Optiro’s weekly summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence

Optiro’s weekly summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence for 6-12 Feb 2017.

Technical reports published:

• 80 new technical reports
• 10 mineral resources
• 2 maiden resources
• 62 exploration / drilling reports
• 1 environmental report
• All report numbers are down from last week.

The project locations:

• 35 in North America
• 26 in Oceania
• 9 in Africa
• 5 in Europe
• 2 in Asia
• 4 in South America

The commodities for the projects were:

• 59 were gold
• 24 silver
• 15 copper
• 10 zinc
• 7 lead
• 5 lithium
• 4 nickel
• 3 each for tin and graphite
• 2 each for potash and tungsten
• 1 each for coal and arsenic

Resource estimation report authors since October 2014:

• Globally, Optiro is in the top 10 most sought after consultancies for both resource estimation reports and maiden resource reports.

Reserve estimation report authors since October 2014:

• Globally, Optiro is in the top 15 consultancies for reserve estimation reports.

Top 3 significant drill intersections of the week:

• Klondike Mines Ltd – Fire Creek in the USA – mining – Au-Ag, 52m @ 3322.79g/t Au, 1775.14g/t Ag from 197.4m
• Hunt Mining Corp. – Martha in Argentina – exploration – Au-Ag, 4m @ 28.6g/t Au, 15471g/t Ag
• Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd – Kiena in Canada – mining – 14m @ 43.05g/t Au from 504.00m

Top 3 significant drill intersections for 2017:

• Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd – Fosterville in Australia – mining – 15.15m @ 1429g/t Au from 345.55m
• Cordoba Minerals Corp – San Matias in Colombia – resource definition Au-Ag-Cu-Zn, 5.00m @ 800.90g/t Au, 88.63g/t Ag, 3.65% Cu, 8.60% Zn from 112m
• Paramount Gold Nervada Corp – Grassy Mountain in USA – resource definition – Au-Ag, 43.0m @ 47.51g/t Au, 12.68g/t Ag from 166.12m

Here is the full RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence report.