Of diamonds and dynasties

junior mining, diamonds

Legendary diamonds have long been associated with imperial dynasties. Now, just as a new book promises to revive interest in the multi-empire story of the fabled Koh-i-Noor gem, Alrosa has unveiled a suite of five stones commemorating great families of old Russia. In doing so, the mining giant marks a new emphasis not just on extracting exceptional stones, but cutting and polishing them too. The company says it will use state-of-the-art techniques to revive traditions dating back to Peter I. read more

Balmoral Announces Brokered $3.0 Million Private Placement of Flow-Through Common Shares

Canadian junior explorers

Balmoral Resources Ltd. (TSX:BAR) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with PI Financial Corp. as lead agent on behalf of a syndicate of agents, pursuant to which the Agents have agreed to offer 4,225,000 national flow-through common shares of the Company at a price of C$0.71 per National FT Share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$2,999,750 read more at Balmoral

Arizona Mining’s Expanded Drill Program Hits More High-Grade Mineralization Outside PEA Resource Outline

Arizona Mining, T.AZ, zinc, lead, silver
VANCOUVER, BC–(Marketwired – August 08, 2017) – Arizona Mining Inc. (TSX: AZ) (“Arizona Mining” or the “Company”) announces the results of three exploration holes from the current nine rig drill program focused on expansion of the Taylor Sulfide Zone (“TS”) and Taylor Deeps Zone (“TDS”) located on its 100%-owned Hermosa Project in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The drill holes highlighted in this release are successful step out exploration and infill drill holes indicating the potential for resource growth and increased grades from the Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) (see Press Release dated April 3, 2017).
  • 62 FEET ASSAYING 32.5% ZINC-LEAD AND 5.8 OPT SILVER
  • 35 FEET ASSAYING 24.0% ZINC-LEAD AND 21.0 OPT SILVER
  • 36.5 FEET ASSAYING 17.1% ZINC-LEAD AND 3.1 OPT SILVER
  • 17.5 FEET ASSAYING 14.5% ZINC-LEAD AND 2.2 OPT SILVER

“The drill results continue to significantly expand the Taylor Sulfide and Taylor Deeps Zones and show higher zinc-lead-silver grades. It is clear that the expanded drill program continues to not only add tons to the ultimate size of the deposit, but more importantly, they are higher grade tons that should benefit the economics of the project,” said Chief Operating Officer Don Taylor. read more