Exploration & development

Galane Gold has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Summit Mine and the infrastructure constituting the Banner Mill in New Mexico.

Australian Potash Ltd has advised that ongoing work at the company’s 100% owned Laverton Downs Project has returned compelling targets with Kambalda-style large nickel sulfide potential.

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California, USA.

Musk Metals Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire the Pakeagama Lithium claims, located in the ‘Electric Avenue’ pegmatite field of northwestern Ontario.

The directors of Thor Mining Plc have provided an update to the mineral resource estimate of its 100% owned critical minerals tungsten asset, the Molyhil Project, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Rockfire Resources plc has announced that a preliminary scoping study has returned positive results for a small-scale, opencast mining operation at the Plateau Gold Deposit in North Queensland, Australia.

Foran Mining Corp. has intersected another 22 m of copper-rich mineralisation at McIlvenna Bay, Canada.

U.S. Gold Corp. has announced plans for the commencement of core drill testing of a previously untested, covered Carlin-type target on its Maggie Creek project, Nevada.

First Mining Gold Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement with Big Ridge Gold Corp. to advance its Hope Brook Gold project in Newfoundland.

Barrick Gold Corporation has noted a recent statement released by Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape announcing an imminent agreement to reopen Porgera mine.

Australian lithium developer Core Lithium Ltd has announced that the Federal Government has awarded major project status to its wholly owned Finniss Lithium project.

Thor Explorations has signed an agreement with Barrick Gold Corp. regarding the Central Houndé project in south-western Burkina Faso.

Eurobattery Minerals AB has announced that FinnCobalt Oy has hired a Tier-1 process consulting company AFRY to prepare a mineral resource estimate for the Hautalampi project in Finland.

IronRidge Resources Ltd has commenced drilling at the Kineta North gold license in north-eastern Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.

Akobo Minerals has announced an encouraging maiden mineral resource estimate at Segele.