Gold and copper exploration and development company Empire Metals has raised £3-million to advance exploration at its Pitfield project, in Western Australia. This was done by way of an... 

Junior gold explorer Pacgold will raise A$3.2-million in a share placement to institutional and sophisticated investors. The junior will issue 16.7-million shares at a price of 19c each under its... 

Junior Lefroy Exploration has received firm commitments to raise A$6.2-million to fund nickel and gold exploration in Western Australia. The company on Friday said it will place some... 

Copper miner Lubambe Copper Mine (LCM) claims its underground Lubambe mine’s technical services division’s adoption and implementation of an aerial drone-based surveying technology to improve data... 

Following the receipt of forest permits in July, energy minerals explorer and developer Tertiary Minerals has started soil sampling at its Konkola West project in Zambia with about 260 soil samples... 

Canadian precious metals minerFortuna has closed the previously announced acquisition of gold exploration company Chesser Resources. Fortuna acquired 100% of the fully paid ordinary shares of... 

Toronto-listed Ascot Resources has completed a transaction with Seacan Labs to acquire its full-service assay laboratory facility in Stewart, British Columbia. The lab, located 25 km from the... 

Junior Australian Gold and Copper (AGC) has unveiled a major new shareholder in Hong Kong-based Delin Mining Group Corporation. AGC on Thursday revealed a A$10.1-million investment from Delin,... 

Up to 2 000 m of diamond drilling is expected to start soon to test multiple shallow copper/gold targets along, and parallel to, the Shinganda Splay Fault at London-listed Galileo Resources'... 

Norway's second-largest listed oil and gas company, Aker BP, said it would consider applying for licenses to mine minerals from the seabed if parliament approves a plan for such exploration.... 

Junior BBX Minerals will raise A$6-million to fund a rare earth exploration (REE) programme in Brazil. The ASX-listed company has received firm commitments for the placement of more than... 

Junior explorer Australian Rare Earths has reported an 84% increase in the resource at its Koppamurra rare earths project in South Australia, with the resource now standing at 186-million tonnes at... 

Junior Ora Banda Mining has completed the sale of its non-core Lady Ida tenements, in Western Australia. The ASX-listed company earlier this year struck a A$10-million agreement over the... 

Namibian metals mining company Andrada Mining on September 18 confirmed that all drill holes – from assay results for the remaining reverse circulation (RC) exploration drilling results of an... 

Metals company Pensana on September 14 confirmed that the  Sulima West laterite target at its Coola exploration project, in Angola, contains three main types of rare-earth minerals. This was... 

ASX-listed Future Battery Minerals will raise A$7.6-million in a share placement to accelerate exploration at its Kangaroo Hills and Nevada lithium projects. The company on Friday said it had... 

Mineral exploration expenditure in the Northern Territory in the 2022/23 financial year shot up to A$200.1-million, or a 17% increase from the previous year and the highest recorded since 2011/12,... 

The first 10 MW solar plant at Evander gold-mining operation of Pan African Resources is reducing group all-in sustaining costs (AISC) by more than $10/oz with this number set to increase in coming... 

Diamond producer Botswana Diamonds (BOD) states that mining at the dumps of the company’s Marsfontein project is ongoing. In an update on its Marsfontein and Thorny River projects, in South Africa,... 

Clean energy commodities exploration and development company Critical Mineral Resources (CMR) on September 12 provided its first operational update since acquiring its Moroccan subsidiary Atlantic... 

Copper mining company Copper 360, which announced in August that its School of Mining was under development at Concordia operation in the Northern Cape, has launched its first set of courses, aimed... 

ASX-listed NickelSearch has joined forces with lithium miner Allkem to evaluate the lithium potential at the Carlingup nickel sulphide project, in Western Australia. Allkem will review the... 

Australia remained committed to building a relationship with Africa, despite the recent abrupt decision by Austrade to close its office in South Africa in lieu of a desk in Nairobi. Speaking on... 

ASX- and JSE-listed Orion Minerals has secured additional prospecting rights on its existing Okiep Copper project, in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. The Department of Mineral Resources and... 

TSX-V-listed exploration company Fireweed Metals has closed a nonbrokered private placement, raising C$16.8-million that it will use to expand its 2023 drill programme in northern Canada. The... 

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has shown that mineral exploration expenditure in Australia rose to record highs in the June quarter. In original terms, quarter on quarter,... 

Deepening investment uncertainty, exhaustive delays in environmental approvals and the proposed introduction of rigid and costly industrial relations laws are combining to blunt Australia’s ability... 

Junior WA1 Resources will raise A$15-million in an institutional share placement, the company said on Friday. The company has received firm commitments for the placement of three-million new... 

TSX-V-listed Deep-South Resources, which owns copper projects in Namibia and Zambia, has appointed Matthew Starnes as an independent director. Starnes is a lawyer with over 25 years of experience.... 

Junior Black Cat Syndicate will raise A$8.3-million in a share placement to fund exploration work at its Western Australian gold assets. The company on Tuesday said it had received firm... 

TSX-V-listed Deep-South Resources has announced a private placement of 30-million units at a price of C$0.065 apiece, for gross proceeds of up to C$2-million. Each unit will be comprised of one... 

Rio Tinto Exploration Canada has started a first exploration programme for lithium mineralisation on Midland Exploration’s Mythril area and Galinée projects in the Eeyou Itschee James Bay region of...