Summary of RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence for week 23-29 January 2017

Summary of the RSC Resource Reporting Intelligence for week 23-29 January 2017

96 technical reports were published:

• 21 Mineral Resources
• 5 Maiden Resources
• 63 Exploration / Drilling
• 1 Environmental
• 46% used JORC Code
• 49% used NI43-101

Project locations:

• 34 in North America
• 43 in Oceania
• 11 in Africa
• 6 in Europe
• 2 in Asia
• 13 in South America

The project commodities:

• 72 Gold (down by 16 from last week)
• 23 Silver
• 23 Copper
• 15 Coal (up by 11 from last week)
• 15 Zinc
• 12 Lead
• 6 Lithium
• 4 each for Graphite and Cobalt
• 3 each for Tantalum (up from 0 last week) and Tin

Resource Estimation Report Authors

• Globally, since October 2014, Optiro remains in the top 10 most popular consultancies for Resource Estimation reports and Maiden reports.

Reserve Estimation Report  Authors

• Globally, since October 2014, Optiro remains in the top 15 most sought after consultancies for Reserve Estimation reports.

The top 3 most significant drill intersections of the week:

• Cordoba Minerals Corp – San Matias – Resource Definition – Colombo Au 5.00m@800.90g/t, 88.63g/t Ag, 3.65% Cu, 8.60% Zn from 112m
• Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd – Eagle River Mine – Mining – Canada 9.60m @ 89.61g/t Au from 204.40m
• Arizona Mining Inc – Hermosa – Resource definition – Arizona 37.83m @ 160.18g/t Ag, 14.83%Pb, 7.41% Zn, 0.53% Cu from 1029.3m

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