{"id":845311,"date":"2018-07-13T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=845311"},"modified":"2018-07-13T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:05:19","slug":"solgold-intersects-copper-gold-at-flagship-project-in-ecuador-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=845311","title":{"rendered":"SolGold intersects copper, gold at flagship project in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON:SOLG) (TSX:SOLG) said Friday it had intersected copper and gold deposits while drilling at Alpala and Aguinaga prospects its 85%-owned Cascabel copper-gold project, in northern Ecuador.<\/p>\n

Extension drilling at Alpala Central was expected to extend the high-grade mineralization along the lower and northeast margins of the deposit, located about 180 km north of the country’s capital Quito.<\/p>\n

The Cascabel project is located in the northern portion of the Andean copper belt in Ecuador, renowned for hosting almost half the world’s copper known reserves.<\/q><\/p>\n

The company, which began trading in the Toronto Stock Exchange<\/a> last year, said that infill drilling, meanwhile, was expected to contribute to an upgrade of the resource, where early-stage copper- and gold-rich intrusions appeared on drill evidence to be more continuous than previously modelled.<\/p>\n

One hole in particular returned 458m at 0.71% copper equivalent, SolGold said.<\/p>\n

SolGold’s Cascabel has been compared to Rio Tinto’s world class Oyu Tolgoi copper mine<\/a> in Mongolia and the results from hole 26 seem to indicate there is much more intense mineralization in the property than evident in previous drilling results.<\/p>\n

It’s located in the northern portion of the Andean copper belt in Ecuador, renowned for hosting almost half the world’s copper known reserves.<\/p>\n

The South American country has been gaining ground as a mining investment destination thanks to a revised regulatory framework and a major investor engagement campaign<\/a> that has already attracted around 420 applications for concessions in less than a year.<\/p>\n

In March, in fact, Anglo American (LON:AAL) became the latest big miner to land in the South American country. Through a deal with Lumina Gold, a Toronto-listed group, the company plans to develop two copper and gold concessions there.<\/p>\n

Currently, the nation’s emerging mining sector employs 3,700 people, but the government estimates<\/a> the figure will rise to about 16,000 in the 2017-2020 period.<\/p>\n

The post SolGold intersects copper, gold at flagship project in Ecuador<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From:: Mining.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON:SOLG) (TSX:SOLG) said Friday it had intersected copper and gold deposits while drilling at Alpala and Aguinaga prospects its 85%-owned Cascabel copper-gold project, in northern Ecuador. Extension drilling at Alpala Central was expected to extend the high-grade mineralization along the lower and northeast margins of the deposit, located about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845311"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}