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Firefox Gold – Airborne Survey Completed

Firefox Gold announced the completion of an airborne mag survey at its Kolho Property in northern Finland. According to the company, the survey and subsequent interpretation have identified geological similarities to both, the Kittilä Mine and the Ikkari deposit. Following this survey and based upon previous reconnaissance work, Firefox is now making application for five […]

Rupert Resources – Exploration Update

Rupert Resources provided an exploration update from drilling at the Ikkari and Heinä South discoveries. At Ikkari, continued drilling extended the known mineralization at depth, e.g. 16m @ 3g/t Au at a vertical depth of 413m in drill hole 121071, while infill drilling continued to further deliver good grades, e.g. 72m @2.2. g/t Au starting […]

FireFox Gold Exercises Option

Firefox Gold advised it completed its winter exploration program at the Sarvi gold project, located north of Rupert Resources’ Area 1 discovery. After conducting a significant BoT sampling campaign and drilling 12 maiden holes, thus fulfilling its work commitments under an option agreement with Magnus Minerals, the company intends to make the final payment to […]

Assay Results From Satulinmäki

New Peak Metals provided final results from its Q4 2021 drill program at the Satulinmäki Gold prospect. Intersections from the 10-hole, 1955m program include e.g. 4m @ 5.64g/t Au, including 1m @19.75 g/t Au in drill hole SM0012 and 12m @ 1.13 g/t Au in drill hole SM0014. According to the company, the mineralization appears […]

Significant Rhodium Mineralization Confirmed At Penikat

Significant Rhodium Mineralization Confirmed At Penikat

Kingsrose Mining provided an update on its Finnish Penikat-PGE project. Recent resampling of historic core confirmed consistent high-grade Rhodium, Iridium, and Ruthenium grades in addition to previously reported Pd, Pt, Au, and Ni values. Significant intercepts include e.g. 2m @ 0.84g/t Rh, 0.25g/t Ir, 0.22g/t Ru plus 1.8g/t Pd, 4.1g/t Pt, 0.1g/t Au and 0.15% […]

Significant Intercept From Helmi

Aurion Resources provided an update from its Helmi project, currently advanced together with JV partner B2 Gold. First assay results of the company’s winter drilling program returned 77.5m @ 2.05g/t Au, including 24.55m @ 4.18g/t Au in drill hole IKK22018 and 15.9m @ 1.42g/t Au in drill hole IKK22019. Both drill holes were scissor holes […]

New High-Grade Intersections From Pampalo

Endomines reported results from a six-hole underground exploration drilling program carried out at the end of 2021. The 1609m drill program aimed at testing underground exploration targets north and east of the Pampalo main mineralization at the 700m level. The best intersection returned 6m @ 4.1g/t Au, including 1m @ 21.6 g/t Au and 2.7m […]

Northgold Outlines Exploration Plans

Northgold outlined details of its 2022 exploration plans at its two flagship projects in Central Finland. The newly listed company plans a 5000m diamond drilling program, with 4000-4500m budgeted for resource growth at the Kopsa project, and 500-1000m for exploration drilling a the Kiimala Trend project. In addition, the company also plans to run IP […]

Palladium One Publishes New LK- Estimate

Palladium One announced an updated mineral resource estimation for its LK PGE-Cu-Ni project in northern Finland. In the indicated category, the estimate amounts to: 1.1Moz TPM (Total Precious Metals, Pd+Pt+Au) @ 0.89g/t, 111million pounds of copper @ 0.13%, 92 million pounds nickel @ 0.11% and 5 million pounds of cobalt @ 65g/t, contained in 38.2 […]

VMS Exploration in Pyhäsalmi District

Avrupa Minerals provided an update on initial work at the Kolima project, one of its recently acquired VMS projects in central Finland. At Kolima, historic work outlined the occurrence of widespread disseminated sulfides together with locally occurring semi-massive to massive Zn-Pb-Ag sulfide mineralization, which is currently interpreted to represent distal parts of a volcanogenic, massive […]