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Global Atomic Corp reports an exploration update from its flagship Dasa project in the Republic of Niger, West Africa. Highlights: Drilling at DASA along strike and down dip has been successful in confirming Global Atomic’s geologic interpretation of the deposit and has identified five distinct areas of new mineralization High grade mineralization was intersected at[…]

Ucore Rare Metals comments on the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which was signed into law by the President of the USA this week. The new legislation prohibits the US Department of Defense from acquiring rare earth magnets from China. “This is a turning-point in the re-establishment of an[…]

Gold Fields reports that South Deep has had a number of operational challenges since it acquired the mine in 2006. The key challenge has been the difficulty in transitioning the mine from one run with a conventional mining mindset and practices to mining with a modern, bulk, mechanised mining approach. “South Deep is a complex[…]

EuroChem is now one of only three companies worldwide producing all three key fertiliser products of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. In mining terms it mines phosphate at the Kovdor open pit mine on the Kola peninsula in Russia and at the Phosphorit mining operation in Kingisepp, also in Russia; while there is a development project[…]

Sprott Resource Holdings Inc (SRHI) in its financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 has reported the latest on its 70% held Chilean producing copper mine Minera Tres Valles (MTV) that was acquired in October 2017. MTV’s main asset is the Tres Valles mining complex, in the Province of Choapa,[…]

New Century Resources has started hydraulic mining at the Century zinc operation in Queensland, Australia, almost three years since its previous owner downed tools at the open pit. The commencement of operations comes both on time and on budget, according to New Century. The company’s Restart Feasibility Study estimated a project able to produce 264,000t/y[…]

Maya Gold & Silver has received the results of the latest metallurgical tests on fresh rock from Boumadine in Morocco. The most recent metallurgical test done at the SGS Laboratory in Lakefield, Ontario on a Boumadine fresh rock sample, and the best so far, provided the following results: Calculated head grade:  0.43% Pb, 1.40% Zn,[…]

Fluor Corporation announced today it has received the full notice to proceed for the engineering, procurement and construction management of Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project in the Moquegua region in the south of Peru. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter of 2018. “As one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper[…]

The ramp up to production at Fortuna Silver Mines’ Lindero gold project in Salta, Argentina, is well underway with equipment arriving on site ahead of first output in the September quarter of next year. In a project update, the company said initial on-site delivery of Komatsu mine equipment started in mid-July with the arrival of[…]

Argosy Minerals has hit its first major milestone at the Rincon lithium project in Salta province, Argentina, producing its first “battery grade” carbonate. Its 500 t/y stage one plant completed production of some 30 kg of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) product that, Argosy says, is representative of its initial specification for delivery to end-users. The[…]