Optiro’s summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence for 24-30 April 2017.

During the week of the 24-30 April 2017, 95 new technical reports were published – this was up by 33 from last week:

• 1 was a report clarification and 2 were amendments
• 19 Mineral Resources – up by 8 from last week
• 1 Maiden Resource
• 66 Exploration / drilling – up by 27 which was back up to the highest point in 2016
• 1 Environmental report
• 4 previously announced NI43-101 technical reports were filed with SEDAR. 1 was a resource estimation, 1 was a PFS and 2 were feasibility studies
• 50% of reports used the JORC Code
• 47% used NI43-101

Project locations:

• 42 projects in North America – up by 21 from last week
• 27 in Oceania – up by 1
• 12 in Africa – up by 1
• 9 in Europe – up by 5
• 1 in Asia – down by 2
• 11 in South America – up by 7

This week’s project commodities were:

• 71 Gold – up by 35
• 26 Silver – up by 11
• 25 Copper – up by 9
• 17 Zinc – up by 6
• 12 Lead – up by 3
• 10 Lithium – up by 4
• 4 each for Graphite (up by1), Uranium (down by 3) and Coal (up by 2)
• 3 each for Iron (up by 1) and Cobalt (up by 1)
• 2 each for Bismuth (up by 1), Arsenic (up by 1) and Molybdenum
• 1 Nickel

Global number of Resource Estimations by Report Author since October 2014:

• Optiro ranks 5^th out of the 24 global consultancy groups, having authored 31 Resource Estimation reports since October 2014.

Global number of Reserve Estimations by Report Author since October 2014:

• Optiro ranks 14^th out of the 24 global consultancy group, having authored 6 Reserve Estimation reports since October 2014.

Top 3 most significant drill intersections of the week:

• UEX Corp., Christie Lake in Canada – exploration; 10m @ 17.11% U308 from 471.0m
• Fission Uranium Corp., Patterson Lake South in Canada – resource definition; 51m @ 1.89% U308 from 104.5m
• Artemis Resources Ltd., Carlow Castle in Australia – resource definition; 12m @ 1.19% Co, 9.79g/t Au, 4.57% Cu from 38m

Top 3 most significant drill intersections in April to date:

• Leagold Mining Corp., mining Los Filos in Mexico 85.90m @ 25.3g/t Au from 585.15m
• UEX Corp., exploration Christie Lake in Canada 11.8m @ 13.96% eU308 from 469.15m
• Osisko Mining Inc., resource definition Windfall Lake in Canada 2.8m @ 585g/t AU from 796.2m

The top 3 most significant drill intersections in 2017 to date:

• Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd, mining Fosterville in Australia 17 Jan 2017: 15.5m @ 1429g/t Ay from 345.55mm
• Cordoba Minerals Corp., resource definition San Matias in Colombia 23 Jan 2017; 00m @ 800.90g/t Au, 88.63g/t Ag, 3.65% Cu, 8.60% Zn from 112m
• Nevsun Resources Ltd., resource definition Timok in Serbia 27 Feb 2017: 256.3m @ 6.0% Cu, 3.79g/t Au from 438.8m

Here is the full RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence for 24-30 April 2017.