Pebble confirms potential for critical mineral production

The South African miner is exchanging a number of gold-processing assets and tailings storage facilities for a 38% stake in DRDGOLD.

San José is a 5,580-hectare property that shows multi-element mineralization.

Polyus starts 180,000m drilling campaign to update mineral reserve as early as July for 58 million ounce Sukhoi Log deposit explored since 1960s.

The Vancouver-based miner wants to form a major new copper producer.

Canada’s National Contact Point (NCP) said complains from an Alaskan group don't merit further examination, closing the file after only the initial assessment level of review.

Lawmakers will miss a December target to pass changes to mineral resource laws, seen as key for greater investor certainty.

"Back in March of this year we noted that the gold stocks could be following the path of recovery of housing stocks since their 2009 bottom."

In an alliance with International Mining and Dredging Holdings, the Canadian miner ran a bulk sampling program whose results "were extremely encouraging."

The world's No. 2 copper and zinc producer has been trying to regulate small-scale and artisanal mining activities since 2002.