Archives: Mineral exploration

Capital Drilling’s push into West Africa will start paying off in the second half of the year, according to Executive Chairman, Jamie Boyton, with the contractor having sealed a number of drilling agreements in the region in the opening six months of 2019. The company has progressively invested more resources in West Africa over the[…]

GR Engineering Services (GRES) is to act as engineer for the definitive feasibility study on AVZ Minerals’ 60%-owned Manono lithium and tin project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Australia-listed developer said. GRES, based in Perth, Western Australia, is an engineering group with significant experience in study management and the engineering design and construction[…]

Australia-listed Mali Lithium has appointed Lycopodium Minerals Pty Ltd to complete the definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the Goulamina lithium project, in Mali. A July 2018 prefeasibility study on Goulamina outlined an open-pit hard rock mining operation with a 2 Mt/y concentrating plant. The project was scoped to produce 362,000 t/y of 6% Li2O spodumene[…]

Seequent says it continues its investment in geoscience technology and innovation with a minority shareholding and partnership with Minalytix, a Canadian mining data software company. Seequent’s CEO, Shaun Maloney, says: “We’re actively seeking out ways to foster and grow further innovation for the betterment of our customers. Our shareholding and partnership with Minalytix demonstrates our[…]

Piedmont Lithium has become the latest US-focused exploration company to use Micromine modelling to refine its mineral resource estimate – reporting a 47% increase in the process. The company is on track to own the US’ largest spodumene orebody, located in the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, in North Carolina, after increasing the mineral resource estimate to[…]

Saint Jean Carbon Inc, a carbon science company engaged in the design and build of green energy storage, green energy creation and green re-creation through the use of carbon materials has announced the signing of an arm’s length term sheet on June 28 2019 to acquire Process Research Ortech Inc (PRO). PRO is a privately[…]

GGX Gold Corp announces that it is planning to drill a high priority geophysical target at its Gold Drop property in the Greenwood Mining Camp. The proprietary Stargate II (SG II) Drill Target Modelling System incorporates Acoustic EM analysis, technology that was developed by Earth Science Services Corporation of Oshawa, Ontario (ESSCO). SG II employs[…]

Multotec Process Equipment says the growth and diversification of West Africa’s mining sector is making the precision of mineral sampling a “vital priority”. For over two decades, Multotec has been active in the West Africa market, with its samplers at over 30 sites in countries including Ghana, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali and[…]

OZ Minerals has awarded multiple prizes as part of the online crowdsourcing Explorer Challenge, organised in partnership with energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed. The submissions for the crowdsourcing competition to find new exploration targets at the Mount Woods tenements of the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine (pictured), in South Australia, ranged from cutting edge[…]

Sierra Metals Inc reports that the company has received its permit to construct the expansion of the tailing dam facility as well as its permit for the surface drilling program at its Yauricocha polymetallic mine in Peru. Igor Gonzales, President, and CEO of Sierra Metals commented: “This is exciting news for the company. Receipt of the construction[…]