Finance & business

Kinross Gold Corp has entered into a sale agreement with Asante Gold Corp to sell its 90% interest in the Chirano mine in Ghana.

Bear Creek Mining Corp. has completed its acquisition of the Mercedes gold-silver mine, located in Sonora, Mexico, from Equinox Gold Corp.

The Government of Canada has announced Budget 2022, ‘A Plan to Grow Our Economy and Make Life More Affordable’, that includes its first critical minerals strategy.

Anglo American plc has released its production report for the first quarter ended 31 March 2022.

BHP has released operational review for the nine months ended 31 March 2022.

Metso Outotec has been awarded a major order for the supply of key minerals processing technologies to a copper and gold mine project in South-East Asia.

Aura Minerals has entered into a binding SID with Big River Gold, as part of the process through which a subsidiary of Aura will acquire 100% of the shares in the capital of Big River.

Epiroc has won a large order from Kamoa Copper SA for mining equipment that will be used at a large underground mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Cornish Lithium has announced that GeoCubed has successfully commissioned and delivered the DLE pilot plant for its geothermal waters test facility at United Downs.

Northern Star Resources Ltd has entered into binding agreements to sell its wholly owned Paulsens Gold Operation and Western Tanami Gold Project to Black Cat Syndicate Ltd.

Antler Gold has entered into a binding agreement to acquire 90% of the Onkoshi Gold project in Namibia from an arm’s length vendor.

Epiroc has won a large order for equipment from the Canadian Malartic Partnership, which will be used in a major new underground gold mine currently under construction.

Barrick has signed a partnership agreement with the federal government of Pakistan and the provincial government of Balochistan for the Reko Diq Project.

Anglo American has announced the value of rough diamond sales for De Beers’ third sales cycle of 2022.

Develop has been awarded the mining contract at Bellevue Gold Mine in Western Australia.