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Galantas starts new review of Cavanacaw

Galantas Gold Corporation announced it was conducting a new technical review of exploration work, including a proposed core drilling programme, at Cavanacaw mine in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The Canadian company has said its licensed area holds more than three million ounces of gold which is wants to “aggressively explore”. Galantas said that the exploration report […]

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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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Alba Mineral appoints Mark Austin as COO

Alba Mineral Resources plc has appointed its senior geologist Mark Austin as full-time chief operating officer. He will be responsible for the company’s day-to-day mining projects in north Wales, Greenland and Ireland. Mr Austin has management and operational experience in a career spanning four decades across a range of commodities, but with a particular focus […]

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Condor Gold closer to La India mine construction

Condor Gold said it has taken its wholly owned La India gold mine project in Nicaragua to the next stage by starting a ground investigation programme. The exploration company will conduct 20 geotechnical drill holes and 58 test pits on the tailings storage facility (TSF), water retention reservoir and processing plant site. The geotechnical drilling […]

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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 […]

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Scotgold raises £3m to double mine production

Scotgold Resources has raised £3 million from a placing to double production and increase exploration during 2021 at its Cononish Gold and Silver Mine in Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. The company raised the funds before expenses by way of placing 2,727,273 depositary interests of no par value in the company (new ordinary shares) […]