Equinox sells Brazil mine, focuses on Canadian growth

Global financing earmarked specifically for exploration more than halved last year and now represents less than a quarter of the 2012 peak.

"Low-cost, mid-tier gold producers ... are going to get bought regardless of what's happening in the big ones."

The study is based on information collected from 33 prospectors and 172 mineral and coal exploration companies operating in British Columbia.

Geologists believe asteroids are packed with iron ore, nickel and precious metals at much higher concentrations than those found on Earth, making up a market valued in the trillions.

In 2019, Sherritt's Moa JV is expected to produce between 31,000 and 33,000 tonnes of finished nickel and between 3,300 and 3,600 tonnes of finished cobalt.

Zimbabwe's secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs was quoted as saying Botswana had offered to lend Zimbabwe $500 million to support its diamond industry.

The 2,932-hectare project encompasses a full salar.

Close Lake is located between the Cigar Lake and McArthur River uranium mines, the two richest of their kind in the world.

Jaxon is designing a multi-disciplinary exploration program to map the sources of the mineralization.