Industrial Minerals


Erin Ventures to start drill at Serbian boron project in weeks

27 June 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

Drilling precedes feasibility study, project estimated to be world’s largest

Keywords: Erin Ventures, Piskanja, Serbia, Rio Tinto, boron, colemanite, ulexite, B2O3, NI 143-101, Jadar, Balkan Gold

Canada’s Erin Ventures said it will be starting a drilling programme in “a couple of weeks” on its Piskanja boron project in Serbia – 15 years after it first acquired the mine.

Erin was the first international company to invest in Serbia following the tumultuous civil war, which took place in the 1990s and saw a division of Yugoslavia into six member states.

Erin drew up...