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        <description><![CDATA[The latest mining world news and information from North America providing an overview of North America’s mining industry, highlighting the continent’s key commodities and the latest news on top projects currently under way]]></description>
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            <title>Rare earths developer Viridis secures dedicated grid capacity for Brazil rare earths project ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ASX-listed rare earths developer Viridis Mining and Minerals has secured its first major project execution contract with Minas Gerais-based electricity distributor DME Energética for the delivery of dedicated power transmission infrastructure required for the Colossus rare earths project. The binding agreement with DME secures the critical electrical infrastructure required to connect Colossus to the grid and includes the licensing, engineering, procurement and construction of a 3.2-km-long 138 kV transmission connection from the Saturnino substation to the project, together with an initial reserved power allocation of 27 MW to support Stage 1 operations.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Investment in electricity grids is set to become the single most important driver of copper demand over the coming decades, underpinning growth from renewable energy, electric vehicles (EVs) and AI, says Wood Mackenzie head of copper research Charles Cooper.

Speaking in the first episode of Creamer Media’s new IN FOCUS copper series, Cooper said the world is entering a period of structurally higher copper demand as economies electrify, digitise and strengthen energy infrastructure.]]></description>
            <author>Mariaan Webb</author>
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            <title>New cadastre processing W Cape mining licence applications, Parliament hears</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The phased rollout of the new online mining licensing system – the cadastre – is progressing steadily, with Western Cape applications being received and processed online, Parliament was informed on June 3 during the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources’ (DMPR's) National Council of Provinces (NCOP) Budget Vote 34. The migration from the old system to the new platform has been completed in the Western Cape, and the implementation is now progressing to other regions, Minerals and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe reported.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
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            <title>LibertyStream delivers first lithium carbonate to US customer </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-V-listed LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners has delivered its first tonne of lithium carbonate to a US-based industrial customer from the company’s direct lithium extraction (DLE) unit and lithium carbonate refining facility at NYSE-listed Select Water Solutions’ site in Howard County, Texas, north of Midland. The delivery fulfills LibertyStream’s previously announced first US order and marks the company’s first delivery from the Select site. The lithium carbonate was produced to the customer’s required technical specifications and delivered as part of LibertyStream’s broader customer qualification and commercial sales process.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>LITHIUM</category>
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            <title>Sherritt appoints finance veteran interim CFO to steer through Cuba challenges</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/sherritt-appoints-finance-veteran-interim-cfo-to-steer-through-cuba-challenges-2026-06-04</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Having warned shareholders of acute financial, legal and operational challenges ahead owing to US sanctions in Cuba last month, TSX-listed Sherritt International Corporation has appointed Fitzroy Richardson as interim CFO effective immediately. The company explains Richardson’s appointment will provide experienced financial leadership as the corporation works to complete its outstanding quarterly filings, an important step toward seeking a revocation of a failure-to-file cease trade order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission on May 21.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>NICKEL &amp; COBALT</category>
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            <title>Canadian, Cameroon mining investor BWA Group appoints new CEO </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[UK-listed mining investment company BWA Group has promoted nonexecutive director Peter Taylor as CEO effective June 1. Taylor has been a nonexecutive director of BWA Group since August 2024, providing strategic guidance on the development of the company's exploration portfolio comprising nickel, copper, cobalt and gold in Canada and Cameroon.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>GOLD &amp; BASE METALS</category>
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            <title>Agnico Eagle-backed Fuerte Metals changes name to Talamore Mining </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-V-listed Fuerte Metals Corporation, which acquired gold major Newmont Corporation’s Coffee gold project, in Yukon, Canada, in September last year, and has Canada’s largest miner, Agnico Eagle, as an investor, has changed its name to Talamore Mining Corporation. It is expected that the company’s common shares will start trading under a new ticker symbol “TALA” on June 8.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Seabridge concludes spin-out of Courageous Lake project into newly listing Valor Gold</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX- and NYSE-listed Seabridge Gold has successfully closed the spin-out of its Courageous Lake gold project into a newly listed entity, Valor Gold Corporation, after receiving approval from the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Pursuant to the transaction, which involves a statutory plan of arrangement, Seabridge has transferred its 100% interest in the Courageous Lake gold project, in Canada's Northwest Territories, to Valor, in a move aimed at unlocking value that the company says is not being reflected in its current share price.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>GOLD</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Highland Copper identifies multiple optimisation opportunities at Copperwood ahead of updated ...</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/highland-copper-identifies-multiple-optimisation-opportunities-at-copperwood-ahead-of-updated-feasibility-2026-06-04</link>
            <description><![CDATA[While TSX-V-listed Highland Copper Company undertakes ongoing studies towards an updated feasibility study on the Copperwood project, in Michigan, the company is evaluating lower cut-off grades to expand the mineable resources on site, a simplified process flowsheet for increased recoveries and bulk ore sorting technologies to potentially incorporate the Upper Copper Bearing Sequence resource.

