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Alba exercises Finnsbo rare earth option

Alba Mineral Resources plc has exercised the earn-in option to acquire the Finnsbo rare earth project in eastern Bergslagen in Uppland, eastern Sweden. INTEREST The completed transaction involves payment to the project owners of £7,500 in cash and £7,500 in 30,512,612 Alba shares. Following admission the company will have 10,941,721,949 ordinary shares in issue, with […]

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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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Alba acquires Tanzania gold options

Alba Mineral Resources plc has acquired an option to earn into a portfolio of gold licences, including “near-term” production opportunities, in northern Tanzania. VALUE The move follows the company’s signing an option last week for the Finnsbo rare earth project in eastern Sweden. Alba said that the Tanzanian licences were in the same district as […]

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Alba expands into Sweden with rare earth option

Alba MIneral Resources plc has signed an option for the Finnsbo rare earth project in the historic magnetite mining district of eastern Bergslagen in Uppland, eastern Sweden. VALUE The company said that most workings on Finnsbo were magnetite and copper artisanal pits from the Victorian era, the “most significant” being the Bredasen containing a cluster […]