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VANCOUVER, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV) is pleased to announce that drilling has started at the El Reventon silver-gold property, located in Durango, Mexico. A total of 2,000m is planned to test several targets, commencing with the Estrella area where at least five mineralized breccias and veins have been discovered over an area of roughly 700m long x 250m wide. Surface and underground sampling by Focus at the Estrella mine has shown significant...

VANCOUVER, March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV) is pleased to announce assay results from the re-sampling of historical drill cores at its Aurora Cu-Mo project located in the Department of Cuzco, southeastern Peru. Thirteen holes drilled in 1999 and 2005 cut significant intervals of copper and molybdenum mineralization, including 244m @ 0.48% Cu, 0.007% Mo in DDA-1, 142m @ 0.5% Cu, 0.004% Mo in DDA-3, and 71.7m @ 0.7% Cu, 0.007% Mo in DDA-3A (see Focus...

VANCOUVER, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: FCV) announces that as a result of a review by the British Columbia Securities Commission, it is issuing this news release to clarify its technical disclosure. The Company previously published on its website a shareholder update dated June 2010, a map of north-central Peru, and a corporate presentation dated December 2012. Certain technical disclosures in these documents were not NI 43-101 compliant, as follows:...

VANCOUVER, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: FCV) is pleased to announce that its Colombian subsidiary, Agrifos Colombia Corp ("Agrifos"), has signed an option agreement with a private Colombian company for the Luisa Maria Phosphate property located in the Department of Boyaca, Colombia, and a strategic agreement to acquire additional phosphate concessions in Colombia. The Luisa Maria property comprises approximately 1,651 hectares of titled mining...

VANCOUVER, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: FCV) is pleased to announce that it has received initial results from a geophysical survey undertaken by Fugro Geophysics Pty Ltd at its Aurora Cu-Mo project located in the Department of Cusco, southeastern Peru. The results of the survey support Focus's interpretation that the Aurora mineralizing system extends well beyond the limits of the historical drilling and could contain a large porphyry copper molybdenum...

VANCOUVER, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV) is pleased to provide its shareholders with an update on exploration at its Santa Cruz silver project in Mexico. Focus controls a district-scale land position covering a number of silver discoveries made since late 2011 and is currently preparing for a drill program. New mineralization was sampled at Colorin and La Plomosa, located 400m east of the Estrella mine in the El Reventon property area. At Colorin,...

VANCOUVER, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: FCV) is pleased to announce the signing of a surface access agreement with the local community at its Aurora Cu-Mo project located in south-eastern Peru, and the commencement of an Induced Polarization and Magnetic Survey by Fugro Geophysics Pty Ltd. The work is expected to take around a month to complete. The Aurora project shows potential for the definition of a large copper-molybdenum porphyry system. The...

VANCOUVER, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV) is pleased to announce an update on exploration at its El Reventon project, located in the western half of its Santa Cruz project in Durango, Mexico. Focus controls a district-scale land position covering a number of silver discoveries made since late 2011, which includes the 4,430 hectare El Reventon property. A 930-sample grid-based soil survey undertaken over El Reventon has identified multiple silver...

VANCOUVER, Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Definitive Agreement with International Northair Mines Ltd. (TSXV: INM, "Northair") granting Focus the option to acquire a majority interest in the El Reventon property, located in the State of Durango, Mexico. In addition to terms previously announced (see press release dated April 10, 2012), the parties have agreed that once Focus has earned its 65% interest in...

VANCOUVER, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Quebranta phosphate project located in the Ocucaje region approximately 300km south of Lima along the coastal desert some 30km from tidewater. The project consists of 27,000 hectares acquired by direct staking. An additional 450 hectares were acquired under an option agreement signed with a local company and Agrifos Peru S.A.C (a subsidiary of Focus) where...