Gran Pilar Gold Project Moves Toward Pilot Production | Brodie Sutherland

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Brodie Sutherland discusses Tocvan Ventures' Gran Pilar gold-silver project and its pilot mining operation.

Tocvan Ventures (CSE: TOC) is advancing its Gran Pilar gold-silver project in Sonora, Mexico, with a strategy that combines exploration drilling with a permitted pilot mining operation aimed at demonstrating heap leach production potential. Speaking with Kitco Mining at PDAC 2026, CEO Brodie Sutherland said the company spent three years consolidating the land package around a discovery first drilled by the Lundin Group in 1996. “We negotiated a deal to expand that property to 22 square kilome...

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Host: Kitco MEDIA

Guest: Brodie Sutherland

Topics covered

• gold mining
• exploration drilling
• pilot production
• heap leach
• mining strategy

Keywords

• Gran Pilar
• gold-silver project
• Tocvan Ventures
• heap leach production
• Sonora

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tocvan Ventures, Lundin Group

Places: Sonora, Mexico

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