Cornish joint venture company GeoCubed has chosen GeoLith SAS for its direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology to use in the £4 million pilot plant due to be commissioned by the end of March 2022 in Cornwall. The pilot plant will process 140 metres3 of deep geothermal water which Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) said it had obtained […]
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Kavango attempts pioneering drill core recovery from Norilsk-type keels, KSZ
Kavango Resources plc could soon pioneer the retrieval of drill core from the bottom of the ‘keels’ of the Karoo-age gabbros in the Kalahari Suture Zone (KSZ) in Botswana. The company today began proof of concept drilling for core samples from Target A2 in the northern (Hukunstsi) section. Kavango hopes that assay and other analysis […]
Fatality at Hummingbird’s Yanfolila gold mine
Hummingbird Resources plc’s said that one of its sub-contractors died in late June 2021 while operating at Yanfolila gold mine in southern Mali. SUPPORT The company added that its emergency protocols were immediately put into action via its onsite medical teams. “The fatality was an isolated incident, however the company stood down the contractor pending […]
Alba targets substantial increase in ilmenite at Thule
Alba Mineral Resources plc has started its Phase 2 drilling programme to increase “substantially” the mineral resource at its Thule Black Sands (TBS) ilmenite project in northern Greenland. The company’s subsidiary White Eagle Resources Ltd, which owns and operates the project, plans to drill 125 holes for up to 1,000 metres, and conduct a digital elevation […]
Alba reveals notable target shaping up at Clogau gold mine
Alba Mineral Resources plc said that the completion of Phase 2 surface drilling had revealed a potentially significant target at the Clogau-St David’s gold mine in North Wales. The junior miner drilled ten holes for 1,475.6 metres with all holes to date intersecting the Main Lode extension. Hole JW008 intercepted the best developed example of […]
Caerus starts to build Cu-Au mineral resource at Troulli
Caerus Mineral Resources has started Phase II drilling programme aimed to build a mineral resource at the copper-gold project in the Troulli licence, Cyprus. The company plans to expand the coverage over the high-grade epithermal gold zone and target the underlying copper-gold sulphide mineralisation. TWO-STEP PROGRAMME Caerus is drilling two volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) bodies to […]