Optiro’s summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence report for 6-12 March 2017

Here is Optiro’s summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence report for 6-12 March 2017

80 technical reports published – down by 38 from last week:

• 2 were amendments
• 14 Mineral resources (↓13 from last week)
• 2 maiden resources
• 54 Exploration / drilling (↓20 but still higher than the weekly highs in 2016)
• 2 Environmental reports

Project locations:

• 27 in North America (↓24 from last week)
• 18 in Oceania (↓15)
• 13 in Africa (↓15)
• 5 in Europe (↓4)
• 4 in Asia (↑1)
• 17 in South America (↑6)

Project commodities:

• 55 Gold (↓40 from last week)
• 23 Silver
• 22 Copper (↑5)
• 13 Zinc (↓3)
• 14 Lead (↑2)
• 5 Lithium (↓7)
• 4 Graphite ((↑3)
• 2 each for Coal (↑2), Molybdenum (↑2, Tin, Cobalt (↓7) and Uranium (↓5)
• 1 each for Potash and Platinum

Resource estimation and reserve estimation report authors:

• Optiro remains globally the number 1 author for Maiden Resources, in the top 8 consultancies for resource estimate reports and in the top 15 for reserve estimation reports.

The top 3 most significant drill intersections for the week

• Probe Metals Inc – Val-d’Or East in Canada – exploration: 8.7m @ 92.7g/t Au from 272.3m
• UEX Corp – Christie Lake in Canada – exploration: 11.2m @ 4.94% eU308 from 493.8m
• Kin Mining NL – Leonora in Australia – resource definition: 3m @ 209g/t Au from 0m

The top 3 most significant drill intersections in March to date were all in Canada:

• Probe Metals Inc – Val-d’Or East in Canada – exploration: 8.7m @ 92.7g/t Au from 272.3m
• UEX Corp – Christie Lake in Canada – exploration: 11.2m @ 4.94% eU308 from 493.8m
• Premier Gold Mines Ltd – Hasaga in Canada – resource definition: 54.0m @ 10.94g/t Au from 771.0m

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

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

Here is the full RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence report for 6-12 March 2017.