Exploration & development

USA Rare Earth has fully funded its commitment and exercised its option to acquire an 80% interest in the Round Top Project in Hudspeth County, Texas.

Hummingbird Resources plc has been granted the mining licences for the Kouroussa Gold Project by the Government of Guinea.

Endeavour Silver Corp. has intersected high grade gold-silver mineralisation in its 2021 exploration drill programme to expand the Melladito and Belen orebodies at the Bolañitos Mine in Guanajuato State, Mexico.

Trilogy Metals Inc. has announced that Ambler Metals LLC, the joint venture operating company equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Ltd, has finalised the 2021 exploration field programme at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects located in Northwestern Alaska.

U.S. Gold Corp. has received confirmation from the Bureau of Land Management that it accepted additional bonding for a further 50 acres of disturbance and has announced an update for its potential 2021 summer exploration programme at its Keystone project, Nevada, USA.

BHP has achieved first ore at its South Flank mine in the central Pilbara, Western Australia.

Altus Strategies Plc has announced the granting of three new distinct exploration projects, as well as exploration licences adjacent to existing projects, in the Kingdom of Morocco.

Horizon Minerals has executed an agreement with Aurenne Group Holdings to acquire the Western Australian Bulong South, Glandore, and Cowarna gold projects.

Canada Nickel Company Inc. has announced preliminary results from the start of its drill programme at the MacDiarmid Nickel Project.

Rockfire Resources plc has announced results from 3D processing of helicopter magnetic data at the company's 100%-owned Copper Dome porphyry project in North Queensland, Australia.

Ariana Resources plc has announced recent resource drilling results obtained from the Banu area of the Kiziltepe Mine.

Newmont Corp. has announced the completion of its acquisition of GT Gold Corp., which includes the Tatogga project.

Western Copper and Gold Corp. has announced a strategic investment by Rio Tinto Canada in its copper-gold Casino Project.

Caerus Mineral Resources has provided an update on ongoing exploration, asset evaluation and corporate development activities.

Goldplat plc has announced an operational update for the 9 months ended 31 March 2021.