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Construction has begun on a long-awaited critical minerals testing facility in Townsville, in northern Queensland, with the state’s new Liberal National Party (LNP) government claiming credit for...
London-listed Blencowe Resources has received the latest disbursement of $500 000 from the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), taking total funds received under the overall...
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Brazil-based miner Terra Goyana Mining (TGM) benchmark themselves in mineral research, development, beneficiation and bauxite commercialisation. Representing 5.5% of national production, the...
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The prefeasibility study (PFS) work on London-listed Harena Resources’ 75%-owned Ampasindava rare earths project, in Madagascar, is progressing at pace. The company added on May 6 that initial work...
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South African platinum group metals (PGM) companies have been invited to become part of a programme that is targeting an initial 1.7-million-ounce increase in demand for palladium, a PGM that...
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