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FCM pans gold from Dead Otter trend

First Class Metals plc (FCM) has observed and panned gold from grab samples on the Dead Otter trend at North Hemlo in northwest Ontario, Canada. CONFIDENCE The company added that a number of gold flecks were seen in the ‘tail’ in the panning dish. “This is significant in not only proving the presence of gold […]

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Red Rock completes transfer of Boulon licence

Red Rock Resources plc has completed transfer to the company of the Boulon gold licence in southwest Burkina Faso. BOULON In January 2022, the company acquired two exploration projects of Boulon and Bilbale in the prolific Boromo and Banfora greenstone belts. Boulon lies on the centre of a mapped channel containing some of the “highest […]

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Red Rock cleared for lithium mining and sales from Zimbabwe

Red Rock Resources plc has received approval to start production and sales of lithium from its first asset in Zimbabwe. ENVIRONMENT The move follows receipt of an environmental certificate after the company submitted the environmental impact assessment for Tin Hill and held stakeholder meetings. The property lies 29km northwest of Bikita which is one of […]

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Oriole to define more targets and extend Bibemi MRE

Oriole Resources plc has progressed work to define further targets and extend the mineral resource estimate (MRE) at its 90%-owned Bibemi orogenic gold project in north Cameroon. BIBEMI The 177km2 project holds an identified shear-hosted gold mineralisation at four main prospects of Bakassi Zone 1, Bakassi Zone 2, Lawa West and Lawa East. December 2022’s inaugural JORC MRE showed 305,000 […]

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Parkmead’s finance director Ryan Stroulger leaves

The Parkmead Group plc finance director Ryan Stroulger’s employment with the company has ended by mutual agreement. Finance controller Donald Wilson CA has assumed full responsibility for the group’s finance function. Mr Donald trained and qualified with PwC LLP and has some 13 years’ experience in finance in the energy sector. He latterly spent four […]