{"id":42881,"date":"2024-02-02T08:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=42881"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:59:19","slug":"terra-balcanica-growing-value-through-discovery-in-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/terra-balcanica-growing-value-through-discovery-in-balkans\/42881\/","title":{"rendered":"Terra Balcanica Resources Corp: Growing value through discovery in the Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"
What do you get when you combine a millennia of mining history, two resource extraction-friendly European jurisdictions with clear paths to permitting mineral exploration concessions, a knowledgeable workforce, and a continent starved for critical metallic resources?<\/p>\n
Add to that a world class metallogenic expertise and a plethora of innovative geochemical and geophysical techniques that helped define grassroot drill targets in less than a year, all of which proved to be mineralised. Welcome to Terra Balcanica Resources Corp. and its ~350km\u00b2 polymetallic portfolio of the Western Balkan Peninsula.<\/p>\n
Terra Balcanica is a junior Canadian explorer of precious and base metal resources in Europe\u2019s front yard, where it has been advancing five exploration licenses in Bosnia and Serbia. Listed on both the Canadian Securities Exchange<\/a> (CSE:TERA), and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FRA:UB1), the company has made strides since acquiring its flagship land package in eastern Bosnia in 2020.<\/p>\n Called the Viogor-Zanik Project<\/a>, the 215km\u00b2 aggregate of licences surrounds the operation Sase mine (Mineco Ltd.) with an annual production of 350,000 tonnes of Pb-Zn-Ag+\/- Sb concentrate, and is centred upon a mining district mined as far back as the Roman times when it was known as Argentaria<\/em>.<\/p>\n In slightly over three years, Terra\u2019s technical and field teams have mapped, sampled, surveyed, and drilled two out of three highly prospective target zones within the only Oligo-Miocene manifestation of the highly prolific Western Tethyan orogen in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n The belt, whose mapped southeastern extension reaches Afghanistan via the Balkans, Turkey, and Iran, features world class porphyry copper and epithermal gold-silver deposits (Sarcheshmeh, Sari Guni, Ki\u015fladag, Skouries, Olympias, Trepca), and terminates right at Terra Balcanica\u2019s feet as the metalliferous Srebrenica Magmatic Complex.<\/p>\n Here, a meticulously systematic approach of layering dozens of data sets obtained by months of lithological and structural mapping, combined by those gained from airborne geophysics, satellite multispectral terrain surveys, and thousands of rock and soil chemical assays revealed two genetically distinct, yet equally attractive targets worth drill testing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And drill, Terra did. Both the Cumavici and Brezani targets were tested to the tune of over 2,000m of diamond drilling, respectively, with attractive metal grades intercepted close to surface but the story does not stop with Bosnia.<\/p>\n In neighbouring Serbia and another mining heavyweight of Europe (e.g. Timok District), Terra Balcanica operates two exploration concessions in the historic Rashka district, once home to many a medieval Saxon miner employed by the Serbian kings of the epoch.<\/p>\n Here, the Ceovishte and Kaludra licences comprise a 130km\u00b2 land portfolio rich in Zn-Pb-Ag-Au-Cu showings. Particularly interesting is the former, where Terra\u2019s geologists have collected high-grade precious metal samples on-surface that overlay historical workings featuring highly enriched vein-hosted mineralisation. None of the Serbian targets have been drill tested to date, and remain Terra\u2019s immediate focus for the 2024 Phase III campaign.<\/p>\n As only the second (foreign) mineral explorer in Bosnia, Terra Balcanica is poised to capitalise on regional early-mover opportunities, while remaining a nimble, agile, and cost-effective explorer of choice in SE Europe.<\/p>\n For many at Terra, discovering mineable resources needed by the world of tomorrow is not just a self-evident mission but an homage to the proud, century-long history of mining in Europe.<\/p>\n Ours is a disciplined and creative team of mining professionals that has demonstrated an ability to make discoveries in places overlooked or abandoned by others, and to leverage these forgotten or neglected gems as incubators of the mining continuum, and value creators for our shareholders.<\/p>\n Whether it is systematically rehashing volumes of archived data sets, modelling newly acquired geophysical data, or rapidly ground-truthing the rugged vast expanse of the Western Balkan Peninsula aimed at targeting the \u2018sweet spots\u2019 \u2013 discovery is in our geological DNA. Our leadership group and technical team are fully vested and singularly committed to this goal.<\/p>\nA multidisciplinary approach to target definition<\/h3>\n
The art of discovery<\/h3>\n
The \u010cumavi\u0107i target<\/h3>\n