{"id":1163264,"date":"2020-02-03T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1012703"},"modified":"2020-02-03T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:15:46","slug":"minaurum-adds-gold-property-to-its-mexican-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1163264","title":{"rendered":"Minaurum adds gold property to its Mexican portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minaurum Gold (TSXV: MGG) announced that it has expanded its presence in the Alamos Mining District in Sonora, Mexico by acquiring control of the Aur\u00edfero gold project. <\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Minaurum has signed a five-year option to acquire 100% of a large block of claims covering 1,198 hectares in exchange for $2.7 million with no royalties outstanding<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a press release, Minaurum said that the 1,229-hectare project lies 35 kilometres northwest of its Alamos silver property. In the middle of both projects is Mexico&#8217;s third-largest copper mine, Cobre Del Mayo&#8217;s Piedras Verdes mine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Vancouver-based miner, Aur\u00edfero contains a swarm of gold- and silver-bearing epithermal veins within a NW\/SE-trending zone measuring 3 kilometres long and more than 400 metres wide. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Historical data shows that the project has never been drilled deeper than 135 metres and some of the deepest holes stopped in mineralization,&#8221; Darrell Rader, Minaurum&#8217;s president and CEO, said in the press brief. &#8220;Our due diligence found evidence that past exploration and current mining targeted only the highest levels of a substantial epithermal gold and silver system. We will permit and drill several deep holes in 2020 to test our geological model.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian miner is expanding its presence in the Alamos Mining District in Sonora.<\/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],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163264"}],"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=1163264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163265,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163264\/revisions\/1163265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}