Archives: Mineral exploration

Developed by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and brought to market by Chrysos Corporation, photon gold analysis is a faster, safer and more environmentally-friendly alternative to the conventional fire assay technique for gold analysis. Fully automated, it dramatically reduces the turnaround time on assays from days to minutes, providing critical data to miners on gold[…]

The following is based on an article in yesterday’s Financial Review Digital Edition. While investors scout for potential winners among lithium and nickel plays, an ASX-listed rare earths miner is on the cusp of cashing into the looming growth in the electric vehicles market. Eight years after it was first considered as a greenfield exploration[…]

Tianqi Lithium will buy Nutrien’s 24% stake in SQM, held in series A shares, for $4 billion, taking its share in the Chilean lithium, potash, iodine and speciality chemicals producer to 26% following the purchase of 2% from a US-based asset manager in 2016. Tianqi had an option on another 7% of shares, secured at[…]

Bluejay Mining provides an update on activities at the Dundas ilmenite project in Greenland and outlines its plans for 2018 as it continues to advance the project towards the commencement of mining.  Dundas fieldwork is due to commence in June 2018 and is expected to continue until October 2018. Resource expansion at Dundas: Iterlak is[…]

Lucapa Diamond Co and the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho (GoL) have reported the recent recovery of a 25 ct yellow gem diamond from the Mothae kimberlite mine in Lesotho (Lucapa 70%; GoL 30%). Gem-quality 25 ct yellow Special among diamond recoveries from first two days of trial processing following bulk sampling plant modifications[…]

Scotgold Resources has raised the final tranche of development funding for its gold mine in Scotland. As noted in the March Interim Financial Report and earlier in its Rights Issue announcement in November 2017, the company sought a final round of development funding after the successful Planning Permission determination which was announced on 27 February[…]

Gold Resource Corp has been granted a positive Record of Decision (ROD) on the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Isabella Pearl open pit heap leach gold project located in Mineral County, Nevada, USA. This final permit, along with approval from the company’s Board of Directors to move the project into production, mark a major milestone[…]

NioCorp’s Elk Creek, Nebraska project has now emerged as one of the few greenfield projects in the US that plans to produce multiple critical minerals for which the America is currently 100% reliant on foreign nations such as China and Russia. The picture shows Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (right) touring the Elk Creek project. The[…]

David Byers, Interim Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, has been reading the World Gold Council’s new essay collection, Gold 2048, we reported yesterday. He notes “new uses for gold including in antibiotics, smartphones and electric vehicles will bring new opportunities over the next three decades for gold companies in Australia, the world’s[…]

Jangada Mines, a natural resources company developing what it describes as South America’s largest and most advanced PGM project, has announced a substantial increase of the JORC compliant mineral resources at its Pedra Branca PGM project in north-eastern Brazil, which enhances the already positive economics of the Project. The independently assessed, substantial JORC resource increases[…]