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Lundin Mining Corp. has acquired a 15.4-per-cent stake in Salazar Resources Ltd. , a junior miner with operations in Ecuador.

Lundin acquired the stake by taking up 80 per cent of a private placement deal saw Salazar raise $3 million by issuing six million shares and half-warrants of the company.

Additionally Silvercorp Metals Inc. took part in the financing to maintain its 10.7-per-cent stake in Salazar, which is developing the El Domo gold and base metals deposit in Ecuador.

"Lundin Mining is world-renowned for their successes in identifying and advancing high quality mineral development projects through to production," Salazar chief executive officer Fredy Salazar said in a release before stock markets opened Friday.

Salazar is developing the Curipamba project, which includes the El Domo deposit. The company also has a portfolio of 42,900 hectares of exploration property.

Lundin is a diversified miner producing copper, zinc, lead and nickel from mines in Portugal, Sweden, Spain and Ireland.

The company's main mines are the underground Neves-Corvo operation in Portugal, the Galmoy mine in Ireland, Aguablanca in Spain and Zinkgruvan in southwestern Sweden.

In addition, the company has development projects which include its Neves-Corvo mine and a stake in the Tenke Fungurume copper/cobalt mine which is undergoing a major expansion in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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SymbolName% changeLast
LUN-T
Lundin Mining Corp
+3.43%13.86
SRL-X
Salazar Resources Ltd
-7.69%0.06
SVM-A
Silvercorp Metals Inc
+3.49%3.26
SVM-T
Silvercorp Metals Inc
+3.52%4.41

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