Exploration & development

Pan Asia Metals Ltd has reported that drillhole BTDD001, the first hole drilled at the Bang I Tum lithium prospect in Thailand, has been completed.

Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd has reported that it has commenced a 2000 m drill programme at the Mouse Mountain project located in the Cariboo Mining District of south-central British Columbia.

Rockfire Resources plc has announced that the company's 100% owned Plateau Gold Deposit, in Queensland, Australia, has surpassed a JORC (2012) mineral resource of 200 000 oz of gold.

Orea Mining Corp. has reported on the 2020 drilling programme at the Maripa gold project located in French Guiana.

Altus Strategies Plc has announced the completion of the stage-1 reverse circulation drilling programme and associated passive seismic surveys at its Lakanfla gold project located in western Mali.

Baru Gold Corp has announced the management engineering team has mobilised to the project site on Sangihe Island, Indonesia.

Altus Strategies Plc has announced the results of preliminary metallurgical testwork undertaken on composite samples of fresh rock collected from core drilling at the FT Prospect of its Tabakorole gold project located in southern Mali.

Altus Strategies Plc has announced further encouraging results from the recently completed 10 308 m reverse circulation (RC) drilling programme at its 100% owned Diba gold project located in western Mali.

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.

IAMGOLD Corp. has announced assay results from its delineation diamond drilling programme at the Gosselin Zone discovery, located approximately 1.5 km northeast of the Côté Gold Project.

Greatland Gold plc has announced that early works activities have commenced at the Havieron Project in Western Australia.

Alien Metals Ltd has announced that the maiden drilling programme at the company's Hancock Iron Ore project, part of its Hamersley Iron Ore Project in Western Australia, is underway.