Latest Chile News

Great Southern Mining (ASX:GSN) has launched an aggressive 20,000m drilling campaign targeting multiple gold discoveries across Western Australia and Queensland, including expansions at Golden Boulder and Amy Clarke, and diamond drilling at the Edinburgh Park joint venture with Gold Fields.

Culpeo Minerals (ASX:CPO) has launched a pro-rata entitlement issue of approximately 198 million unlisted options, aiming to raise nearly A$500,000 to fund accelerated copper exploration in Chile. The options offer a low exercise price and long expiry, providing shareholders with leveraged exposure to the company’s drilling programs at El Quillay and Vista Montana.

Marimaca Copper has expanded its high-grade bornite zone at Pampa Medina with new drilling revealing significant copper and silver grades, including intersections in basement metasediments for the first time, indicating potential for further resource growth.

Cobre Limited’s Chilean subsidiary has increased its stake in the Sierra Atacama Copper Project from 45% to over 54% through a $12 million capital raise, with a clear path to majority control by year-end.

FMR Resources has enhanced its geological understanding of the La Lorena Project in Chile through a helicopter magnetic and radiometric survey, revealing new prospects and structural corridors that underpin a large-scale porphyry system.

Andean Silver Limited has delivered exceptional high-grade drilling results at its Cerro Bayo Silver-Gold Project in Chile, including a standout intercept of 268g/t gold and 3,045g/t silver over 1.4m at the Trinidad vein. The company is advancing resource upgrades and preparing for the first district-wide drilling campaign in two decades.

Andean Silver has promoted Matthew Allen to Managing Director, cementing his leadership as the company pushes its Cerro Bayo silver-gold project closer to production.

Cobre Limited is progressing a major upgrade of its Sierra Atacama copper project in Chile, aiming to convert a large foreign resource estimate into a JORC-compliant Mineral Resource Estimate while launching a 40,000-metre drilling program targeting near-mine expansion and deeper sulphide mineralisation.

Tesoro Gold has accelerated its Definitive Feasibility Study and development readiness for the 1.82Moz Ternera deposit, forming strategic alliances and advancing financing plans.

Andean Silver has significantly expanded its Cerro Bayo silver-gold project resource, increasing the Indicated Mineral Resource by 230% to 60 million ounces silver equivalent and raising the total resource to 136 million ounces AgEq. This upgrade sets the stage for upcoming feasibility studies and a major drilling campaign.

Asara Resources has adjusted its $60 million institutional placement after Barbet LLC FZ reduced its subscription significantly, with the balance placed to other investors to keep the raise on track. The funds will accelerate drilling and development at the Kada Gold Project in Guinea.

Flagship Minerals has wrapped up its metallurgical drilling and trenching at the 2.1Moz Isidora Gold Project in Chile, progressing to pilot scale heap leach test work and ongoing infill drilling targeting a resource update later this year.