Zgounder Mine Expansion 83% Complete Aya Gold & Silver Inc. is pleased to announce that the third drawdown, totaling $25 million, has been completed on its $100 million project financing facility for the expansion of the Zgounder Silver Mine in the Kingdom of Morocco. The Facility is jointly provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and by the Climate Investment Funds through its Clean Technology Fund . All figures are in US dollars unless otherwise noted. Expansion Highlights Overall construction approximately 83% complete and on budget The Zgounder expansion is fully funded and on track for commissioning in Q2-2024 Third facility drawdown of $25 million completed in February 2024 with $85 million disbursed to date Tailings and water storage facilities...

Midnight Sun Mining is pleased to announce the Company has signed an earn-in agreement with KoBold Metals Company, through their respective Zambian subsidiaries, to explore the Dumbwa Target, located on the Company's Solwezi Project. KoBold Metals Company is a US-based, privately held, battery metal exploration and mining company that combines geoscience, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to search for the critical minerals needed for the clean energy transition. KoBold is backed by t...

PPX Mining Corp. further to the press release dated January 8, 2024, PPX is pleased to announce that on February 17, 2024 it filed at SEDAR+ the NI 43-101 technical report denominated "Updated Mineral Resource Estimate of Callanquitas Gold-Silver Deposit and Potential of Igor Project". The technical study is available at www.sedarplus.ca. About PPX Mining Corp: PPX Mining Corp. is a Canadian-based mining company with assets in northern Peru. Igor, the Company's 100%-owned flagship gold and silver project, is located in the prolific Northern Peru gold belt in eastern La Libertad Department. John Thomas Chief Executive Officer 82 Richmond Street East Toronto, Ontario M5C 1P1 Canada 416-361-0737 Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider acce...

Standard Uranium Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed a definitive option agreement , dated February 16, 2024, with Atco Mining Inc. , an arms-length company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange . Pursuant to the Option Agreement, the Optionee has been granted the option to earn a 75% interest over three years in the 3,061-hectare Atlantic Project located in the eastern Athabasca Basin. The Option Agreement gives effect to the term sheet previously signed with Atco Mining Inc., dated February 9, 2024. The Option is exercisable by the Optionee completing cash payments, arranging for the issuance of Optionee shares to the Company and incurring exploration expenditures on the Project, summarized in Table 1. Table 1. Summary of Definiti...

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Northwest Copper Corp. is pleased to announce that, subject to regulatory approval, it has retained the services of David Jan Consulting to provide investor relations services at an hourly rate on a month-to-month basis effective immediately. The Consultant is at arm's length to NorthWest, has no relationship with the Company except under this contract, and no current interest in the Company. David Jan, CPA, CA, has over 30 years of progressively senior financial management experience with numerous natural resource public companies. For the past 18 years, he has been either an in-house or external investor relations professional helping public mining companies, including Western Coal, Nevsun Resources, Entrée Resources, Ridgeline Minerals, Element 29 Resources, and Vior Inc.,...

Vancouver, BC / February 20, 2024 / EGR Exploration Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company's application for a permit to conduct drilling at the Detour West Property has been approved by the Ontario Ministry of Mines. This permit allows EGR to drill for the potential westward extensions of the Detour-Fenelon Gold Trend onto EGR's Detour West Property from the adjacent Detour Lake Mine Property owned by Agnico Eagle. EGR received approval for one hundred and twenty three Reverse Circulation drill holes planned to test approximately 30 kilometres of interpreted structural corridors. Drill holes are planned along 16 fences of approximately 400 metre-spaced holes with 1 to 2.5 kilometres between fences. Interpretation of all the geological and magnetic geophysical data iden...

F3 Uranium Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent with Canadian GoldCamps Corp. wherein Canadian GoldCamps will enter into a definitive option agreement with F3's newly incorporated wholly-owned subsidiary F4 Uranium Corp. . The staged option will allow Canadian Goldcamps to earn up to a 70% interest in the Murphy Lake Property in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. The Property is located in the north-eastern corner of the Athabasca Basin, 30 km northwest of Orano's McLean Lake deposits, 5 km south of ISOEnergy's Hurricane Uranium Deposit and covers approximately 6.1 square kilometers of land. Dev Randhawa, CEO of F3 and incoming Executive Chairman of F4 commented: "With this transaction, we have immediately demonstr...

Strathmore Plus Uranium is pleased to update the results of the on-going geophysical study completed by the University of Wyoming at the Agate project. The UW's research will give Strathmore specific targets for their 200-hole drilling program this spring and provide opportunities to locate roll fronts, the "noses" of which are anticipated to host thicker intervals and higher grades of mineralization. Agate is envisaged as an ISR project located in the Shirley Basin Uranium District in Wyoming. Sam Hartmann, P. Geo., Strathmore's technical advisor commented: "Strathmore is successfully demonstrating the viability of using the unique approach of ground geophysics in a roll front environment, with resistivity emerging as a tool to potentially map alteration systems associ...

E3 Lithium Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on the selection process for Direct Lithium Extraction technology and the design of the downstream refining flowsheet for its first commercial facility. In 2023, E3 Lithium committed to operating a field pilot plant to test DLE technologies at continuous scale to demonstrate the technical capability of various technologies to extract lithium efficiently from E3 Lithium's brines. At the pilot, the Company operated its proprietary DLE technology and a third-party technology which produced successful results. In parallel, to ensure the Company had evaluated the available options to select the combination of processes that produce the best technical and economic results ...

TroyMinerals Inc. is pleased to announce results from the final two drill holes completed in Fall of 2023 at the Lac Jacques rare earth element property. The 100% owned Lac Jacques property is located approximately 250km north of Montreal Quebec, Canada and approximately 40km northeast of the town of St. Anne du Lac . Figure 1: Project location map. Highlights Hole LJ-23-03 intersected 2526.1 ppm TREO over 2.90 metres from 53.0m -55.9m including 3627.9 ppm TREO over 0.9m. Hole LJ-23-04 intersected 1495.9 ppm TREO over 5.40m from 54.6m - 60.0m, including 3274.7 ppm TREO over 1.40m and 1615.3 ppm TREO over 4.40m from 72.6m -77.0m including 3107.9 ppm TREO over 1.00 metres. Drilling encountered multiple samples of anomalous REE concentrations near surface. Results extended the mineralization ...

Critical Elements Lithium Corp. is pleased to announce that it has been granted three industrial occupancy leases and tailings management facility leases, which are essential for the deployment of its unique Rose Lithium-Tantalum project in Eeyou Istchee, Quebec. These leases are granted by the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts under the Act respecting lands in the domain of the State for a period of one year starting February 1st, 2024 and automatically renewed every year, subject to the respective terms and conditions of the leases granted. With the obtaining of the mining lease in September 2023 and the granting of these three leases, Critical Elements continues to move forward with the realization of the Rose Project by securing the occupancy rights necess...

Abasca Resources Inc. is pleased to provide exploration updates on the 100%-owned, 23,977-hectare Key Lake South Uranium Project in Northern Saskatchewan and to announce its exploration plans for 2024. The Company continues to focus on advancing its exploration at KLS towards a uranium discovery and is planning a 5,000 metres drill program to test prospective target areas and trends. A re-sampling program to evaluate graphite potential in what is now referred to as the "Loki Zone" is planned after recent assay and QEMSCAN analyses of samples in the Campbell target area returned significant results from the 2016 drill program. Drill Program In 2023, the Company completed two drill programs totalling 10,135 m. The programs were designed as initial follow-up to historic shallow ...