Mining has been developed in Peru since ancient times. Gold and silver pieces found used by authorities of different preInca cultures evidence this early mining development. The Chavín (900 B.C.), Vicus (900 B.C. – 300 A.D.), Paracas (700 – 500 B.C.), Nasca (100 A.D.), Mochica (80 A.D.) and more recently Tiahuanaco, and Wari cultures knew […]
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King of the Mining Ring 2020: Results
Video Replay: Watch the full show here if you’d like to see the battle as it happened… Beware scrollers, spoilers below! Happy Friday y’all! Today there’s a few sore heads in the Spotlight camp as we celebrated the end of our 3 month ‘King of the Ring’ tournament last night. I want to start […]
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The Silver Slam
Mountain Boy Minerals, New Pacific Metals and Excellon Resources go head to head in our ‘King of the ring’ junior mining pitch-battle. See more at www.spotlightmiing.com/register
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The LATAM Showdown
Presenters from Lake Resources, Chakana Copper, Aldebaran Resources and Solgold battle it out for a place in the Junior Mining E-trophy finals… With a regional keynote from Paola Rojas.
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Europe Goes it Alone for 24 Hours…
G’day brothers, sisters and those otherwise defined. Biggest news from Friday: Vangold (TSXv: VGLD) have initiated a bulk-sample agreement with Endeavour Silver Corp. Vangold have 330moz of mine material at surface and in underground dumps and are pulling through on their promises to develop it faster than you’d get a hamburger in a drive-through. How […]
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Econference Summary and My Weekly Trades
Well, that was nice! Those of you who know me personally will know I have a significant soft-spot for REEs and critical metals. I don’t always see economic value in their production, but the conspiracies around supply, the global posturing by political loons who don’t know what they are, and their geochemistry fascinates me. Today, […]
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Silver… The Next Break Out Metal?
Featured image: Stockpiles of gold/silver ore at the Vangold Mining El Pinguico project in Mexico A special feature from Tim Strong – Kangari Consulting Many of you will have been watching the gold price slowly climb with interest in the past few months, but have you also been looking into silver? I was […]
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Why Copper?
A panel of CEOs from Cyprus to Peru discuss the copper industry and their projects on our weekly E-Conference! Join our weekly events at www.spotlightmining.com/register
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Tales from the Covid Bunker: Day 10
Featured image: Up in the clouds, soil sampling with CLM on Chachi Ridge, July 2019 END OF THE WORLD: Our valiant web manager, Sam, has been busy beavering away this afternoon to build us an e-conferencing server and portal at short notice. He wins a coin for the apocalypse jukebox! Joy Division – Isolation This […]
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Tales from the Covid Bunker: Day 6
Sinead from Mines & Money has picked today’s ‘End of the World’ soundtrack – U2 – Until the end of the world’. Mines and Money may be postponed for now, but have you checked out their online resources at Mining Beacon for awesome live webcasts and webinars…? Hi Friends! All is well, the Bratislava bunker is bathed in […]
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