The first gold pour from the Fruta del Norte mine that Vancouver-based Lundin Mining is building in south-east Ecuador is only months away, with the mine forecast to deliver its first gold next quarter. Overall construction at the Fruta del Norte site …
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TSX-V-listed NRG Metals has filed its preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Hombre Muerto North (HMN) lithium project, which company president Adrian Hobkirk says “firmly establishes” the project as having “significant potential”.
The HMN proj…
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An international team of subsurface explorers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland uncovered the previously undescribed network of volcanoes buried deep within the Cooper-Eromanga Basins of centr…
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Global gold major Barrick Gold has appointed Loreto Silva to its board as an independent director.
An accomplished legal professional, academic and consultant, Silva is Chile’s former Minister of Public Works and the current chairperson of the board o…
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TSX-V-listed Minera Alamos on Thursday announced that the Mexico federal agency, Semarnat, had approved the environmental impact statement for the Santana gold project.
The permit, together with the change of land use notification received in June, no…
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The government of Canada has announced a C$1.5-million investment in a project that will test and validate a better, more efficient approach to fragmenting underground rock deposits, improving mining and tunnelling practices, while reducing blast-induc…
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The Public Authority for Mining in Oman has indicated that it will grant London-listed Savannah Resources’ subsidiary two mining licences for its high-grade copper developments – Mahab 4 and Maqail South, near the Port of Sohar. The licences are expect…
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The University of Birmingham, in the UK, has been awarded €4-million to set up a pilot facility to reclaim rare earth metals from scrap as part of a European Union- (EU-) funded Horizon 2020 project.
The facility will focus on recycling magnets made o…
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Full commercial production from newly opened Nokeng expected later this month; And, Platinum 3D printing to be first project of new Platinum Valley SEZ
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak has jointed gold major Barrick president and CEO Mark Bristow for a visit to the site of the Cortez mine, which forms part of the joint venture with top gold miner Newmont Goldcorp.
Sisolak also joined Bristow for a meeti…
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