Meridian  Mining  reported assays  from  drilling at  the  Cabaçal gold‐copper VMS  deposit  in Brazil showing the shallowest horizons of the resource area host strong potential for further gold‐copper  mineralization  and  were  not  adequately  assayed  or  tested  via  historical  drilling.  GR Silver Mining announced additional surface drilling results in the Southeast Area silver discovery at its Plomosas project, in Sinaloa, Mexico including the first ever visible gold occurrence at San Marcial. Tinka Resources hit its highest-grade intercept ever with infill drilling at its Ayawilca zinc project in Cajamarca, Peru with 44.9m grading 12% zinc at West Ayawilca including 16.1m at 22.2% zinc.  Marimaca Copper intersected two higher grade green oxide zones located in the northern, Atahualpa, sector at its Marimaca oxide deposit in Chille.