Exploration & development

Altus Strategies Plc has recently announced high grade aircore drilling results at the company’s Tabakorole gold project in southern Mali.

IronRidge Resources has reported high-grade drilling results from the ongoing second phase drilling programme at the Ebilassokro and Ehuasso targets, both within the Zaranou Gold Project area.

Pensana Rare Earths Plc has reported the final assay results from the last 86 holes of the 8000 m drill programme completed at the Longonjo NdPr Project in Angola.

Castillo Copper Ltd has recently announced that its entire issued share capital been admitted to the standard segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the main market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange plc under the TIDM ‘CCZ’.

Ariana Resources plc has recently announced a Joint Ore Reserves Committee Resource update for the Salinbas Project in Turkey.

Rio Tinto has approved an additional investment of almost US$200 million to progress the next stage of the development of the lithium-borate Jadar project in Serbia.

Longreach Mineral Exploration has recently announced that it has become a successful recipient in the Round 4 of the Queensland Government Collaborative Exploration Initiative (CEI) grants.

Canada Nickel Co. Inc. has recently announced that it has created a wholly-owned subsidiary, NetZero Metals, with the goal of utilising existing technologies to produce zero-carbon nickel, cobalt and iron products.

Fosterville South Exploration has intersected wide intervals of high-grade gold in multiple drill holes during the initial phase of core drilling at its Golden Mountain Project in Victoria, Australia.

Kumba has recently announced the approval of its Kapstevel South project at its Kolomela mine, South Africa, by both the company’s and Anglo American’s boards.

South32 Ltd and Trilogy Metals Inc., partners in Ambler Metals LLC, have reported the signing of the Record of Decision by the US Bureau of Land Management for the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project.

Erdene’s positive bankable feasibility study demonstrates a high-grade, shallow opencast mine with strong NPV, IRR and low initial capital investment.

Nokia has announced that Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology will deploy a Nokia 5G SA industrial-grade private wireless network at its test mine in Tampere, Finland.

IAMGOLD Corporation, with joint venture partner Sumitomo Metal Mining, has announced the decision to proceed with the construction of the Côté Gold Project.

Following the completion of a £4 million second phase, the Coal Authority’s Lynemouth mine water treatment scheme in Northumberland can now treat the equivalent of 2400 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water every year.