Exploration & development - 25 January 2021

OceanaGold Corp. has announced several additional significant intersections of high-grade gold and silver mineralisation at the company’s Wharekirauponga prospect in New Zealand.

NQ Minerals Plc has been granted permission to start over 2 km of surface trenching at the company’s Beaconsfield Gold Mine in northern Tasmania, Australia, to identify near surface gold deposits to add to the Beaconsfield’s estimated 483 000 oz mineral resources.

Condor Gold has announced that it has completed a ground investigation programme of 23 geotechnical drill holes and 58 test pits on the tailings storage facility, water retention/attenuation reservoir and processing plant site at La India Project, Nicaragua.

Altus Strategies Plc has announced that the Egyptian Mineral Resource Authority has confirmed that the company's 100% owned subsidiary, Akh Gold Ltd, will be awarded a number of gold exploration licences located in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.