The results of current optimisation work, including previous process plant redesign work, are expected to be incorporated into an updated feasibility study, which, in turn, will support project development planning and financing initiatives. ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>COPPER</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>US emerging miner Sunshine Silver raises $270m in NYSE initial public offering</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/us-emerging-miner-sunshine-silver-raises-270m-in-nyse-initial-public-offering-2026-06-04</link>
            <description><![CDATA[US silver miner Sunshine Silver Mining & Refining ​Company raised $270-million in its initial public offering (IPO) on NYSE om Wednesday, joining a growing number of companies rushing to seize buoyant investor enthusiasm for fresh listings.

The Kellogg, Idaho-based company sold 20-million shares at $13.50 apiece, at the lower end of its indicated range.]]></description>
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            <category>SILVER</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>USA Rare Earth secures $1.6bn US funding</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[USA Rare Earth said on Wednesday it has signed agreements with the US Department of Commerce giving it access to up to $1.6-billion in funding under the CHIPS Act, to support its plans to build a domestic rare earth supply chain.

The agreements follow an earlier announcement that the Trump administration would back a $1.6-billion debt-and-equity funding package for the company.]]></description>
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            <category>RARE EARTHS</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>LNG prices could go higher in significant volatility, Uniper executive says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices could rise further in significant volatility than experienced so far during the Iran war if supply disruptions coalesce with hot weather in Asia and European storage refill needs, German energy multinational Uniper's CE for the Middle East, John Roper, said on Wednesday.

The current supply disruptions have hit Asian countries excluding China harder than Europe so far, and the consequences will be felt until at least 2030 as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and damage to facilities took most of the LNG supply growth from 2025-2026 off the market, Roper said.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>GAS</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Chile's Codelco copper giant names Jorge Gomez as new CEO</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chile's embattled State copper giant Codelco named Jorge Gomez as its new CEO on Wednesday as the company continues to deal with fallout following a scandal over inflated production figures.

In a statement, Codelco confirmed that Gomez will take over as CEO starting on July 13. Reuters broke news of Codelco's plans to appoint Gomez earlier on Wednesday, citing company sources.]]></description>
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            <category>COPPER</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Trump plans $700 million in new coal support, White House official says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump is planning to use Cold War-era national defence powers to send nearly $700-million to support coal facilities, according to a White House official.

Trump could announce as soon as Thursday that he will invoke the Defense Production Act, the 1950 law granting Presidents wide authority over national security-related industries, to upgrade more than a dozen coal power plants, build a massive West Coast coal export terminal and match corporate funds to build new power plants, the official said.]]></description>
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            <category>COAL</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Iron ore posts biggest daily loss in nearly two months on China demand worries</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Iron ore prices slid on Thursday to record their biggest daily losses in nearly two months, weighed down by rising concerns about demand in top consumer China as steel margins shrink and steel consumption weakens amid high input costs.

