Wallbridge Mining has completed rehabilitation of existing underground workings and commenced ramp development and underground diamond drilling as part of a 35,000-metric-ton (mt) bulk sample and underground exploration program...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Polyus, Russia’s largest gold producer, announced in late November that a subsidiary company, SL Gold, has started a 180,000-m diamond drilling campaign at the Sukhoi Log deposit in the northern part of the Bodaybo...

Randgold and Endeavour Form Exploration JV in Côte d’Ivoire Randgold Resources and Endeavour Mining have established a joint venture covering their adjacent Mankono and Sissedougou exploration properties in northern Côte...

Ivanhoe Continues to Add Resources at Kamoa-Kakula Project in DRC Ivanhoe Mines has reported positive results from ongoing exploration drilling at the Kabuli West area of its Kamoa-Kakula copper project near the mining center of...