CABORCA, Mexico, Mar 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Mexus Gold US (otcqb:MXSG) (Read full newsRead More

CABORCA, Mexico, Mar 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Mexus Gold US (otcqb:MXSG) (Read full newsRead More

BALTIMORE, March 14, Mar 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars On March 11, 2019, Barrick Gold Corporation GOLD(ABX)...Read full newsRead More

BALTIMORE, March 14, Mar 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars On March 11, 2019, Barrick Gold Corporation GOLD(ABX)...Read full newsRead More

BALTIMORE, March 14, Mar 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars On March 11, 2019, Barrick Gold Corporation GOLD(ABX)...Read full newsRead More

BALTIMORE, March 14, Mar 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars On March 11, 2019, Barrick Gold Corporation GOLD(ABX)...Read full newsRead More

BALTIMORE, March 14, Mar 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars On March 11, 2019, Barrick Gold Corporation GOLD(ABX)...Read full newsRead More

"Another royalty added today on silver from the @AscendantResEl Mochitomine. Looks like a win/win deal hopefully for both companies.https://t.co/kHm8p1w1Jq"Read full newsRead More

Ferro-Alloy Resources Group, which is producing vanadium in Kazakhstan, listed on the London stock market on Thursday, marking the first junior flotation in the sector this year.Vanadium has traditionally been used for strengthening steel, but its price has risen 450 percent in three years on expectations it can also be used for large-scale power storage, which could have a major role in a more el...Read More

The European Commission is eyeing opportunities within the EU's minerals and mining sector, and has put forward, in its Strategic Action Plan (SAP) on batteries, a comprehensive set of targeted measures to make Europe a global leader in sustainable battery production and use.The SAP focuses on including raw materials research and innovation, financing and investment, standardization, regulation, a...Read More

Africa-focused Firestone Diamonds (LON:FDI) has put plans to extend the life of its 75%-owned Liqhobong mine in Lesotho on the back burner, saying that current market conditions don't support the project.The company, which reported 2019 interim results on Thursday, managed to limit its losses in the six months to December 31, 2018, despite a global price slump for smaller, lower-value diamonds.Fi...Read More

Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC; NYSE: GSS) has increased its overall reserves by 6%, net of mining depletion. It offset a loss in reserves at its Prestea gold mine by adding reserves at its Wassa gold mine, both located in Ghana.In total the company has 19.4 million proven and probable tonnes grading 2.86 grams gold for 1.79 million oz. gold across its Wassa and Prestea gold mines.Its biggest los...Read More

Greenstone Gold Mines - a 50:50 joint venture of Centerra Gold and Premier Gold Mines - has received approval from the provincial environment ministry for development of the Hardrock gold mine 2 km south of Geraldton, Ontario. Federal approval was received late last year.An open pit and 27,000 t/d mineral processing plant are planned. The pre-production capex will be near C$1.25 billion to create...Read More

K92 Mining (TSXV: KNT) has intersected 175 metres of 0.28 gram gold per tonne and 0.22% copper from 259 metres downhole at its Blue Lake porphyry prospect, 4 km southwest of its Kora deposit at the Kainantu gold mine in Papua New Guinea.The hole ended in mineralization.The company discovered the prospect in 2017 after a surface mapping and sampling program. It completed a soil grid at 50-metre spa...Read More

South African mining companies are challenging parts of a government charter aimed at redistributing the country's mineral wealth, saying it will deter new investment in the industry.The charter is in breach of a court order issued last April, which ruled that previous versions of the regulations didn't require miners to top up black-shareholding levels if they previously met a minimum 26 percent...Read More

Chemicals group Johnson Matthey has secured a site in Poland to produce ultra-high energy battery materials and signed a 10-year supply deal with Canada's Nemaska Lithium as it seeks to grow its exposure to the electric vehicle market.Plant construction should begin this year at Konin, about 200 kilometres west of Warsaw, and it would have the potential to produce up to 100,000 tonnes per year, Jo...Read More

Toronto-based Kirkland Lake Gold has announced the retirement of board chairman Eric Sprott, effective after the annual meeting on May 7, 2019. He has been chairman since 2015. The vacancy will be filled by Jeff Parr as interim chairman until the AGM.Ronald Bougie is joining Nemaska Lithium in Quebec City as VP engineering and construction. His appointment and certain other changes at the company...Read More

In what looks to be a brow-raising move, Wesfarmers has made a bid to acquire a rare-earth producer for $1.5 billion, a foray into the clean energy space where rare-earths will play a vital role in the rollout of electric vehicles and other clean energy products.Following the announcement on Tuesday, shares in Lynas Corporation (ASX: LYC) rose 40% to close at $2.10 with the takeover bid valuing Ly...Read More

Vancouver-based NexGen Energy has been busy with feasibility stage drilling at its 100% owned Rook I property in the Athabasca Basin.In the A2 sub-zone, the emphasis is on converting indicated to measured resources. Nineteen closely spaced drill holes (9.0 to 16.7 metres) successfully intersected the sub-zone. In the shear only, composite and off-scale radioactivity results were routinely measured...Read More

Russian nickel and palladium producer Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) said it will invest up to 90 billion roubles ($1.4 billion) over four years in two major projects in Russia.The projects - expansion and reconstruction of the Talnakh ore concentrator and development of the South Cluster mine - come as Nornickel aims to ramp up nickel output and tap an expected boom in demand from electric vehicle ma...Read More