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Kingsrose Acquires New Project in Finland

North Ostrobothnia, Finland: Kingsrose Mining announced the acquisition of the Jakon project in central Finland from Rio Tinto Exploration Finland Oy. Located near the past producing Hitura mine, the project is prospective for magmatic nickel-sulfide mineralization with historic drilling returning for example 64.7m @ 0.4% Ni and 0.2% Cu at the Kusiaiskallio target. The acquisition […]

Valkea Reports Assay Results From Maiden Campaign

Valkea Resources published assay results from its maiden drilling campaign at the Aarnivalkea prospect in Northern Finland. A total of 6 diamond holes for a total of 1997m have been testing two zones within the larger prospect. The best grades were intersected at the Koivu zone, where drilling intersected high-grades up and down dip of […]

Pampalo Depth Continuation Confirmed

Endomines publish assay results from its 2024 drilling campaign at the Pampalo gold mine. The program consisted of 47 diamond drill holes for a total of 4872m, targeting the planned production area between the 915 and 975m levels and testing the continuation of the mineralization below the 1055m level. Notably, the step out holes testing […]

Basin Energy Reports Results From Virka Project

Basin Energy reported assay results from fieldwork at its newly acquired Virka project in northern Sweden. The Q4 2024 sampling campaign successfully identified two different, structurally controlled mineralization styles – base metal mineralization and lead-uranium-REE mineralization. Samples from an outcropping base metal occurrence returned up to 8.98% Zn, 9.15% Pb, 0.34%Cu, 425g/t Ag, and 0.47g/t […]

Aurion Reports More High-Grade Gold

Aurion Resources reported results from six holes drilled at the Vanha prospect in northern Finland. Notably, drill hole KS25097 intersected 13.60m @ 7.92g/t Au, including 1m @ 57.6g/t Au in a 40m step out from previous drilling at the eastern extent of the prospect. In addition, a scout hole intersected 12.05m @ 0.63g/t Au, including […]