{"id":1122369,"date":"2019-06-20T21:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=994392"},"modified":"2019-06-20T21:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:57:28","slug":"ero-copper-intersects-highest-grade-to-date-at-vermelhos-stock-jumps-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1122369","title":{"rendered":"Ero Copper intersects highest grade to date at Vermelhos; stock jumps 7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ero Copper Corp (TSX: ERO) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"announced today (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erocopper.com\/news\/2019\/ero-copper-intersects-28.1-meters-grading-12.60-copper-including-18.0-meters-grading-15.62-copper-in-highest-grade-meter\/\" >announced today<\/a> it has drilled the highest grade-metre intercept so far at the Vermelhos\u00a0underground mine in Bahia state, Brazil, intersecting 28.1 meters grading 12.60% copper.<\/p>\n<p>Ero Copper&#8217;s share price increased by more than 7% on Thursday, taking its market cap to C$1.76 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In its initial drilling, high-grade mineralization was encountered 70 meters beneath the Toboggan orebody. Highlights include 13.4 meters grading 5.86% copper. The holes drilled are showing a 40% increase in the modelled thickness of mineralization in the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the company&#8217;s Pilar open-pit mine, a new zone called Barauna was discovered, where the company intersected 8.4 meters grading 4.02% copper and 6.9 meters grading 3.15% copper approximately 40 meters below the previously known deepest intercept. <\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver-based company is currently focused on copper production in the Vale do Curaca Property in Brazil, where it has been operating for 39 years. The company also owns 97.6% of the NX gold mine, the Boa Esperan\u04aba development project and another gold and silver mine in Matto Grosso, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eros Copper Corp is focused on copper production in the Vale do Curaca Property in Brazil where it has been operating for 39 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122408,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122369\/revisions\/1122408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}