{"id":277853,"date":"2019-06-03T04:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMifGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1pbmluZ3dlZWtseS5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS9hbHR1cy1zdWJzaWRpYXJ5LXNlY3VyZXMtZXhwbG9yYXRpb24tbGljZW5jZS1mb3ItY29wcGVyZ29sZC16b25lLWluLWV0aGlvcGlhLTIwMTktMDYtMDPSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:28","slug":"altus-won-a-three-year-copper-and-gold-exploration-licence-at-zager-in-tigray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277853","title":{"rendered":"Altus won a three-year copper and gold exploration licence at Zager in Tigray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Mining Weekly reported that a subsidiary of AIM- and TSX-V-listed Altus Strategies had secured a three-year exploration licence for the Zager copper and gold prospect in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray Region.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Altus won a three-year copper and gold exploration licence at Zager in Tigray\" \/>\n<p>Junior miners often use Ethiopian licences to test Arabian-Nubian Shield geology, and a Tigray award in 2019 later sits in a darker security context after war disrupted northern exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as mining and FDI archive, the Mining Weekly note dates one pre-war northern exploration grant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miningweekly.com\/article\/altus-subsidiary-secures-exploration-licence-for-coppergold-zone-in-ethiopia-2019-06-03\">Mining Weekly<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altus subsidiary secures exploration licence for copper\/gold zone in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;Creamer Media&#8217;s Mining WeeklyA subsidiary of Aim- and TSX-V-listed Altus Resources has been granted a three-year exploration licence for the Zager copper\/gold pros&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ahv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755013,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277853\/revisions\/755013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}