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Goldcorp drops $35M into Auryn GOLD
| Cash to help junior on Committee Bay play in Nunavut BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com
G At Antioquia Gold’s Cisneros gold mine project in Colombia: Julian Villarruel, Antioquia’s former president and CEO, who now serves as president of Antioquia Gold’s Colombian subsidiary (front left); and Jim Decker, Antioquia’s executive vice-president of investor relations. PHOTO BY JOHN CUMMING
Antioquia Gold pushes Cisneros to production SITE VISIT BY JOHN CUMMING jcumming@northernminer.com MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
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| Junior aims to mine 30,000 oz. gold annually in Colombia Red Eagle was first out of the “RATHER THAN SPEND $3 MILLION gate with its San Ramon gold mine, ON EXPLORATION, WE SAID: ‘WE HAVE where it poured first gold in November; Antioquia Gold will be second, ENOUGH ALREADY TO GET STARTED.’”
t’s full steam ahead for Antioquia Gold (TSXV: AGD; US-OTC: AGDFX) at its Cisneros high-grade gold mine under construction 2 km east of the town of Cisneros in northwestern Colombia’s Antioquia department, with underground development well advanced and commercial production rates targeted to begin mid-2017.
JIM DECKER EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT, ANTIOQUIA GOLD
Dozens of foreign gold-mining companies have descended on Colombia over the past decade, but Antioquia Gold stands with Red Eagle Mining (TSX: R) and Continental Gold (TSX: CNL) as one of only three that have achieved,
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or are soon to achieve, commercial gold production at newly built mines in the country — with all three mines located in the miningfriendly Antioquia department, where artisanal gold miners have been active for generations.
oldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) is taking a 12.5% stake in Auryn Resources (TSX: AUG; US-OTC: GGTCF) for $35 million — a sum that will be used to fund a 55,000-metre exploration drill program this year across the junior’s projects in Nunavut, British Columbia and Peru. “We’ve spoken with a number of major mining companies over the last little while, and we realized that there was a lot of synergy with Goldcorp,” president and CEO Shawn Wallace says in an interview. “We’ve got a common mind on See AURYN / 6
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targeting the third quarter of 2017 for start-up; and Continental Gold will likely be third at its larger Buritica project, where the firm recently obtained environmental permits that pave the way for mine construction to start in the second half of 2017, and gold production perhaps two years later. The wholly owned, 58 sq. km See ANTIOQUIA / 2
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