary of the RSC Mineral Resource Reporting Intelligence for 20-26 Feb 2017

RSC offer a free weekly intelligence report on the global reporting of mineral resources. This is Optiro’s summary of the report:

86 new technical reports were published:

• 30 Mineral resources
• 2 Maiden resources
• 46 Exploration / Drilling
• 2 Environmental
• 2 were amendments – these were from: Puma Exploration for the Murray Brook property; Lithium X Energy for their Sal de los Angeles property.

The project locations:

• 63 North America
• 30 Oceania
• 19 Africa
• 9 Europe
• 6 Asia
• 9 South America

The project commodities:

• 95 Gold
• 35 Silver (down 7 from last week)
• 17 Zinc
• 15 each for Lead and Copper (Copper down 14 from last week)
• 9 Lithium
• 6 Zircon (6 more than last week!)
• 5 Molybdenum
• 3 each for Antimony and Cobalt
• 2 Tin

Globally, the most popular resource and reserve estimation report authors since October 2014:

• Globally, Optiro is in the top 8 consultancies for resource estimation reports and globally the most popular consultancy for Maiden Resource reports.
• Globally, Optiro is in the top 15 consultancies for reserve estimation reports.

The top 3 drill intersections for the week:

• Timmins Gold Corp: Ana Paulo in Mexico, resource definition; 151.07m @ 8.98g/t Au and 6.52g/t Ag from 105.00mm
• Integra Gold Corp: Lamarque in Canada, resource definition; 14.75m @ 71.61g/t Au from 140.2m
• Primero Mining Corp: San Dimas in Mexico, mining; 8.1m @ 56.9g/t Au and 3367g/t Ag from 321.7m

Top 3 most significant drill intersections of 2017:

• Kirkland Lake Gold in USA – Fosterville project – Au
• Cordoba Minerals Corp in Colombia – San Matias project – Au, Ag, Cu, Zn
• UEX Corp in Canada – Christie Lake project – U308

Here is the full RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence report.