JV article: Vista Gold cuts Mt Todd capex
Earlier this year Vista Gold (TSX: VGZ; NYSE-AM: VGZ) signed five confidentiality agreements over the space of six weeks on its Mt Todd open-pit gold project in Australia’s Northern Territory….
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Lithium price surge forecast to be short
Lithium prices surged this week on concerns about supply disruptions in China, but analysts are warning the rally will be short-lived. A halt in production at Chinese lepidolite mines, which…
Viridis doubles REE tonnage in Brazil
Viridis Mining and Minerals (ASX: VMM) has unveiled an initial reserve estimate of more than 200 million tonnes at its Colossus ionic adsorbed clay project in Brazil, underpinning a potential high-grade rare…
Harmony Gold’s MAC Copper takeover OK’d
Harmony Gold’s (JSE: HAR; NYSE: HMY) acquisition of MAC Copper (NYSE: MTAL; ASX: MAC) has cleared the final regulatory hurdle after Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board gave its approval of…
GoviEx lists on ASX, rebrands as Atomic Eagle
GoviEx Uranium (TSXV: GXU) has entered the Australian capital market by combining with ASX-listed shell company Tombador Iron (ASX: TI1) in a proposed reverse takeover that would see GoviEx end…
Dubai firm offers $10M lifeline to Lucapa Diamond
Lucapa Diamond (ASX: LOM), which holds the Lulo alluvial mine in Angola and the Merlin project in Australia, has struck a rescue deal with a Dubai-based group that could pull…
American Rare Earths produces first Wyoming oxides
Ore from American Rare Earths’ (ASX: ARR; US-OTC: ARRNF) Halleck Creek project in southeast Wyoming has for the first time been made into light and heavy rare earth oxide concentrates…
Gold Fields’ $2.4B Gold Road takeover vote nears
South Africa’s Gold Fields (NYSE, JSE: GFI) is closing in on its A$3.7 billion ($2.4 billion) takeover of Australia’s Gold Road Resources (ASX: GOR), with shareholders set to vote on…
ASX seeks answers after Greatland cuts gold output
Greatland Resources (ASX: GGP) is facing questions from the Australian Securities Exchange over why it slashed production and cost targets just weeks after its debut on the bourse. The Western…
Richest lithium mystery solved
Australian researchers have upended decades of geological theory and could redefine how and where lithium is explored globally to feed demand for electric vehicle batteries. The breakthrough, led by Curtin…
Rio Tinto OKs $180M expansion at Amrun bauxite mine
Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE: RIO) has approved a $180-million investment in the Norman Creek bauxite project on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula, aiming to unlock nearly half of the 978 million…
Site visit: PLS now runs world’s biggest hard-rock lithium resource
Australia’s PLS (ASX: PLS), formerly Pilbara Minerals, has increased the resource at its Pilgangoora lithium operation in Western Australia by nearly a quarter through gains in tonnage and grade, overtaking…