Condor Gold plc announced the start of a 4,000 metre close-spaced infill diamond drilling programme within the open pit at the La India gold project in Nicaragua. The company also hopes to start drilling on the high grade Mestiza open pit in January 2021. Condor Gold chairman and chief executive Mark Child added that mining […]
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United has potential 2.4 billion barrels oil on Walton Morant licence
United Oil & Gas plc said a potential of more than 2.4 billion barrels of oil had been identified in its 100% owned 22,400km2 Walton Morant licence, Jamaica. RESOURCE Gaffney Cline & Associates published the figures in a new independent prospective resources report. United is due to drill the first exploration well offshore Jamaica for […]
GoldStone nears expanded Akrokeri-Homase gold lease
GoldStone Resources Ltd has been recommended an expansion of its mining lease for the Akrokeri-Homase (AKHM) gold project in South West Ghana. The project already included the Homase South Pit and now covers the proposed Homase North and Homase Central pits and the expanded Homase South Pit with the increased mineable resource by 86,900 oz […]
Cuadrilla surrenders its Lancashire shale gas permit
Shale gas company Cuadrilla Bowland Ltd has surrendered its exploration permit for the Bowland Basin in Preston, Lancashire. MORATORIUM The Environment Agency (EA) said today that the company, owned by Australian mining and infrastructure company AJ Lucas, had returned the site to a satisfactory state. The EA added that Cuadrilla had also taken necessary steps […]
Hummingbird to miss gold output targets at Yanfolila
Hummingbird Resources plc said it would not meet its lower end of 2020 production guidance at its Yanfolila gold mine in Mali due to extreme rain and the military coup during August. Total ounces poured year to date as at the end of November were approximately 93,000oz but the company had hoped for 110,000 – 125,000oz. […]
Altona appoints Christian Taylor-Wilkinson as CEO
Altona Energy plc announced that Christian Taylor-Wilkinson has been made Altona’s full-time CEO. Mr Taylor-Wilkinson has represented the board as a non-executive director since 1 February 2019 and interim chief executive since 20 March 2020. The company said that for the past 12 months he has been the main driver of its new rare earths […]