
Record quarter for Victorian minerals exploration spending
Australian Bureau of Statistics data on minerals exploration spending shows exploration in Victoria reached a record high of AUS$39.7 million in 2Q20.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics data on minerals exploration spending shows exploration in Victoria reached a record high of AUS$39.7 million in 2Q20.

Golden Birch Resources Inc. has announced that it is preparing to begin a drilling programme at the Omu copper-gold prospect located within the company’s flagship Keveri property, located in Papua New Guinea.

South32 Ltd and Trilogy Metals Inc., partners in Ambler Metals LLC, have announced that the Board of Ambler Metals has appointed Ramzi Fawaz as President and CEO of Ambler Metals.

Rio Tinto’s Kennecott site, Utah, USA is the first producer to be awarded the Copper Mark, the copper industry’s new independently assessed responsible production programme.

Trilogy Metals Inc. has announced positive results of its feasibility study for the Arctic copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold project in the Ambler mining district of Northwestern Alaska, USA.

Greatland Gold plc has provided an update on its exploration activities in the Paterson region, Western Australia (excluding the Havieron Farm-in area).

The Minister of Mining, accompanied by the Executive President of Codelco, visited inside the underground mine one of the testing centres that the division has to prevent infections.

Atlus Strategies Plc has provided an update on the company’s 100% owned Agdz silver and copper project, Morocco.

CIMIC’s global mining services provider, Thiess, has been awarded a mining services contract with Mantos Copper S.A. at their Mantos Blancos mine, Chile.

Territory Labour’s recently announced AUS$26 million plan for resources, mining and petroleum acknowledges the strong contribution of mining to jobs and investment in the Northern Territories, Australia.

Castillo Copper Ltd has announced that a pre-site visit to the Mt Oxide Project has identified a prominent shear zone, surface outcrop and visible copper mineralisation.

Codelco is preparing to resume its suspended projects and operations.