Western Gold Exploration Ltd has started inaugural diamond drilling, initially focused on the Glen Lyon joint venture licence, at the Caledonian gold project in the Scottish Highlands. PROSPECTS The company holds 90% of Glen Lyon and nearby Cononish gold-silver mine owner Acrux Gold holding 10%. Western will drill test three high-grade gold prospects of Creag […]
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Oriole to diamond drill Wapouzé
Oriole Resources plc aims to begin an inaugural diamond drilling programme later this month at its 85%-owned Wapouzé limestone project, in northeast Cameroon. TVRs Drilling for 1,000 metres will determine the depth continuity of “outcropping limestone/marble units”, previously classified as “high-grade carbonate material”. The company said that the material was potentially suitable for use mainly […]
Panther begins drilling Awkward conduit at Obonga
Panther Metals plc has started 400 metres’ diamond drilling to test the company’s geological model at the Awkward conduit target, within the Obonga project in Ontario, Canada. CAUTIOUS The programme will target the interpreted lower portion of a “potentially tube-like magma conduit system, or chonolith” which hosts anomalous levels of nickel, copper and platinum group metals. […]
Strategic posts further strong results at Redmoor
Strategic Minerals plc posted “strong” tungsten, tin and copper mineralisation within a “new tin-dominant zone” for the first time from the 2025 drilling programme at the Redmoor deposit in Kelly Bray, East Cornwall. SILVER The company’s subsidiary Cornwall Resources Ltd received the assays from its diamond core drill campaign of nine boreholes for 5,300 metres. […]
Altona submits Monte Muambe plan for US funds
Altona Rare Earths plc has submitted a project proposal for United States’ funding for its Monte Muambe rare earths-fluorspar-gallium project in Tete Province, northwest Mozambique. DRILLING The company sent a formal proposal to the US Trade and Development Agency after the US Government had “re-engaged” on possible financing for a rare earths prefeasibility study. Altona […]