Vortex Energy Corp. is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Phase 1 exploration program on its Fire Eye Uranium Property , located in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Phase 1 program included ground prospecting, geological mapping, sampling activities, and scintillometer radiometric surveys. This initial phase was designed to follow up on targets identified by the 2022 airborne geophysical survey, verify historical mineralization, and assess new potential areas of interest on the Property. Notably, the Property hosts two historical uranium showings, as recorded in the Saskatchewan Mineral Deposit Index, which were prospected during the current work program. Program Highlights The Property was prospected broadly, with surface gamma radioactivity r...

Fortune Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has retained Worley Canada Services Ltd. to conduct additional engineering and lead the preparation of an updated Feasibility Study for the NICO Cobalt-Gold-Bismuth-Copper Project in Canada . The NICO Project is an advanced Critical Minerals development comprised of a planned mine and concentrator in the Northwest Territories and a hydrometallurgical recovery plant in Lamont County, Alberta where concentrates from the mine, and other feed sources, will be processed to value-added products for the energy transition and new technologies. Worley has also been retained to assist with permitting for the Hydrometallurgical Facility, which is planned to be constructed at a brownfield site held under a purchase option arrangement fr...

Highlights: Commissioning is complete at Santa Cruz Phase 1 Graphite Mine in Bahia, Brazil, and first one tonne product has been placed in the bulk bag. Commercial production will ramp-up in October with first product shipments expected by end of October. Phase 1 construction and commissioning was completed as Santa Cruz team approaches 286,488 manhours and 678 days without a loss-time accident. As-builts and a bottleneck/optimization engineering analysis are underway to explore the potential to upgrade the Phase 1 plant throughput. South Star is preparing to ship a variety of large-scale industrial samples for final qualification in Brazil and the USA. Director Eric Allison has decided to not run for reelection and will retire from the Board of Directors. [wp=1843]South Star Battery Metal...

Power Metals Corp. is pleased to announce high-grade cesium and lithium results from the first round of exploration drillhole assays received from the summer 2024 drill program at its 100% owned Case Lake Project in northeastern Ontario. Exploration drilling at West Joe has continued to intercept shallow high-grade mineralization up to 22.58% Cs2O hosted in pollucite, along with spodumene mineralization in the first three drillholes of 29 completed at the CLP. Drill hole PWM-24-207 hosts individual grades up to 22.58% Cs2O, along with a pollucite rich zone of 3 meters @ 15.86% Cs2O . Due to these spectacular numbers the Company has planned for an additional 2,500 meters of drilling once remaining assays have been received. These grades continue to highlight the world-class po...

Zodiac Gold Inc. , a West-African gold exploration company, is pleased to announce that a proposed adjustment to the newly granted Bong West license has been granted by Liberia's Ministry of Mines and Energy. The Company requested the change after a data compilation and review revealed a historical inferred mineral resource and iron ore potential along strike to the west of the Bong Mine, owned by China Union Mining Co. The Company announced the identification of the historical inferred mineral resource and results of exploration by the United States Geological Survey and then West Peak Iron Limited , in a press release on September 25, 2024. The adjustment to the license increases the historical inferred mineral resources at Bong West from the previously announced 8 million ...

MEG Energy Corp. ) has received notice of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer made by TRC Capital Investment Corporation to purchase up to 4,000,000 MEG shares, or approximately 1.50% of MEG's outstanding shares, at a price of C$24.25 per share. The offering price represents a discount of 4.57% to the closing price of MEG shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange on September 30, 2024, the last trading day before the mini-tender offer was commenced, and a 12.42% discount to the closing price of the MEG shares on the TSX on October 4, 2024. MEG does not endorse TRC Capital's unsolicited offer, has no association with TRC Capital or its offer, and does not recommend or endorse this unsolicited mini-tender offer. Shareholders are cautioned that TRC Capital's offer has been made at a p...

Trailbreaker Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce the delineation of a donut-shaped chargeability high feature from an induced polarization survey completed at the Swan zone. The Swan Zone is a gold - copper - silver porphyry target within Trailbreaker's Atsutla Gold Project, northwestern British Columbia . The IP chargeability high is coincident with a 900 m by 700 m Au-Ag ± Cu - molybdenum soil and rock geochemical anomaly within a zone of advanced argillic alteration of a granodiorite stock. In combination with a historic IP survey to the northwest, the 2024 IP survey defines a donut-shaped chargeability high feature, with external dimensions of approximately 2.1 km by 1.4 km . The thickness of the chargeability high is approximately 200 m to 500 m. The chargeability sign...

