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West African focused gold explorer and developer, Azumah Resources Ltd, advises that exploration campaigns on multiple fronts have continued to progress the Wa gold project, Ghana towards its immediate goal of updating Mineral Resources in Q3 2018 and delivering an interim Ore Reserves update by end-2018. Managing Director Stephen Stone said “The Wa project has[…]

eCobalt Solutions has updated us on construction progress at its 100% owned Idaho Cobalt Project (ICP), located near the town of Salmon, in the heart of the historic Idaho Cobalt Belt, USA. The ICP remains the sole, near-term environmentally permitted primary cobalt deposit in America. “Construction activities continue at the mine site and we are[…]

Some four years ago, at a nickel conference in Seville, Roskill’s presentation on the use of nickel in batteries asked the question “…if every vehicle sold today were a Tesla, how much nickel would these consume in their batteries?” While one audience member volunteered an estimate of 150,000 t, the true figure – over 5[…]

DDH1 Drilling has been selected by Auroch Minerals to carry out the maiden drilling programmes at the Arden and Bonaventura base and precious metal projects in South Australia. The programmes will comprise up to 5,000m of drilling targeting high-grade base metals and/or gold mineralisation across seven high-priority target areas. Drilling is set to kick off[…]

Danakali Ltd, the potash company focused on the development of the Colluli potash project in Eritrea, has confirmed its intention to seek admission to the Standard Segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (Admission) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Main Market. Admission and trading in the Ordinary[…]

Lucapa Diamond Co Ltd and its partners Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P. (Endiama) and Rosas & Petalas report the recovery of a 114 ct diamond from the Lulo diamond project in Angola. Recovered from alluvial Mining Block 6, this is the 11th +100 ct diamond recovered to date and the third so far in 2018,[…]

Trigon Metals Inc has announced that it has received the environmental approvals required to commence with open pit mining and dewatering for underground exploration activities at the company’s Kombat copper project located in northern Namibia. The company has received notification from the Ministry of Environment and Tourism in Namibia that it has been awarded an[…]

Encanto Potash Corp. has appointed Richard Lively to the position of Chief Operating Officer. “Since joining Encanto, Lively has shown great ingenuity to bring the Muskowekwan potash project forward”, commented CEO Stavros Daskos. He will continue working towards analyzing the potential of lowering Capex, creating efficiency in Opex with a goal of reducing the construction[…]

Peak Resources has entered into an option agreement for the long term lease of the land for the proposed Teesside rare earth refinery and separation plant in the UK. Peak and its partners are developing the Ngualla project in Tanzania into a low cost next generation rare earth project that is strongly aligned to the[…]

Metals X and its joint venture partner Yunnan Tin have commenced commissioning of its new crushing and ore sorting facility at the Renison tin mine in Tasmania, Australia. The ore sorting equipment, provided by TOMRA, is expected to increase annual tin production at Renison by 15-20%, according to Metals X. Underground ore production at the[…]