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Restart of Operations at Woxna?

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Leading Edge Materials announced it is evaluating the restart of graphite production at Woxna due to improved market conditions for flake graphite. The Woxna graphite mine in central Sweden is fully built and permitted, thus allowing the company to quickly restart operations if the internal review to restart operations leads to a positive outcome.  

Additional Conductor at Lappvattnet

Gungnir Resources reported results from a recently conducted slingram survey at its Lappvattnet Ni-project in northern Sweden. The electromagnetic survey resulted in the discovery of an additional conductor, the north target, some 100m away from the Lappvattent Nickel deposit, showing similar geophysical characteristics. A third conductor to the south of the deposit is known to […]

Additional projects for Euro Battery Minerals

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Euro Battery Minerals announced that its partner FinnCobalt Oy was granted a new reservation covering the Varislahti prospect, prospective for Outokumpu-type deposits. The new reservation, located only 10km west of the company’s flagship Hautalampi project, already contains a historical defined Mineral Resource (Riihilahti deposit = 0.7 Mt @ Cu 0.72 %, Co 0.09 %, Ni […]

LiB Recycling agreements

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Hannans entered into an agreement with Greenhouse Investment Ltd., proving the company with the rights to expand its lithium recycling commercialization activities into the UK, Ireland, Italy and the Balkans. Following this agreement, the company now holds rights and sub-licenses covering large parts of the European LiB recycling market

9 drill holes intercept pegmatite

United Lithium reported that a recently discovered spodumene-bearing pegmatite was intersected in 9 additional drill holes at the company’s Bergby lithium project. As of now, the pegmatite has been intersected over a strike length of more than 200m, with an interpreted fault offset in its northeastern parts. Drilling is ongoing and further drill holes are […]

Pegmatite Discovery at Bergby

United Lithium announced the discovery of new lithium-rich pegmatites at Bergby, Sweden. Drill hole BBY21069 intersected 1.34% LiO2 over 47.75m, with an estimated true thickness of 10m. The new discovery is based on boulder hunting and lies 750m to the northwest of the original Bergby lithium discovery. Follow-up drilling to test the extent of the […]

Drill Planning at Skuterud

Kuniko Limited provided an update regarding maiden drilling at its Norwegian Skuterud Cobalt Project. Recent work by the company has defined three drill targets (Middagshvile, Damtjern, Dovikkollen B), based on the presence of conductive anomalies, soil sampling data, historic data, and geological context. Permitting is currently underway and the company aims to test the targets […]

Co and Te assays from Bidjovagge

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Arctic Minerals provided an update on its Bidjovagge gold-copper project in Norway. A recent study of historic drill core resulted in the discovery of high-grade cobalt and tellurium values, returning up to 0.778% Co and 500ppm Te. A total of 144 core samples exceeded values of 0.1% Co while a total of 45 intervals returned […]

MoU signed with City of Vaasa

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Beowulf Mining announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Grafintec Oy and their partner Epsilon Advanced Materials signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Vaasa regarding the establishment of an anode materials production facility. The proposed plant with a final, overall capacity of 50,000 TPA of anode material aims to supply battery/cell manufacturers in […]

Enonkoski Update

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Bluejay Mining announced the completion of its 2021 exploration program at the Enonkoski Ni-Cu-Co project, advanced together with JV partner Rio Tinto. Over the previous year, the company drilled a total of 4149.45m of diamond core, 99 top of bedrock holes, completed DHEM surveys on 22 drill holes, conducted UAV magnetic surveys and geological fieldwork. […]