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Poor weather delays Galactica-Pegasus drilling

Helium One Global Ltd’s partner has deferred drilling at the Galactica-Pegasus helium project because of saturated ground caused by poor weather. COSTS The company holds a 50-50 joint venture with operator Blue Star Helium in the Las Animas County project, Colorado. Ground conditions and snow melt prevented construction of well sites and access roads, but the […]

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Clogau blasting reveals visible sulphides-gold

Alba Mineral Resources plc reported “large” amounts of visible sulphide mineralisation in blasted rocks, indicating associated gold mineralisation, at its Clogau-St David’s gold mine. BULK SAMPLE The company has also noted visible gold within the blasted ore. Drilling and blasting at level 5 on the Llechfraith target continues round the clock, with a team of […]

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Kavango drills for large scale potential at Nara

Kavango Resources plc has begun a new phase of drilling to explore the potential for a “large-scale underground gold mine” at its Nara project in Matabeleland, southern Zimbabwe. STRUCTURE Equity Drilling Zimbabwe will drill an initial three holes for 1,500m to test for laterally extensive gold mineralisation across “multiple” mineralised shears, or reefs. Nara contains […]

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Deeper drilling in Viura-1B ‘exceeds expectations’

Prospex Energy plc said that the Viura-1B development well had exceeded expectations with good gas shows and several potential reservoirs at the onshore field in northern Spain. INSPIRATIONAL Drilling began in June, reaching the new target total depth of 4,500 metres, approximately 4,100m true vertical depth, on 21 October. The well had encountered the main […]

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Panther begins soil sampling at Dotted Lake

Panther Metals plc has started additional soil geochemistry sampling potentially to accelerate exploration at Dotted Lake on the Schreiber-Hemlo greenstone belt in Ontario, Canada. SNOWFALL Bayside Geoscience Inc’s 1,000 metre survey comprises an extension and infill sampling to the 2021 soil survey grid which yielded “significant nickel, cobalt, copper, gold and platinum group element anomalies”. […]

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Kavango confirms Nara mineralisation system

Kavango Resources plc said that drill assays had confirmed a gold mineralisation system at the Nara exploration project in Matabeleland, southern Zimbabwe. MINING The results, from six initial scoping holes for 1,364.4m, highlighted “anomalous gold zones underneath and directly associated with surface artisanal gold-producing structures” at the site. Five of six holes intersected the quartz […]