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First Development to drop non-core Wallal licences

First Development Resources plc has applied to surrender two of its three exploration licences, located within the Wallal gold-copper project in the Paterson Province of Western Australia. ANOMALIES The decision to relinquish E45/5853 and E45/5880 followed a technical review which identified the licences as non-core to the company’s exploration strategy. First Development will focus its cash and resources on the Selta […]

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Botswana identifies copper targets with AI analysis

Botswana Minerals plc has identified 36 copper anomalies “grouped within six exploration corridors”, which contain clusters of anomalies, on two of its licences in Ngamiland, northwest Botswana. DATABASE The company said that the anomalies, identified using artificial intelligence, shared the geological characteristics of “several major operating and historical deposits”. Botswana continues to evaluate the remaining […]

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Power Metal completes East Hawkrock drilling

Power Metal Resources plc’s joint venture has completed its initial diamond drilling programme at the East Hawkrock property in the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, Canada. MODEL The nine-hole programme for a total of 2,120.4 metres aimed to test the “multiple” geophysical and radiometric anomalies across the Small Lake and Joint Lake target areas. The company said that drilling had […]

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Conroy finds more gold anomalies at Skullmartin

Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc has discovered five additional gold anomalies from sampling along the Skullmartin gold trend in the Longford-Down massif in Ireland. EXTENSION The assay results are from 265 of the 468 soil samples collected across Skullmartin on a 1km2 or 500m2 bases over the past two years. Thirty of the regional samples had […]

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Power Metal stakes additional claims at Garfield

Power Metal Resources plc has staked eight further claims after identifying new copper anomalies at the Garfield copper-gold property in the Walker Lane mineral belt in Nevada, USA. ANOMALIES The findings are from analysis of recent satellite imagery of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) and European Space Agency Sentinel-2 datasets. The two “strong” […]