Finance & business

Avesoro Resources completes its acquisition of the Youga gold mine and Balogo gold mine from Avesoro Jersey Ltd.

Avocet Mining plc enters an agreement to sell all of its Burkina Faso assets.

Acacia Mining sells non-core royalty over the Houndé mine in Burkina Faso to Sandstorm Gold for US$45 million.

Kingsrose Mining is to resume trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) today (18 December 2017) having successfully restructured its finances.

NextView Capital enters an agreement with Bacanora Minerals Ltd to acquire a 19.89% equity interest in the company.

Banyan Gold Corp. completes its first year earn-in exploration expenditure commitment on the Aurex and McQuesten properties.

Volt Resources Ltd is to proceed with US$40 million in structured debt financing.

First Cobalt Corp enters an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by Canaccord Genuity Corp for a CAN$25 million bought deal private placement financing.

Trilogy Metals appoints William Hensley to the company’s Board of Directors.

Australian Mines Ltd acquires 100% of the Sconi Cobalt-Nickel-Scandium Project.

Weatherly enters into a binding agreement to purchase 100% of the Kitumba copper project in Zambia from Intrepid Mines.

Bea Mountain Mining Corp. enters into further heavy mining equipment agreements with Mapa Insaatve Ticaret A.S. (Mapa).

Pershing Gold Corp. signs US$6.8 million underwriting agreement.

BBI Group announces that its Railway Agreement 2017 has formally become an Act of Parliament of Western Australia.

Silver Viper Minerals Corp. appoints Alex Peter Tsakumis as Vice President of Corporate Development.