{"id":1124251,"date":"2019-07-02T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=995397"},"modified":"2019-07-02T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:40:18","slug":"condor-allowed-to-expand-nicaraguan-gold-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1124251","title":{"rendered":"Condor allowed to expand Nicaraguan gold project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Nicaragua granted Condor Gold\u2019s (AIM<g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">:CNR<\/g>; TSX<g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">:COG<\/g>) subsidiary Condor S.A. a 25-year exploration and mining concession over a 132.1 square <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">kilometre<\/g> area called the Cerro Los Cerritos property, located in the western part of the Central American country.<\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Cerro Los Cerritos sits to the northwest of the company\u2019s La India project and adjacent to its La Cuchilla concession. According to Condor, the new addition expands the La India land package to a total of 587.7 square kilometres.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Condor needs to obtain and access permits from landowners prior to proceeding with <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">surface<\/g> exploration of the concession area<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a press release, the British company explained that its geologists identified the Cerro Los Cerritos concession as a greenfield exploration target based on the prospective geological setting and continuation of soil geochemistry and geophysics anomalies along strike from Los Rodeos and la Cuchilla concessions to the southwest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCondor&#8217;s geologists have identified two major north-northwest-striking mineralised basement feeder zones traversing the project, the \u2018La India Corridor,\u2019 which hosts 90% of Condor&#8217;s 2.4 Moz gold mineral resource and the \u2018Andrea Los Limones Corridor.\u2019 Both mineralised basement feeder zones can be projected north-northwest into Cerro Los Cerritos. Numerous geophysics, soil geochemistry and surface rock chips indicate the possibility for further mineralisation along strike,\u201d the firm\u2019s CEO, Mark Child, said in the media release.<\/p>\n<p>Child indicated that Condor will now apply for the Category III environmental authorization from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources regional office in Estel\u00ed, which allows for low impact activities such as geological mapping, prospecting and limited trenching and drilling in a designated area.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Nicaragua granted Condor Gold the Cerro Los Cerritos concession.<\/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":"","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":"","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-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-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-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-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-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-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124251"}],"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=1124251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124406,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124251\/revisions\/1124406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}