Archives: Mineral exploration

Russia-based Norilsk Nickel is actively implementing its Technology Breakthrough programme and is seeing significant returns when it comes to exploration and operations knowledge, Sergey Dyachenko told IM earlier this week ahead of the company’s Capital Markets Day in London. While the programme, which started in 2014, aimed to digitise and automate most processes at the[…]

Copper Mountain Mining Corp has filed a technical report on the feasibility study for its Eva copper project prepared in accordance with NI 43-101.  The Eva Copper Technical Report is in support of the company’s October 1, 2018 news release announcing the feasibility study results on the project. The company has also filed a technical[…]

High Purity Alumina (HPA) developer, FYI Resources Ltd has started a BFS for its wholly-owned Cadoux kaolin project (E70/4673) in Western Australia. This follows the excellent economic outcomes achieved in the Cadoux PFS, released to the ASX on 25 September 2018. The PFS outlines a HPA production scenario of 8,000 t/y via a conventional HCl[…]

Pioneer Aerial Surveys Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Global UAV Technologies Ltd, a diversified and vertically integrated drone technology company, has secured a UAV-MAG™ survey contract in Brazil with the potential for significant survey expansion. This survey marks the first services contract in Brazil for Pioneer Aerial and with this new contract Pioneer Aerial[…]

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp has received its Type A Water License from the Nunavut Water Board (NWB) for the company’s 100% owned Back River gold project in Nunavut, Canada. Receipt of the Type A Water License represents a key step in the environmental permitting process and will enable activities at site including mine construction[…]

Pan American Silver Corp and Tahoe Resources Inc have entered into a definitive agreement for Pan American to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Tahoe pursuant to a plan of arrangement, creating the world’s premier silver mining company. Highlights of the combined entity, according to Pan American Silver: Worldclass primary silver asset portfolio, diversified[…]

S&P Global Market Intelligence report highlights global nonferrous exploration budgets increased for the second consecutive year, up 19% year-over-year. Key takeaways: •Global nonferrous exploration budget increased 19% to $10.1 billion •Junior exploration companies budgets increased by 35% •Number of active exploration companies increased for first time since 2012 — up 8% to 1,651 •Cobalt &[…]

Exploration drilling at the Kamoa North prospect area, on the 397-km2 Kamoa-Kakula mining licence, approximately 25 km west of the mining centre of Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has successfully delineated two new, continuous corridors of shallow copper mineralization containing zones of thick, high-grade copper. The newly delineated copper corridors occur on[…]

Rock Tech Lithium Inc reports that an NI 43-101 Technical Report completed by DMT GmbH has been filed on SEDAR. The Technical Report, a PEA, assesses the economic potential at Rock Tech’s flagship 100%-owned Georgia Lake lithium property in the Thunder Bay Mining District of northwest Ontario, Canada. The results of the PEA include a[…]

West African gold explorer and developer Azumah Resources Ltd has commenced a 40,000 m, A$4 million multi-target drilling campaign aimed at lifting Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves at its Wa gold project in Ghana, where the primary objective is to deliver an economically attractive, development-ready project by Q3 2019. Azumah Managing Director, Stephen Stone, said[…]