PTM continues to expand resource at new SA project

Vancouver-based Platinum Group Metals (PTM) on Friday announced an updated ten-million-ounce platinum, palladium and gold (3E) inferred mineral resource estimate for the Waterberg joint venture property, located north of the known northern limb of...

Legal wrangling halts Malawi rare earths exploration project

Resources firm Springstone, a joint venture between Canada’s Gold Canyon Resources and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (Jogmec), has suspended its rare earths exploration project in southern Malawi as a result of legal wrangling...

PTM expands Waterberg discovery beyond known resource

Vancouver-based Platinum Group Metals (PTM) has expanded the discovery area of layered mineralisation beyond the declared inferred resource estimate of 6.6-million ounces for the new Waterberg discovery, located north of the known northern limb...

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Watershed DFS complete by year end - Vital

ASX-listed Vital Metals would complete the definitive feasibility study (DFS) on its flagship Watershed tungsten project, in Queensland, by the end of the year. MD Mark Strizek said in a statement on Friday that the company was targeting a...

Friedland upbeat about SA platinum discovery

Canada’s Ivanplats has discovered a significant platinum deposit near Mokopane in South Africa, reports CEO Robert Friedland, adding that it was considering setting up smelting and refining operations in the country.

India plans nodal agency for rare earths exploration and stockpile

India’s Planning Commission has proposed setting up a national organisation to act as a nodal agency to globally source strategic metals and rare earths, and to step up exploration activities. It was proposed that the organisation, along the...

Vital Metals kicks off BFS for Watershed

Tungsten developer Vital Metals on Wednesday reported that its joint venture partner Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) had made its first earn-in installment of $800 000 for the Watershed tungsten project, in Queensland,...

PGM group continues multiple projects

Platinum miner Platinum Group Metals (Platinum Group) continues its focus on platinum exploration with multiple projects under way in South Africa and Canada, for the remainder this year.

Jogmec to earn stake in Queensland tungsten project

ASX-listed Vital Metals has entered into a farm-in agreement with the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (Jogmec) over its Watershed tungsten project, in Queensland. Jogmec could earn a 30% interest in the project, by spending...

Australia approves Japanese investment in rare-earths miner Lynas

The Foreign Investment Review Board has given the go-ahead for Japan’s Sojitz Corporation and the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (Jogmec) to invest in rare-earths miner Lynas. Lynas executed a binding financing, distribution and...

Lynas inks financing and distribution deal with Japan’s Sojitz

Rare-earths-miner Lynas has executed a binding financing, distribution and availability agreement with Japanese trading giant Sojitz Corporation. Under the agreement, Sojitz was allocated a minimum of 8 500 t/y of rare-earth products for the...