Exploration Roundup
Newcrest Signs on for 6 New Gold Exploration Joint Ventures
Australia’s largest gold mining company, Newcrest Mining, has entered into six gold exploration joint ventures in Australia’s Northern Territory and Western Australia, one with ABM Resources and five with Encounter Resources. The ABM-Newcrest joint venture is based on...
read moreMajor Exploration Under Way at ATAC’s Rackla Property in Yukon
ATAC Resources has announced plans for three 2018 exploration projects on its 1,700-km2 Rackla gold property in east-central Yukon, Canada. Included are the Orion project, where Barrick Gold is working on an earn-in option agreement, and the Osiris and Rau projects,...
read moreMinerals Exploration Spending Turns Up in 2017
Global spending on the search for nonferrous metals deposits rose to an estimated $8.4 billion in 2017, up from $7.3 billion in 2016, according to a report released by S&P Global Market Intelligence at the 2018 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada...
read moreOZ Minerals Joins Woomera in South Australia Joint Venture
OZ Minerals has entered into an earn-in agreement with Woomera Exploration to explore for magmatic nickel and copper sulphides in the Eastern Musgrave province of far-northern South Australia. The new joint venture targets nickel-copper sulphide systems similar to...
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Exploration Briefs – June 2018
Kirkland Lake Gold has reported high-grade drill results at depth from drilling at the Robbin’s Hill area in a structure parallel to the Fosterville trend, which hosts the company’s Fosterville mine in Victoria state, Australia....
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Denison Mines has discovered high-grade uranium mineralization 600 m and 1 km northeast of the Gryphon uranium deposit on its 63.3% owned Wheeler River project in northern Saskatchewan. The company’s winter drilling program...
Read MoreExploration Briefs – May 2018
North American Palladium has reported encouraging results from the winter exploration program at its Sunday Lake project 25 km northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Highlights include an intercept of 18.65 m of 4.05 g/mt combined...
Read MoreExploration Briefs – April 2018
Northisle Copper and Gold has signed a joint-venture agreement with Freeport- McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada in relation to Northisle’s Pemberton Hills property on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Under the terms of the...
Read MoreExploration Briefs – April 2018
Iamgold plans to drill approximately 50,000 meters of diamond and reverse circulation holes at its Saramacca deposit in Suriname in 2018, with goals of improving resource classification, declaring reserves and advancing mine...
Read MoreExploration Briefs – March 2018
Orion Minerals has announced initial mineral resources for its Prieska zinc-copper project in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. As of year-end 2017, Orion had completed approximately 42,000 m of drilling on the project’s...
Read MoreExploration Briefs – March 2018
Kootenay Silver discovered a new area of multi-gram gold and silver mineralization with high lead on surface at its 100% owned La Cigarra silver project in Chihuahua, Mexico. Gold mineralization has been traced by prospecting,...
Read MoreExploration Briefs – March 2018
Iamgold’s 2017 drilling program at the Diakha deposit on its wholly owned Siribaya project in western Mali has better delineated high-grade structures within the known resource and confirmed extensions of the mineralization to...
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