Lahontan Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that it has commenced metallurgical testing in support of its planned Preliminary Economic Assessment of its Santa Fe Mine project located in Nevada's prolific Walker Lane gold and silver mineral belt. Previous test work and mining at Santa Fe established excellent heap leach recoveries for gold and silver . This test work, being conducted by Kappes, Cassiday and Associates of Reno, Nevada, is focused on developing precise economic parameters for processing gold and silver mineralized rock at Santa Fe: Comminution test work - for assessing crushing and abrasion characteristics of mineralization at the Santa Fe, Slab and Calvada deposits in order to determine crushing costs, electrical consumption, etc., Compacted permeability - for d...

Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. a long-standing silver producer in Mexico, reports second quarter production of 616,571 silver equivalent ounces. Production Highlights - Q2 2024 Silver equivalent production increased 5% to 616,571 oz Silver production increased 26% to 292,946 oz Copper production decreased 10% to 1.3 million lbs Gold production was flat at 1,514 oz Mill throughput decreased by 10% to 140,934 tonnes Consolidated Production - Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2024 Q2 2024 Q2 2023 Change YTD 2024 YTD 2023 Change 140,934 157,371 -10% Total Mill Feed 310,529 317,128 -2% 75 53 42% Feed Grade Silver 63 52 21% 0.48 0.44 9% Feed Grade Gold 0.47 0.51 8% 0.51 0.49 4% Feed Grade Copper 0.46 0.48 -4% 87% 87% 0% Recovery Silver 87% 88% -1% 70% 68% 3% Recovery Gold 70% 73% -...

Not for distribution to United States newswire services or for release publication, distribution, or dissemination directly, or indirectly, in whole or in part, in or into the United States. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 15, 2024 -- Alaska Energy Metals Corp. today announced that it has filed a prospectus supplement dated July 15, 2024 to its short form base shelf prospectus dated April 19, 2024 to qualify the distribution of securities underlying 22,255,429 special warrants issued by the Company on July 5, 2024 . The Prospectus Supplement qualifies the distribution of 22,255,429 common shares and 22,255,429 common share purchase warrants comprising the units of the Company issuable on the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants in the Provinces of British Col...

Rio Tinto released its operations review for the second quarter ending June 30, 2024, which included Iron Ore Company of Canada production and sales information. Specifically, Rio Tinto announced that in the second quarter of 2024, IOC had total saleable iron ore production of 3.72 million tonnes, comprised of 2.14 million tonnes of pellets and 1.58 million tonnes of concentrate for sale . Rio Tinto also announced that IOC had total iron ore sales in the second quarter of 2024 of 4.13 million tonnes, comprised of 2.45 million tonnes of pellets and 1.68 million tonnes of CFS. Comparisons to prior quarters and Rio Tinto's commentary on the changes can be found in Rio Tinto's quarterly operational report which is posted on their website. Please note that the IOC sales tonnages are calculated ...

Teck Resources Ltd. today announced the results of its previously announced six separate offers to purchase for cash the outstanding notes of the series listed in the table below and that it has amended the Offers by increasing the Maximum Purchase Amount from US$1.25 billion to approximately US$1.384 billion, an amount sufficient to accept all Notes in full. The Offers were made upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated July 4, 2024 relating to the Notes and the notice of guaranteed delivery attached as Appendix A thereto . Capitalized terms used but not defined in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the Offer to Purchase. The Offers expired at 5:00 p.m. on July 15, 2024 . The Initial Settlement Date will be the seco...

MONTRÉAL, July 15, 2024 /CNW/ - - Champion Iron Ltd. announces a gradual return of its workforce to its Bloom Lake mine following a preventive evacuation and temporary shut down of operations on July 12, 2024 , in response to nearby forest fires. With the forest fires subsiding and following the evacuation pre-alert being lifted for the town of Fermont, located near the Company's Bloom Lake mine, Champion initiated a progressive return of its workforce. While the forest fires remain active north of Bloom Lake, recent events did not affect the Company's and third parties' infrastructure, which should enable a gradual ramp-up of production and rail shipments from Bloom Lake to Sept-Îles. The timing and resumption of full operational activities remain subject to the availability...

Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said: "Our operational performance continues to progress. While there are still significant improvements ahead, we are beginning to see a step-change in production, including from our Queensland bauxite business following the roll-out of the Safe Production System. "We are growing with discipline in the materials the world needs for the energy transition. Construction of the Simandou high grade iron ore project in Guinea is advancing at pace, the ramp up of the Oyu Tolgoi underground is on track and we are set to achieve first production from the Rincon starter plant by the end of the year. "We continue to prioritise the decarbonisation of our business, announcing the installation of carbon free aluminium smelting cells using ELYSIS te...

All conditions have now been satisfied for Rio Tinto's investment to develop the Simandou high-grade iron ore deposit in Guinea, including the completion of necessary Guinean and Chinese regulatory approvals. The transaction is expected to complete during the week of 15 July 2024. Along with the recent approval by the Board of Simfer1, this allows Simfer to invest in and fund its share of co-developed rail and port infrastructure being progressed in partnership with Winning Consortium Simandou2 , Baowu and the Republic of Guinea. More than 600 kilometres of new multi-use trans-Guinean railway together with port facilities will allow the export of up to 120 million tonnes per year of mined iron ore by Simfer and WCS from their respective Simandou mining concessions in the south...

Trading Symbol: Silvercorp Metals Inc. reports production and sales figures for the first quarter ended June 30, 2024 of fiscal 2025 . The Company expects to release its Q1 Fiscal 2025 audited financial results on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, after market close. Q1 Fiscal 2025 Operational Results Record revenue of approximately $72.0 million, an increase of 20% over the same quarter last year Ore mined of 341,927 tonnes, up 13% over Q1 Fiscal 2024; Ore milled of 307,696 tonnes, up 4% over Q1 Fiscal 2024; Inventory stockpile ores amounted to 59,293 tonnes not yet processed due to mill capacity constraints, with additional ore to be added to the stockpile in the coming quarter. If they had been processed, the Company's metal production would have aligned with its Fiscal 2025 annual...

IAMGold Corp. is pleased to announce it plans to release its second quarter 2024 operating and financial results after market hours on Thursday, August 8, 2024. Senior management will host a conference call to discuss the operating performance and financial results on Friday, August 9, 2024, at 8:30 a.m. . Listeners may access the conference call via webcast from the events section of the Company's website at www.iamgold.com , or through the following options: Pre-register via: Chorus Call IAMGOLD Q2 2024 Registration - Upon registering, you will receive a calendar booking by email with dial-in details and unique PIN. This process will bypass the operator and avoid the queue. Toll free : 1 763-8274 International: +1 484-8814 Webcast: https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webca...

Lundin Gold Inc. announced today that Christopher Kololian, Chief Financial Officer, will be departing the Company on August 15, 2024. Chester See, Lundin Gold's Senior Vice President Finance, will assume the role of CFO. View PDF Ron Hochstein, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lundin Gold stated, "On behalf of the Board of Directors and Lundin Gold, I would like to thank Christopher for his executive leadership and contributions since joining our management team. During Christopher's tenure, we successfully executed our debt reduction strategy, including the recent buyout of the stream credit facility, which has positioned Lundin Gold as a debt free gold producer. We have also focused our corporate development activities in parallel with our increased investment into...

Stock Symbol: AEM Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. announced today that it has entered into a transaction with First Nordic Metals Corp. that will result in Agnico Eagle acquiring 27,954,872 common shares of FNM. Agnico Eagle has agreed to exchange amounts that remain due under the asset purchase agreement between certain subsidiaries of Agnico Eagle, certain subsidiaries of FNM and EMX Royalty Corporation dated March 19, 2021, as amended May 1, 2023 for 27,954,872 Common Shares . The Transaction is being effected by way of a subscription agreement between FNM and Agnico Eagle, whereby Agnico Eagle has agreed to subscribe for 27,954,872 Common Shares at a price of $0.2925 per Common Share for total consideration of approximately $8,176,800 in a non-brokered private placemen...

Battery Mineral Resources Corp. is pleased to announce first shipments of copper concentrates related to the Offtake Agreement with Anglo American Sur. S.A. a division of Anglo-American PLC. The Company has supplied 503.74 dry metric tonnes of copper concentrates to Anglo's Chagres smelter in Catemu, Chile. The copper concentrates were produced from copper smelting by-products supplied to BMR by Anglo. The copper concentrates were produced at BMR's Punitaqui copper flotation plant and contained 25.98 percent copper, for approximately 288,500 pounds of copper in concentrate. The Company will continue to increase production results with a goal of producing approximately 1,400 DMT per month in the near term and reaching up to 2,800 DMT of copper concentrate production per month ...