Archives: Mineral exploration

Avalon Advanced Materials has released a new PEA for its East Kemptville tin project in Nova Scotia, Canada. The study reveals a positive economic case for further development of the project, with optical ore sorting being considered to reduce costs further. The company’s model is to produce ~700 t/y of tin in a 55% concentrate[…]

Mining and exploration investment company CENTAR Ltd and its operating company Afghan Gold and Minerals Co (AGMC) has signed contracts with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to develop two sites in Balkhab and Badakhshan with potentially significant copper and gold deposits. Together, these contracts represent the largest mining exploration effort in the[…]

Southern Gold Ltd has completed the first phase of systematic underground channel sampling at its Deokon gold project in the central-southwest of South Korea under its strategy to commence work quickly on newly acquired tenure. Access discussions with the land-owner were approved and risk assessments conducted within three-weeks of tenement Jeonju 70 being granted. Underground[…]

Poseidon nickel has signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) with two exploration companies in Western Australia to toll-treat nickel ores. This follows Poseidon’s recent feasibility study which confirmed that the re-start of its own Silver Swan mine and Black Swan mine and concentrator were economic. The MOUs were signed with exploration companies Sulphide X and Estrella[…]

CSIRO’s Data61, the technology arm of Australia’s national science agency, is competing in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subterranean (or SubT) Challenge, which aims to explore new approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments. Data61’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, one of the leading robotics and autonomous systems research groups[…]

Euromoney Institutional Investor, the international business information and events group, has signed a binding agreement to sell the assets of its Mining Indaba business to ITE Group for £30.1 million ($39.1 million). Mining Indaba’s annual event, Investing in African Mining Indaba, is one of the world’s largest mining investment conferences, dedicated to the capitalisation and[…]

IFG Metals & Mining has built on its existing relationship with Uzbekistan’s geology and mineral resources committee and signed an agreement giving it exclusive rights to carry out feasibility studies and, if proven successful, exploit seven tungsten deposits in Uzbekistan. The aim of the $300 million long-term investment is to create a cluster for tungsten[…]

Leading drilling products and services provider Boart Longyear believes a condition-based preventive maintenance programme based on frequent visual inspections is the best way to ensure operators get the most out of their drill rig parts. It is aware companies work their drill rigs hard — sometimes 24 hours a day, seven days a week —[…]

Tinka Resources notes that “zinc prices rocked in 2017 and started off great in 2018, but then declined sharply due to some new inventory that showed up on the LME in early 2018.  The decline was subsequently made worse in mid-2018 when trade tensions escalated between the US and China. “What few investors may realise,[…]

Fura Gems Inc has announces updates and results of its bulk sampling program at the Coscuez emerald project in Boyacá, Colombia. Key highlights: Initiation of a bulk sampling program at Coscuez in March 2018, with an aim to mine from the mineralised body in different levels and workings In phase 1 of the sampling, 9,737[…]