Exploration & development

Brazil Minerals, Inc. completes a drilling campaign in Minas Gerais Brazil, and reports the discovery of gold in 35/35 holes.

Monarques Gold Corporation starts a new diamond drilling programme on its wholly-owned McKenzie Break gold property in Quebec.

The Giant Ledge/Raven is another strategic land position for New Jersey Mining Company within the Murray Gold Belt.

Bluejay Mining Plc has provided an operational update for its Dundas Ilmenite project (Dundas) in Greenland.

The drilling programme is targeting mineralisation underneath the current open pit that has the potential to extend the life of mine.

Northern Minerals Limited’s latest assay results from reverse circulation drilling highlight new high-grade heavy rare earth discoveries at the Iceman and Dazzler prospects.

RNC Minerals discovers a new high-grade gold discovery at its Beta Hunt Mine in Australia.

Leading Edge Materials is undertaking various R&D activities to support the design and installation of a Battery Graphite Demonstration Plant at the Woxna mine site in Sweden.

High-grade intersections at Eleonore North and South continue to define and extend mineralisation.

Rockwell Automation will collaborate in the transformation of the mine into a technologically advanced ‘super cave’ mine that uses a block-caving extraction process.

Wärtsilä has secured replacement operations of De Beers’ diamond mining vessel, the Debmar Pacific.

Asia Pacific is set to lead a turnaround in the global mining sector in terms of number of projects and CAPEX value, says GlobalData.

The company has completed and submitted the IFS on the Sangihe project to the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and, once approved, construction of the mining facilities and infrastructure can begin.

The contract has a 30 month term, with an option of a 12 month extension, to supply all underground mining services for the Zone 55 and Bagassi South underground mines.

The drilling results from the Eleonore South continue to validate the spatial continuity of the mineralisation identified to date and, importantly, demonstrate that high grades are recurrent along strike and dip.