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The Monday Post 11

Featured Image: Drive to Riverside Resources’ Cecilia Project, Mexico (Photo: Spotlight Mining, 2020) Hello again all. A lot of interesting events to get your teeth into, as well a new section of interesting reads you may have missed. COMPANY UPDATES Bluejay Mining (AIM: JAY, OTCBQ: BLLYF) announced the commencement of their fieldwork and drill program […]

Explore 2020 Conference

Featured Image: Chile Explore Group Last week I attended the Explore 2020 conference e-hosted by the Chile Explore Group. The 4-day event features talks on porphyry deposit geology and exploration, geometallurgy, industry trends and the impacts of COVID-19, drilling, geochemistry, discovery stories, machine learning, and an investor’s day project showcase. The diversity of topics and […]

The Future of Gold Mining in Mexico

Mexico is a country best known for silver mining; however, we cannot ignore the long history of commercial and artisanal gold production that has been written over the last 500 years. In fact, gold and silver account for more than 50 percent of the country’s total metals output and Mexico is the world’s 9th biggest […]

Cabral Gold – Cuiú Cuiú Update

Featured Image: Gold nuggets panned from the main drainage at Cabral’s Cilmar target. Since Spotlight’s last coverage of Cabral Gold’s Cuiú Cuiú project[1], nearly 2 months of their intensive drill program and ongoing reconnaissance work has passed and so we figured it was about time to catch up with Alan Carter (CEO) and see how things […]

Lithium in Bolivia: General Perspective and Challenges

Featured Image: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia (Photo: Samuel Scrimshaw) Covering an area of 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 square miles), at an elevation of 3,65 m in the southwest of Bolivia, there is a place where the sky and the earth merge in an eternal reflection. Also called the “Mirror of the heavens”, the Salar de […]

Driven by the mining industry, Chile’s Exports record biggest increase in 30 months

Featured Image: Chuquicamata mine, Chile (Photo: Bruna Fiscuk) Between January and September 2020, the Chilean mining sector exports to China accounted for 77.9% of the total exportations to the latter, an increase of 17.9% compared to the same period last year [1]. This trend persisted during October 2020, with an increase of 12.9% in Chile’s […]

Spotlight On: Mammoth Resources

Featured Image: Deep canyons give spetacular views in the Sierra Madre as we ascend to the Tenoriba Project. (Photo: Mammoth Resources) A trip to the arid climate of Mexico, the high plateaus and deeply incised valleys in the heart of the prolific Sierra Madre Precious Metal Belt in southwestern Chihuahua State, takes us to the […]

The Monday Post 9

Featured Image: Channel sampling across breccia zones at Cecilia project. (Photo: Riverside Resources, 2020) COMPANY UPDATES: Mammoth Resources (TSXV:MTH) announced they have secured an extension on their surface access agreement with one of the two communities local to their Tenoriba gold-silver project in the Sierra Madre, Mexico. Talks with the second community are scheduled for […]

Riverside Resources: Los Quarentas Drill Update

Featured Image: Erika Sweeney, Senior Geologist for Riverside Resources, on site in Sonora (Photo: Riverside Resources, 2020) Riverside Resources (TSXV:RRI, OTCQB:RVSDF, F:R99) just announced the commencement of their 2,000m, 10-hole drill program at their partner-funded Los Cuarentas project in northern Mexico. The partnership with Hochschild Mining PLC (LSE:HOC) was announced earlier this year[1] and constitutes […]

Project of the Week: El Pinguico, Mexico

Featured Image: El Pinguico Property. “…rich shoots are seldom found in nature to recur so often in any mine as they are found here.” ~ Professor Robert T. Hill c.1906 (Photo: Vangold Mining, 2020) This week I chatted to James Anderson, CEO of VanGold Mining (TSXV:VGLD, OTC:VGLDF) about their 100%-owned El Pinguico silver-gold project. Located […]

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