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Teako Minerals Starts Drilling At Lokken

Trøndelag, Norway: Teako Minerals announced the commencement of a maiden diamond drilling campaign at the Lokken Copper Cobalt Zinc project in central Norway. The drilling program will consist of a minimum of 580m and will initially test the Åmot target, where a 2km long coincident geophysical and geochemical anomaly has previously been outlined.   Åmot […]

Blue Moon Metals Acquires Repparfjord Assets

Blue Moon Metals announced the acquisition of all the shares in Repparfjord Eiendom AS, a private Norwegian company that holds significant infrastructure assets adjacent to Blue Moon Metals Nussir project. Among other benefits, the acquisition will give Blue Moon access to port facilities for large ships, a fully permitted aggregate mine, a license to use […]

Kingrose Provides Update On BHP Exploration Alliance

Kingsrose Mining provided an update on its exploration alliance with BHP in northern Norway and central Finland. In northern Norway, the alliance conducted a 5,067 line-km airborne gravity survey, and collected 554 soil samples and 208 rock chip samples in 2024. Polymetallic, high-grade copper-gold-PGE sulfide veins were discovered for example at Porsanger, returning up to […]

Kingsrose Reports Final Råna Results

Kingsrose Mining reported the final assay results from its 2024 drilling campaign at the Råna project in Norway. Three drill holes for a total of 706 meters tested a previously undrilled zone of outcropping massive sulfides, with two holes intersecting nickel sulfide mineralization returning for example 13.8m @ 0.4% Ni, 0.1% Cu and 0.04% Co […]

Updated Mineral Resource Estimate For Ertelien

Kuniko published an updated mineral resource estimate for its Ertelien Nickel-Copper-Cobalt project in Norway. Based on additional exploration efforts in 2024, including some 4000m of diamond drilling and sampling of historic core, a substantial part of the resource has now been converted from inferred to indicated. In total the resource estimate now amounts to 40Mt […]

Final Drill Permits For Lokken Project

Teako Minerals advised that it has been granted the final permits for a winter drilling program at its polymetallic Lokken project in central Norway. The permits cover up to 19 diamond holes that have to be drilled by March 31st, 2025. The drilling program is expected to commence in early 2025, starting with priority drilling […]

King In Council Confirms Porsanger Drilling Permit

Kingrose Mining announced that it received the final approval for its drilling program at the Porsanger project in Finnmark, Norway. On November 29th, the company was informed that the Ministry of Fisheries and Trade’s initial decision to grant the permit was confirmed by the King in Council, making it final and not open to appeal. […]

Kuniko Discovers New Hydrothermal System

Kuniko Discovers New Hydrothermal System

Kuniko reported results from a field mapping and sampling campaign at its Vågå project in Norway’s Trondlelag province. Notably, the work uncovered a new hydrothermal alteration system associated with outcropping copper mineralization grading up to 3.03% Cu at the Tesskrokan target. The company interprets the observed alterations as proximal parts of a hydrothermal system, possibly […]

New Targets Identified At Råna

New Targets Identified At Råna

Kingsrose reported results from a reconnaissance program in the underexplored parts of the Ranå intrusion. In addition to confirming historically known mineralization at the Sukkertoppen, Eiterdalen, and Botneidet targets, the fieldwork resulted in the discovery of previously unrecognized Ni-Cu-Co mineralization at Eitertinden. Notably, all of these targets are located on the 100% owned properties recently […]