Western Exploration Inc. is pleased to announce initial assay results from its 2024 core drilling program in the Jarbidge rhyolite north-east of the Gravel Creek resource area at the Company's wholly-owned Aura gold-silver project, located in Elko County, Nevada . This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241007038489/en/ Figure 1. Jarbidge Discovery Section Cross Section, showing interpreted continuity of high-grade values along sub parallel structural zones, based on oriented core measurements in holes WG456 and WG457. The vein zones and subsidiary splays have over 20.0 g/t AuEq grades on a dip length of potentially over 200 meters . Highlights of 2024 Drill Program Four oriented core holes totaling 2,789 me...

TSX.V: COCO Coast Copper Corp. is pleased to report high-grade silver assays from rock and soil samples collected from a 2 square kilometer area on its recently acquired 15 km2 Sweeney property located approximately 135 kilometer southwest of the town of Houston in the Central Interior of British Columbia . Sweeney is road accessible, centrally located in the Huckleberry Mine Camp and is 7 km north-northwest of the past producing Huckleberry Mine, 3 km west of Huckleberry Mines Ltd.'s Whiting Creek deposit and 8 km southeast of the Berg Deposit owned by Surge Copper Corp.1. The Property includes the past-producing, epithermal vein-hosted, high-grade silver-lead-zinc-gold Emerald Mine that ceased small scale production in 1968. The last recorded exploration work ...

Adyton Resources Corp. is pleased to announce it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement offering, pursuant to which it has issued 53,000,000 common shares of the Company at a price of C$0.13 per Share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$6,890,000 or approximately US$5,000,000 . As previously announced, the Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Financing for exploration activities primarily focused on Feni Island, working capital and general corporate purposes. Tim Crossley, Chief Executive Officer of Adyton, commented "This was a pivotal financing for Adyton, Being able to complete the financing at a 15.6% premium to the 20 day VWAP demonstrated huge confidence by the incoming strategic investor in Adyton's team and projects. The company is ...

Peruvian Metals Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company has completed the purchase of the remaining 50% interest in the Palta Dorada Gold-Silver-Copper property located in Northern Peru, resulting in 100% ownership . Rio Silver Inc. will retain a 3% NSR on mineral sales from the property capped at $2 million US. The consolidation of Palta Dorada provides the Company with a strategic advantage due to the unique high-grade gold-silver mineralization that occurs as both oxides and sulphides. Peruvian Metals' 80% owned Aquila Norte flotation plant is located 120 km northwest of the Property and can process the sulphides creating a highly marketable Cu-Au-Ag concentrate. For the oxide material, the Company will seek to build a Carbon-in-Pulp gold ore processing...

Kamoa-Kakula milled a record 3.3 million tonnes, producing a record 116,313 tonnes of copper in concentrate during Q3, with the Phase 3 concentrator in ramp-up Phase 3 concentrator ramp-up approaching steady-state throughput and recovery as at quarter end Kamoa-Kakula's 2024 production guidance range adjusted to 425,000 - 450,000 tonnes of copper Kipushi produced 17,817 tonnes of zinc in concentrate during ramp-up in Q3 2024 Kipushi's 2024 production guidance range lowered to 50,000 - 70,000 tonnes of zinc Kipushi concentrator now achieving recoveries in excess of 90%, as ramp-up continues to commercial production Ivanhoe Mines to issue Q3 2024 financial results and host conference call for investors on October 30 Ivanhoe Mines Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland and President Marna Cloete...

Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. or "Eagle Plains" is pleased to announce that partner Refined Energy Corp has commenced 2024 work on Eagle Plains' 100% owned Dufferin Project. Refined holds the exclusive option to a acquire 75% interest in the Project, which is made up of the North and West Dufferin properties, located approximately 18km from Cameco's Centennial Deposit where historic drill hole VR-031W3 intersected 8.78% U308 over 33.9m . The planned work includes an airborne MobileMT geophysical survey at Dufferin North and interpretation and modeling of historical geophysical data at Dufferin West and North. The Dufferin North interpretation and modeling will include 3D inversions. In addition to the above work, Refined and Eagle Plains have acquired a further 2,837 hectares a...