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Mineral Resource update for Joma

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Operating in the border region between Norway and Sweden, Bluelake Mineral announced a mineral resource update for its Norwegian Joma copper and zinc project. According to the updated study, Joma holds a total of 6Mt at 1% Cu and 1.66% Zn in the indicated and 1.2Mt at 1.2% Cu and 0.7% Zn in the inferred […]

Final drill results from Lappvattnet

Active in northern Sweden, Gungnir Resources reported the final results from a 15 hole drill program at its Lappvattnet Ni-project. Notably, hole LAP21-14 intersected 6.52% Ni over 0.8m within a 4.5m interval grading 2.04% Ni, and hole LAP2115 returned 12m of 1.13% Ni. According to the company, EM geophysics are ongoing at the property and […]

Kallak Update

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Advancing the Kallak Iron Ore deposit near Jokkmokk Sweden, Beowulf Mining published a letter to the new Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Innovation, Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson. The company further published its unaudited results for the first 9 months of 2021.  

Exploration update from Arctic Minerals

Arctic Minerals provided an exploration update. According to the company, 2388m of diamond drilling were carried out at the Peräpohja copper project, advanced together with JV partner Rio Tinto. In addition, 34 historic drill holes have been re-logged and resampled, several geophysical profiles have been completed and geological fieldwork was conducted by both JV partners. […]

Mineral Resource Estimate for Stekenjokk-Levi

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Advancing its polymetallic projects in the border region between Sweden and Norway, Bluelake Mineral announced a Mineral Resources estimate for the Stekenjokk-Levi copper and zinc project. According to the estimate by SRK, Stekenjokk amounts to an inferred mineral resource of “6.7 million tonnes with 0.9 % Cu, 2.7 % Zn, 0.6 % Pb, 55 Ag […]

More Nickel intercepts from Lappvattnet

Advancing its Lappvattnet Ni project in northern Sweden, Gungnir Resources reported a new intersection of 10m @ 1.74% Ni in drill hole LAP21-13. According to the company, assay results for 13 from 15 holes have now been received.   Assay results for LAP21-13, Lappvattnet (Source: www.gungnirresources.com)

High-grade intercepts from Tomtebo

District Metals reported new assay results from the first three drill holes of its phase 2 drilling program at the polymetallic Tomtebo project. Drill hole TOM21-025 intersected 14.3m @ 14.2 % ZnEq at the Steffenburgs zone. Together with previous intercepts, this zone is now interpreted to represent a classic volcanogenic massive sulfide lense with footwall-style […]

Drilling commences at Granmuren

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Ragnar Metals announced it was granted another exploration permit adjacent to its central Bergslagen Tullsta Ni project. The company further advised that drilling to test several EM plates within the Ni-Cu bearing Granmuren intrusion has now commenced.   Ragnar Metals’ exploration claims around its Tullsta Ni project (Source: www.ragnarmetals.com.au)

Exploration update – Kjoli Copper project

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Capella Minerals provided an update regarding its Kjoli Copper project in central Norway. A late summer exploration campaign at Kjoli resulted in the definition of several gravity as well as geochemical soil sampling anomalies along strike of the inferred ore horizon. The company now defined several priority drill targets where the new anomalies coincide with […]

Survey among residents in Pajala

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Operating in the Pajala commune in northernmost Sweden, Kaunis Iron published results from a recently conducted survey among the residents of Pajala. According to the study, 92 percent of the participants are positive about the mining operations in Pajala.