Tourmaline breccia at the Red Springs project contains tourmaline which shows chaotic zonation, typical of mineralized porphyry systems.

Former Nevsun Resources leader, Peter Kukielski, will serve as interim-CEO, while the miner looks for a permanent boss.

The company conducted its copper modeling project using public government data and its own proprietary data.

Southern Copper has spent years waiting for the final green light that consecutive governments had declined to give.

Now the Vancouver-based company can set a target date for its 2019 resource expansion and target testing drill program.

The company has received promising assays from two more drill holes at the Opemiska copper mine complex near Chapais.

Brazil has a backlog of more than 20,000 areas where mining rights expired or were otherwise lost by their previous holders, equivalent to roughly 10% of the areas with pending mining permits.