West Cumbria Mining (WCM) is assessing local contractors and businesses to support its plan for a high quality metallurgical coal, near Whitehaven in West Cumbria. The company aims to employ 510 full-time skilled and semi-skilled employees who will constitute up to 80% of the workforce within 20 miles of the mine. A total of 170 […]
Metals & Minerals
Power Metal exercises earn-in to Silver Peak
Power Metal Resources has exercised its earn-in option for a 30% interest in the Silver Peak project in southern British Columbia, Canada. PORTFOLIO The project comprises mineral claims over a system of intrusion-related, silver-lead-zinc-copper veins, part of the former working Eureka-Victoria silver mine. Power Metal will commit CA$225,000 to ground exploration. A technical review underway […]
Tungsten West takes market edge with aggregates
Tungsten West has sufficient aggregates to offset tin-tungsten production costs, and has a new resource statement of 332Mt with a projection in excess of a billion at Hemerdon mine in Devon. STELLAR The aggregates find was a surprise that could give the company a “huge advantage” over local competitors because, as a base metals business, […]
Banks reviews refusal for Highthorn surface coal mine
Banks Mining said it will consider its next steps following the Government’s decision to reject its application for a surface mine in Northumberland. On Tuesday (8 September), Housing, Communities and Local Government Minister, Robert Jenrick, said that the proposed open cast mine near Druridge Bay, Highthorn “would have an adverse impact on landscape character of […]
South Crofty drill shows high grade tin-copper
Cornish Metals has announced high-grade tin and copper results from its first batch of the South Crofty 2020 diamond drill programme in the village of Pool, Cornwall. The Canadian miner reported that it had intersected multiple lode structures with the results showing high grade metal mineralisation. The company has also intersected three additional lode structures […]
Power Metal completes Silver Peak due diligence
Power Metal Resources has completed its due diligence at the exploration programme in the Silver Peak project in British Columbia, Canada. A total of 11 channel samples were taken from the Victoria vein faces exposed in the cliffs and open stopes located vertically above the Victoria adit. Samples have been submitted to the accredited laboratory, […]