Among the highlights of IMPN issue 254 are the ground-breaking ceremony held at Endeavour Mining Corp’s Houndé project site in Burkina Faso. Construction began in April 2016 and is progressing on-time and on-budget with the first gold pour expected during the fourth quarter of 2017. Contact [email protected] for subscription details.

Pretium Resources reporting on the progress of site construction activities at its high-grade gold Brucejack project located in northwest British Columbia. Nautilus Minerals continues to seek and consider various alternative sources of financing in order to maintain the development of the Solwara 1 project.

In the latest issue of IMPN there are updates on some 20 prefeasibility studies, 17 feasibility studies, 28 projects in development, five mines that have gone into production six operations in expansion, a dozen in acquisitions and mergers and many new appointments to new positions. There is, as always, a lot of important development progress news at projects around the world. Much more information is available in the issue – contact [email protected] for subscription details.