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Alba renews Limerick zinc-lead licence until 2022

Alba Mineral Resources plc has renewed its exploration licence PL3824 for base metals in Limerick, western Ireland. TERMS The company now has until 26 May 2022 to determine the next phase of exploration which might include drilling key zinc targets. Alba must spend €15,732 by 26 May 2021 and a further €50,000 by 26 May […]

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Alba Mineral raises £1.2m through shares placing

Alba Mineral Resources plc has raised £1.2 million before expenses through the issue of 320,000,000 new ordinary shares at a price of 0.375 pence per ordinary share. Share warrants will also be issued to each subscriber in the placing, with one warrant for every two shares subscribed for, for a total of 160,000,000 warrants.

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Alba secures Dolgellau gold belt exploration rights

Alba Mineral Resources plc announced it has been awarded a six-year exploration licence, renewable by up to four years, to the Gwynfynydd gold mine in Gwynedd, North Wales. The mine is the second largest producer of gold, after Clogau-St David’s gold mine, in the UK’s history. The award means that Alba has now secured the […]

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Alba starts surface drilling at Clogau gold mine

Alba Mineral Resources plc said it had started surface drilling after completing its underground drilling programme and bulk sampling at Clogau-St David’s Gold Mine in Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. The metals and critical minerals mining company reported that underground drilling programme had involved seven drill holes for a total of 559.5 metres and which […]

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Work at Clogau gold mine unaffected by Covid

Alba Mineral Resources said its underground drilling programme at Clogau-St David’s Gold Mine would be unaffected by recent Covid-19 restrictions imposed in Wales. Wales will introduce a two-week ‘firebreak’ from 23 October to 9 November 2020 to help stop the pandemic. However the mining and hydrocarbon company is on schedule to complete the first phase […]