{"id":1165539,"date":"2020-02-13T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1013777"},"modified":"2020-02-13T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:00:57","slug":"mexican-gold-owns-worlds-best-drill-intersection-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1165539","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Gold owns world\u2019s best drill intersection of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican Gold&#8217;s (TSXV: MEX) Queensway gold project in Canada&#8217;s Newfoundland province reported the most significant drill intersections of 2020 to date, according to intelligence company Opaxe, based on companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.<\/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<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opaxe.com\/intel\/weekly-bulletin-opaxe-bulletin-wk06-2020\/\" >Opaxe<\/a>&nbsp;compiles the best drill intersections around the world and then ranks them based on gold equivalent grams per tonne using ruling metal and mineral prices. <\/p>\n<p>The top class grades over 19 meters boosted MEX shares 25% higher on the TSX Venture Exchange the day after the announcement.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Walker River Resources&#8217; (TSXV: WRR) Lapon Canyon  gold project in Nevada  lands second place,  with good grades over 13.7 meters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-6-1024x413.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1013877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-6-1024x413.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-6-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-6-768x310.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-6.png 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> Year to date significant drill results from Opaxe weekly bulletin 03 \u2013 09 February 2020 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Based on companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, Evolution Mining&#8217;s (ASX: EVN) Cowal gold project in Sidney is the runaway winner, with Westgold Resources (ASX: WGX) gold project Fortnum in western Australia coming in second.<\/p>\n<p>Number 3 on the list, Oklo\u2019s (ASX: OKU) gold project in Mali returned top class grades over 55 meters  \u2013 and OKU shares opened 57% higher on the  Australian Securities Exchange the day after the announcement. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-7-1024x441.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1013878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-7-1024x441.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-7-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-7-768x331.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-7.png 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> Year to date significant drill results from Opaxe weekly bulletin 03 \u2013 09 February 2020  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Australian companies are responsible for eight of the ten most significant drill intersections so far this year, followed by Canadian companies with seven.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<h2>Significant drill intersections of the week<\/h2>\n<p>The ranking of significant drill intersections of the week is based on companies listed on Australian Securities Exchange was led by Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) silver-gold-copper Alacran project in Mexico  with reports of &#8220;robust estimates of the true mineralised thicknesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Based on companies listed on Toronto Stock Exchange the weekly ranking was topped by Walker River Resources Lapon Canyon gold project in Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top class grades boosted the company&#8217;s shares 25% higher the day after the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"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":[624,2849,369,4,2640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165539"}],"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\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165569,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165539\/revisions\/1165569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}