White Metal finds new gold zone at Tower Stock project
White Metal Resources (TSXV: WHM) says it has discovered a new gold zone at its Tower Stock gold project, 45 km from Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario’s Shebandowan greenstone belt….
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Vale buys Mitsui’s stake in Moatize amid plan to exit coal
Vale (NYSE: VALE) has inked a deal to acquire Mitsui & Co’s stake in the Moatize metallurgical and thermal coal mine and port project in Mozambique, as the Brazilian miner…
Glencore shareholders revolt over CEO’s pay
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis, one of Glencore’s (LSE: GLEN) top shareholders, is pushing investors to vote against the company’s plans to pay its new chief executive Gary Nagle up to…
Giyani updates PEA for Botswana manganese project
Giyani Metals Corp. (TSXV: EMM) has updated a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) based on a larger inferred resource estimate for the company’s flagship Kgwakgwe Hill (K.Hill) manganese project in southeastern…
NextSource partners with processors in Tesla supply chain to build battery anode plant
NextSource Materials (TSX: NEXT; US-OTC: NSRCF) — which is developing its large flake graphite project in Madagascar and is backed by Sir Mick Davis’ Vision Blue Resources — is teaming…
US markets mixed, March 29-April 1
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.24% to finish the week at 33,153.21 and the S&P 500 fell 0.77% to 3,913.10. Spot gold dropped US$3 per oz., or 0.17%, to US$1,730.30…
Congo launches state-owned cobalt miner
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has officially begun operations at Entreprise Générale du Cobalt (EGC), a state-owned company with monopoly rights to the purchase and sale of the…
Ivanhoe working towards accelerating Phase 3 expansion at Kamoa-Kakula copper mine
The Canadian miner wants to accelerate the Phase 3 concentrator expansion from 7.6 million tonnes per annum to 11.4 million tonnes per annum.
Ghana terminates Resolute Mining’s Bibiani lease
Resolute Mining (LSE: RSG; ASX: RSG) is seeking legal advice after its mining lease for the Bibiani gold mine in Ghana was terminated and the company was told to cease…
Exploration boom in West Africa challenged by lack of services — report
The West African mining industry has seen significant fundraising activity since October last year, driven by higher metal prices and the need to meet a growing global demand for metals,…
Lucapa Diamond boosts Lulo mine resource by 35%
Australia’s Lucapa Diamond (ASX: LOM) has reported a 35% increase in the resource carats at its Lulo diamond mine in Angola, where the company found a 113-carat white diamond in January. Despite…
Roxgold extends mineralisation at Seguela in Cote d’Ivoire
Since its discovery in September 2020, the Koula deposit at Roxgold’s (TSX: ROXG; US-OTC: ROGFF) Seguela gold project in Cote d’Ivoire, 240 km northwest of Yamoussoukro, has “blown all our expectations…