 Aurion Resources Ltd said mining major B2Gold Corp was set to acquire a further 19 of the pairs joint venture JV in Finland, taking the formers total interest in the project up to 70 after exercising an option. The JV covers an area of around 331 square kilometres sq km along the major crustal scale Sirkka Shear Zone in the Central Lapland greenstone belt, and since the deal was struck in 2016, B2Gold has completed more than C15 million in exploration expenditures, paid Aurion C50,000 in cash, and issued 550,000 of its shares. 