Archives: Mineral exploration

JV partners Minotaur Exploration and OZ Minerals are expanding exploration activity across their Eloise joint venture southeast of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. This has the potential to be a major copper/gold find. Key points: • 7,600 m of drilling almost completed at ‘Jericho’, south of the Eloise copper mine • Drilling scope expanded to encompass similarly[…]

Copper Investing News reports “Zijin Mining has emerged as the winning bidder for a partnership in the RTB Bor copper complex in Serbia.The Serbian Minister for Mines And Energy Aleksander Antic said that Zijin’s bid had been for $1.26 billion in investment in the neglected complex, and another $200 million to settle RTB Bor’s debts[…]

Wood has been contracted by ASX-listed Vimy Resources to carry out the engineering scoping study for the Angularli uranium project in the Northern Territory of Australia. Work has already commenced on the study, with completion expected by the end of the year, Vimy said. Angulari is located in the King River-Wellington Range tenement group and[…]

Azarga Metals Corp reports positive findings of an independently prepared PEA for the development of its wholly-owned Unkur copper-silver project in the Zabaikalsky administrative region of eastern Russia. The PEA is based on the current Inferred Mineral Resource estimate for Unkur of 62 Mt at 0.53% Cu and 38.6g/t Ag, containing 328,600 t of copper[…]

The award of this Mining Licence paves way for Strandline to progress its strategy to develop a multi-project mineral sands business in Tanzania. Highlights:: Fungoni is ideally positioned to capitalise on the growing mineral sands market and the emerging supply deficit Binding sales contracts in place covering 90% of forecast revenue for the life of[…]

Both Birimian Ltd, lithium in Mali (see map), and Battery Minerals, a second graphite mine in Mozambique, are hoping to bring their respective projects online in 2020. Speaking on the third and final day of the three day Paydirt 2018 Africa Down Under mining conference in Perth, ASX-listed and Perth-based Birimian CEO, Greg Walker, said[…]

The team behind MEGATEM is inducted in the Exploration category of the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame. Ken Witherly (BHP) and John Gingrich (Noranda) were users of the equipment that recognized the potential of the system and drove the development of the system from the demand perspective.  This demand was not just in their[…]

Minerals Council CEO, Roger Baxter today presented at the Africa Down Under conference in Perth, Australia. He noted: “South Africa’s mining potential is huge. Even in the absence of a Greenfields exploration boom in South Africa, mining investment could almost double in the next four years if the country was to return to the top[…]

The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS – an FAA-designated UAS Test Site) have announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent with the European Union’s largest Polish coking (coal) producing company, JSW SA. The Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) commercial drone industry in Poland is currently booming, similar to the one being seen in the[…]

China will remain a key driver of global commodity demand but India- the world’s fastest growing economy – and Indonesia’s emergence as Asia’s new rising tiger – would put added pressure on minerals supply, says Australia’s specialist resources private equity manager, EMR Capital. Speaking on the second day of the three day Paydirt 2018 Africa[…]