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ASX- and Aim-listed Aura Energy has achieved an average 550% increase in uranium grade through pilot scale confirmatory results from simple screening techniques carried out at its Tiris uranium project, in Mauritania. Preliminary bulk leaching tests have also confirmed rapid uranium extraction of over 95%.

South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership Investment Plan, or JETP-IP, should be geared towards projects that will support the country in meeting the lower end of its new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), a senior US Treasury official has indicated. Ahead of the 2021 COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, South Africa made a material update to its NDC target range for 2030, which was improved to between 420- and 350-million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2-eq) from an... Читать дальше...

The detraction of the South African investment market is the uncertainty around approval timelines and the implementation of a deeming provision could change all that by treating applications as approved after the passing of a set period of time. Many want to invest in exploration and mining right now but are put off by timeline uncertainties.

Mining activities at the 777 zinc/copper mine, in Flin Flon, Manitoba, have concluded, after reserves were depleted following 18 years of steady production, TSX- and NYSE-listed Hudbay Minerals reported on Wednesday. Closure activities at the 777 mine have started and employees and equipment are transitioning to the company’s operations in Snow Lake, Manitoba.

A community in Peru's Andes mountains on Wednesday suspended their blockade of a highway used by MMG Ltd's Las Bambas copper mine, agreeing to negotiate with the government and the company over the road's use, one of the community's leaders said. "It is a truce that will last until Wednesday of next week. If a solution is not found, we will restart the protest," Efrain Mercado, president of the Mara district defense front, told Reuters by telephone.

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has continued to speak out against the state government’s decision to hike coal royalties, saying the resources sector would be much harder hit than predicted by the state Treasurer. Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick earlier this week ended a decade-long royalty freeze, imposing a progressive royalty tier system.

ASX-listed Mincor has received first payment from its first parcel of nickel ore processed through mining major BHP’s Kambalda nickel concentrator, in Western Australia. Mincor on Thursday said that a payment of A$25.3-million was received, representing 90% of the payment for nickel concentrate calculated for ore deliveries up to the end of May 2022.

ASX-listed Antilles Gold has flagged the potential for a second mine development in Cuba, in a joint venture (JV) with the Cuban government’s mining company, GeoMinera. The company told shareholders that based on a review of geological data from exploration work undertaken by a Canadian company in the 1990s, the Antonio polymetallic deposit has proven capable of sustaining a small openpit operation that would produce copper and zinc concentrates, with silver credits.