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
