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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Mar 24, 2014) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV) is pleased to provide a further update on the drill program underway at the Bayovar 12 phosphate project near Piura in northern Peru. Two rigs are currently on site carrying out a first phase diamond drill program in the western end of the 12,575-hectare concession. Drilling is progressing well, with 10 holes completed [...]

VANCOUVER, CANADA--(Marketwired - Mar 17, 2014) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV) reports that it has revised its previously announced private placement to increase the size of the financing to $1,254,000, and, as required by the TSX Venture Exchange, to increase the exercise price of the warrants to 26.5 cents per share. Accordingly, the private placement will be up to 5.7 million units at 22 cents per unit [...]

VANCOUVER, CANADA--(Marketwired - Mar 17, 2014) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV) announces that it has terminated its option with Stonegate Agricom Ltd. ("Stonegate") (TSX: ST, ST.WT.A) to earn a 70% interest in the Mantaro phosphate deposit, located 250 km east of Lima in the District of Junin, central Peru. Details of Focus' exclusive right and option were announced in a joint news release dated October 25 [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Mar 11, 2014) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV): Mr. David Cass, the President of Focus Ventures, is pleased to provide an update on the Company's diamond drill program at the Bayovar 12 mining concession, Peru. Bayovar 12 shows potential to host a large sedimentary phosphate deposit, and is close to the operating Bayovar phosphate mine, owned by Vale, Mosaic and [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2014) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV) is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced at the Bayovar 12 phosphate project. All necessary approvals for the drill program have been received from the Peruvian Authorities and two drills are currently on site. Twenty holes will be drilled on a grid pattern over an area approximately 14km2 (1,400 hectares [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2014) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV), the Latin American phosphate explorer, is pleased to provide an overview of the Company's 2014 plans for exploration of the Bayovar 12 phosphate project in northern Peru. On January 14, 2014, the Company signed a formal Option Agreement for the acquisition of shares in Juan Paulo Quay S.A.C. ("JPQ"), the titleholders of [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec 18, 2013) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV) is pleased to announce the following appointments to its Technical Advisory Board and Board of Directors. The Company has appointed Mr. Absalón Aguilar Lagos as a Consultant to its Peruvian subsidiary, Agrifos Peru S.A.C. Mr. Aguilar, a Peruvian National, is a highly respected geological engineer with extensive experience in the Bayovar phosphate district where he has worked since 1964 in various roles for public, private and government companies, with special expertise in phosphate processing and metallurgy. From 2001 - 2007 he acted as General Manager for Minera Regional Grau Bayovar and Activos Mineros, both Peruvian State Companies responsible for the success... [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec 2, 2013) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV) is pleased to advise that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement by issuing 12.5 million units at $0.12 per unit, for gross proceeds of $1.5 million. Each unit consists of one common share and one warrant, each warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share of the [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov 29, 2013) - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FCV) announces that its management has determined that it is in the best interests of the Company to extend the expiry date of certain private placement warrants previously issued by the Company. Accordingly, subject to TSX Venture Exchange acceptance, the expiry date of outstanding warrants entitling the holders to purchase [...]

Focus Ventures and Stonegate Agricom are pleased to announce that following completion of due diligence by Focus they have entered into an amended and restated Letter of Intent pursuant to which Focus has been granted the exclusive right and option to earn a 70% interest in the Mantaro phosphate deposit, located 250 km east of Lima in the District of Junin, central Peru. To earn a 70% interest Focus must invest a [...]