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Panther appoints Extrakt for Winston testwork

Panther Metals plc has appointed Extrakt Process Solutions LLC for phased metallurgical testwork on the Winston tailings project in Ontario, Canada. ECONOMIC Extrakt, along with TDI Solutions LLC, will use its non-cyanide hydrometallurgical extraction technology for phase I metallurgical characterisation on composite samples of tailings from the resource drilling programme. Panther said that the results […]

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Critical Mineral intercepts gold at Agadir Melloul

Critical Mineral Resources plc posted an “extremely exciting” gold intercept in a shallow setting, and delineated further copper mineralisation, from core drilling at Agadir Melloul, in central Morocco. TARGETS Operations at Zone 2 North, which contains the rhyolite discovery, revealed an intercept of 2.5g/t gold over one metre from 5m. Results also included near surface […]

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Panther appoints drilling contractor for Winston

Panther Metals plc has appointed Platinum Diamond Drilling Inc. to drill the Winston Lake gold-gallium-silver-zinc-copper-cobalt tailings storage facility in Ontario, ahead of a mineral resource estimate. TRANSFORM Independent consultants SRK Exploration Ltd, who were appointed in September, will conduct the MRE. Chief executive officer Darren Hazelwood said that the appointment of the drilling contractor was […]

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CMR’s new rig to drill first borehole in December

Critical Mineral Resources plc is due to begin drilling the first borehole with its new rig during the first half of December at Agadir Melloul, central Morocco. SAVINGS The fully refurbished Discovery HD track-mounted diamond core drilling rig arrived at the site on 20 November and is expected to double drilling capacity. The company said […]

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Alba completes inaugural drilling at Finnsbo

Alba Mineral Resources plc has completed an inaugural drilling programme at its Finnsbo gold-copper-rare earth elements earn-in located in Bergslagen, Uppland, eastern Sweden. EARN-IN The company drilled three holes for a total of 300 metres, focusing on the ‘Pop 2’ site, to determine continuity of high grade mineralisation. Laboratory assays are pending. Alba’s first stage […]

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Tertiary directors buy total 28.6m shares

Tertiary Minerals plc directors have bought, in aggregate, 28,590,962 ordinary shares of 0.01 pence each in the company. HOLDINGS Managing director Richard Belcher purchased 9,433,962 shares, taking his shareholding to 43,640,657, equal to 0.85% of the company’s issued share capital. Executive chairman Patrick Cheetham bought 19,157,000 shares and, together with 2,843,625 held by K E […]