Exploration & development

Alien Metals Ltd has provided an update regarding the company's exclusivity agreement over the Elizabeth Hills Silver Tailings Project at Elizabeth Hill, Western Australia.

Lucapa Diamond has entered into a binding asset sale agreement to acquire the Merlin Diamond Project from Merlin Operations.

Far East Antimony Ltd has announced the acquisition of a 100% interest in the Solonechenskoye antimony property, located in the Zabaikalsky Krai region of Far Eastern Russia.

Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd has provided an update on the initial results of the ongoing metallurgical test work programme for the Phalaborwa Project being undertaken by ANSTO Minerals in Australia.

IronRidge Resources Ltd has reported additional broad and high-grade lithium pegmatite drill intersections at new targets adjacent to the Ewoyaa Lithium Project in Ghana, West Africa.

Altus Strategies Plc has announced the commencement of a reverse circulation and air core drilling programme at the company's 100% owned Diba gold project in western Mali.

Alien Metals Ltd has advised that it has commenced the second phase of drilling on the Hancock Licence, part of the Hamersley Direct Shipping Iron Ore High Grade Project, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

BHP has advised Encounter Resources of its intention to start negotiating a farm-in and joint venture agreement covering the Elliott Copper Project.

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.