Exploration & development

Sitka Gold Corp. has completed the first diamond drill hole of its 30 000 m drilling programme planned for this year at its RC Gold Project in Yukon.

Firebird Metals Ltd has been granted Mining Lease 52/1086 for the Oakover Manganese Project, located 85 km east of Newman.

Oriole Resources PLC has provided an update on its Bibemi orogenic gold project where a Phase 5 drilling programme has recently been completed.

Prospect Resources Ltd has confirmed the granting of two LargeScale Mining Licences.

Great Southern Copper plc has reported further exceptional assay results from Phase I drilling at the Mostaza Mine, Cerro Negro.

Fortuna Mining Corp. provides an update on its exploration programmes at the Séguéla Mine in Côte d’Ivoire.

Akobo Minerals AB has provided an operational update for February 2025.

Capricorn Metals Ltd has entered into a binding agreement with Serena Minerals Limited to acquire the prospective Kings Find Project tenement.

Cora Gold Ltd has noted the Government of the Republic of Mali has announced a partial lifting of the suspension relating to the allocation of mining titles.

Troilus Gold Corp. has executed a mandate letter with a syndicate of leading global financial institutions to arrange a structured project debt financing package of up to US$700 million.

Cornish Lithium has been granted planning permission to build the UK’s first commercial lithium production facility in Cornwall.

Anglo American Platinum announces that its Mogalakwena mine in South Africa has achieved an IRMA 50 level of performance.

Condor Energies Inc. has been awarded a second critical minerals mining license (the Kolkuduk License) by the Government Ministry responsible for mining in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Lundin Mining has entered into exclusivity to negotiate an earn-in agreement with Talon Metals Corporation.

Rio Tinto will invest US$1.8 billion to develop the Brockman Syncline 1 mine project.