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Power Metal targets major finds and financial independence

Power Metal Resources announced its future strategy was to make one or more major metal discoveries and work towards financial independence. ASSETS The company, which focuses on cobalt, copper, gold, lithium, nickel and PGMs, recently raised £1 million taking its total assets to £3.04 million. Power Metal is involved in five main projects and two […]

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Scotgold starts slab pours and expands tunnels

Scotgold Resources Ltd has started slab pours ready to place equipment following resumption of blasting at the high grade Cononish gold and silver mine in Argyll, Scotland. WASTE ORE Operations had stopped due to the pandemic, but the Australian company is now focused on expanding tunnels to mine through rock which has no gold in […]

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Tungsten West to be one of the biggest producers outside China

Tungsten West Ltd will spend £30-40 million on reopening Drakelands / Hemerdon mine in Devon to become one of the biggest producers of tungsten concentrate outside China. The company is currently progressing with feasibility studies on tin-tungsten in the mine, also known as Hemerdon Mine, which is said to have the fourth largest reserves of […]

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Cornish Lithium attracts further shareholder funding

Cornish Lithium (CLi) has raised more than £826,000 from shareholders, allowing it to continue exploration for lithium at United Downs mines in central Cornwall. The company is mining for lithium in geothermal waters and in hard rock, and funds raised will add to the successful drilling programmes that concluded earlier this year. CLi plans further phases […]

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Banks refused plans to extend Bradley coal mine

Banks Group’s application to extend Bradley West Mine in County Durham has been refused by the local council because of its impact on the environment. The company wanted to extend the open cast mine to extract an extra 90,000 tonnes of coal. Banks, which promised to restore the land by August 2021, said the extension […]