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Alicanto Provides Update On Swedish Properties

Alicanto Minerals published plans for a low-cost exploration program at its Swedish properties. According to the company, the program will consist of geochemical and geological surveys as well as geological mapping. The company further advised that it expanded its landholdings at the Greater Falun Project (see map below). Greater Falun with highlighted, recently staked tenements […]

Update On BHP – Kingsrose Exploration Alliance

Kingsrose Mining provided an update on its Exploration Alliance with BHP. After spending two million USD on the Central Finland Project to date, BHP has elected to terminate the Central Finland Alliance and focus its exploration efforts on Finnmark. All exploration tenure in central Finland, including the recently acquired Jakon project will be retained 100% […]

Arctic Minerals Provides Hennes Bay Update

Arctic Minerals provided an update on its Hennes Bay Copper-Silver project in southern Sweden. Following the release of its Maiden Resource totaling 447,000t of contained copper and 37Moz silver earlier this year, the company outlined plans for resource growth and exploration work in 2025. The exploration work will consist of geological and structural mapping, inversion […]

Teako Provides Lokken Drilling Update

Teako Minerals announced the completion of its inaugural drilling program at the Lokken copper-cobalt-zinc project. The drilling program consisted of two holes testing the Amot and Hoydal prospects. At the Ã…mot target, drilling intersected a 29.9m interval of mostly pyrite and pyrrhotite mineralization. At Hoydal, the company intersected a 4.9m thick, jasper-rich horizon, which is […]

Pajala Permitting Update

Kaunis Iron received the verdict from the Land and Environmental court of appeal regarding its case concerning existing and expanded iron mining operations in northern Sweden. Although the court of appeal upheld most of the initial decision concerning ongoing and future operations, the company points out the lack of an enforcement order which could have […]

Amaroq Provides Exploration Update

Amaroq Minerals provided an extensive summary of the 2024 exploration results for its strategic minerals portfolio in Greenland. The 2024 work included extensive geological reconnaissance work, geochemical sampling, and more than 5000m of diamond drilling at three different projects. The company also filed additional exploration licenses, including a package in northwestern Greenland that includes a […]

Viscaria Publishes Updated Resource and Feasibility Study

Viscaria published and updated mineral resource estimate and a feasibility study for its Viscaria project in Kiruna, Sweden. Based on recent exploration success, the updated resource estimate now amounts to 108 Mt @ 0.90% Cu for a total of almost 1 million tons of contained copper. Going forward, and supported by the latest positive deep […]

Tomtebo Drilling Update

District Metals provided an update from an ongoing drilling program at its polymetallic Tomtebo project in central Sweden. To date, three drill holes for a total of 1712.5m have been drilled near the old mine, testing the Steffenburgs zone and the inferred ore strata at the contact between different types of geochemically distinct rhyolites. Disseminated […]

Exploration Update From Atalaya Mining

Atalaya Mining provided an update on its Skellefte Belt and Rockliden projects in northern Sweden, where the company can earn an initial 75% interest in two separate land packages. Over the last months, a winter drilling program has been completed at both projects, resulting in 9 drill holes for a total of 2,445m @ the […]

Blue Moon Publishes Maiden Resource For Sulitjelma Project

Nordland County, Norway: Blue Moon Metals announced a maiden NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate for its Sulitjelma project in Norway. Distributed across three deposits, the estimate totals 17 Mt at 1.06% Cu and 0.21% Zn in the inferred category. Going forward, the company plans to develop an exploration drift of up to 1,000 meters into […]