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Drill preparations in Norway

Kuniko Limited provided an exploration update from its Norwegian projects. The company advised that a permit application to drill the Skuterud Cobalt project was filed in February with  a 7 drill hole program for approx. 2800m currently scheduled for Q2 22. Downhole geophysics of historic drill holes has recently been completed with the data currently […]

Capella Minerals – Drill permits received

Capella Minerals reported it received permits to drill up to 4000m in 25 holes at its Kjoli Copper project in central Norway. Four main target areas will initially be tested, with one being a large, deep EM conductor that is interpreted by the company to represent a buried massive sulfide body. Due to excessive snowfall […]

Deal made on Mo-i-Rana VMS project

EMX announced the sale of the Mo-i-Råna volcanogenic massive sulfide project in Norway to Mahvie Minerals, a private Swedish company. To keep its interest in the project, Mahvie has to spend a minimum of 200k USD within the first year and an aggregate of 1 million USD or 2000m of drilling within the first three […]

RKV drill plan for 22′

RKV drill plan for 22'

Playfair Mining provided an outlook for planned drilling activities in 2022. The company aims to continue its 2021 drill program at the RKV project, with 26 drill holes for a total of 1300m planned in 2022. Playfair was now given the right to access the drill areas by helicopter, which will facilitate logistics in 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 […]

Expansion investment in Odda

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Boliden announced the signing of an agreement with Metso Outotec regarding an expansion investment in the company’s Odda smelter. The agreement amounts to 150M euros and includes, “among other things, a roasting plant, sulfuric acid plant, leaching technology and engineering services”. Following the investments in Odda, the Zinc smelters capacity will increase from currently 200000tpa […]

Updated Mineral Resource estimate for Norwegian Cu-Au project

Arctic Minerals provided an updated mineral resource estimate for its Bidjovagge Cu-Au project in Norway. According to the new estimate, the project contains 3.3Mt at 1.27g/t Au and 0.97% Cu in the indicated resource category and 0.3Mt at 1.8g/t Au and 0.7% Cu in the inferred resource category. The updated resource estimate was based on […]

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 […]

Exploration update – Kjoli Copper project

Capella Minerals

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 […]