April 4, 2023 Barrick to earn into Midland’s Patris gold project in Quebec Barrick must make cash payments of C$1.02m and exploration work totalling C$16.57m over eight years, to earn up to a 75% stake in Patris.
April 3, 2023 FPX Nickel and Japan agree to explore globe for ‘disruptive’ awaruite JOGMEC is to cover as much as $483,000 annually for two years in the search for deposits of the nickel-iron alloy at the Klow project in British Columbia.
April 3, 2023 Arizona Sonoran receives latest permit at Cactus ahead of Q4 prefeasibility The company is currently advancing the Cactus project to a pre-feasibility study.
March 31, 2023 Generation Mining’s updated Marathon feasibility shows strong economics The company recently finalized an offtake agreement with Glencore.
March 29, 2023 Montage raises $11 million for drilling at Koné gold project in Côte d’Ivoire Montage says it hopes this project will become the centre of a new gold district.
March 29, 2023 Ero Copper adds 18% more gold reserves to Xavantina, extends mine life to 2028 The Xavantina operations are expected to achieve over 60,000 oz. of gold production beginning in 2024.
March 29, 2023 Botswana Diamonds begins mining in South Africa Marsfontein is serving as a proof-of-concept trial project, which will help improve operations at the miner's flagship Thorny River project.
March 28, 2023 KORE wins court ruling in California, can proceed with Long Valley gold project drilling The company has identified opportunities to expand the shallow oxide mineralization in all directions.
March 28, 2023 Standard Lithium claims North America’s ‘highest grade brine’ from sampling in East Texas Samples from the Smackover Formation all returned grades exceeding the average reported lithium analyses from other North American brine projects.
March 28, 2023 Researchers closer to understanding how orogenic gold belts are formed Chinese scientists are proposing the idea that lithospheric crust-mantle decoupling could be related to the formation of orogenic gold deposits.
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