The most-traded iron-ore contract on China's Dalian Commodity Exchange closed daytime trade down 1.85%, the largest daily loss since April 9, at 767.5 yuan ($113.32) a ton, the weakest level since April 16.
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            <category>IRON-ORE</category>
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            <title>Platinum investment demand broadening to minor PGM metals, SFA (Oxford) points out</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The strong ongoing investment demand for platinum is broadening to the minor platinum group metals (PGMs) such as ruthenium and iridium, SFA (Oxford) CEO Henk de Hoop pointed out on Wednesday June 3. Questioned by Mining Weekly on the prospect of platinum investment demand remaining strong, De Hoop noted that up to half of some of the ruthenium imports into China had been for investment purposes rather than industrial demand.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>PLATINUM GROUP METALS</category>
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            <title>Emerging high-grade graphite developer secures $1.3m Canadian grant </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-V-listed high-grade flake graphite developer Focus Graphite has secured up to $1.3-million in non-repayable federal funding from the Canadian government. The company on June 3 signed a contribution agreement with Natural Resources Canada under the government of Canada's newly established First and Last Mile Fund, formerly the Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund, securing up to $1.3-million in non-dilutive federal funding to advance transportation and energy infrastructure planning for the Lac Knife project in Québec.]]></description>
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            <category>GRAPHITE</category>
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            <description><![CDATA[The NYSE will soon welcome its newest mining company, in integrated copper and cobalt producer CopperTech Metals, with the company having filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering (IPO). CopperTech, which is a spin-off of Vedanta Resources, has not yet determined the number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed IPO.]]></description>
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            <title>Emerging miner American Lithium welcomes Peru's national importance decree for uranium, lithium </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-V-listed American Lithium Corporation has welcomed the Peruvian government's issuance of a Supreme Decree formally declaring the national importance of both uranium and lithium, while declaring an upcoming international forum of national importance.   The inaugural forum, called 'Uranium and Lithium: Pillars of energy leadership for mining, technological and smart city development in Peru and the world', is being co-organised by Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines and the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation, and is scheduled for July 7 and 8.]]></description>
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            <title>Osisko to propose name change, new board nominee to shareholders on June 23 </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[NYSE- and TSX-V-listed Osisko Development Corporation has nominated Keith McKay for election to the board of directors and advised that nonexecutive director Duncan Middlemiss will not stand for re-election at the upcoming yearly general meeting on June 23. 

McKay has more than 45 years’ experience in financial and executive leadership, mostly in the mining and natural resources sector. McKay currently works as CFO of Dalradian Resources while his work history includes directorships at Osisko Mining, O3 Mining and Noront Resources. 

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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>PRECIOUS METALS</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[China has chosen a new State investment company to help coordinate its overseas metals and mining deals, and counter mounting geopolitical risks that threaten its ability to secure resources, according to people familiar with the matter. The National Development and Reform Commission, the government’s economic planning agency, will take the lead on strengthening oversight of investment decisions, the people said, asking not to be identified as they aren’t authorized to speak publicly. State-owned Guangyan International Investment Co will offer support on compliance and financing, as well as industrywide planning of outbound deals.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <title>Troilus granted 70 MW power allocation in Québec to develop copper, gold mine</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-listed Troilus Mining Corporation (TMC) has secured approval from Québec authorities, Hydro-Québec and its Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation, for its planned 70 MW power allocation to support the development and operation of the copper/gold Troilus project. Troilus is currently the largest copper project in the permitting stage in Québec and one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in Canada.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/colorado-school-of-mines-elementusa-awarded-us-gov-funding-to-recover-rare-earths-from-alumina-tailings-2026-06-03</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Research university Colorado School of Mines and mid-stream minerals processing company ElementUSA have been awarded $67-million in funding from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to build a plant for the extraction and processing of rare earth elements (REEs) from alumina tailings in Louisiana.  The project, in Gramercy, Louisiana, is one of two announced on June 3 by the DoE's Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation to design, construct, commission and operate an REE facility capable of separating REE from mine tailings or other waste and refining the resulting oxides into rare earth metals.]]></description>
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            <category>RARE EARTHS</category>
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            <title>Glencore temporarily suspends Cerrejon coal mine operations over road blockades</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Glencore's Cerrejon mine in Colombia, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines, is monitoring blockades that forced it to suspend operations, it said in statements this week.

The site halted its mining, rail and port operations as of Monday owing to a blockade that began on May 23 and interrupted the transport of key supplies, the statement read.]]></description>
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            <title>USA Rare Earth to invest $1.2bn in South Carolina facility to boost domestic supply</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[USA Rare Earth said on Tuesday it will invest $1.2-billion to build a magnet manufacturing and rare earth metals facility in South Carolina, as it expands domestic production capacity.

Shares of the company rose 5.9% to $31.1 in morning trade.]]></description>
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            <title>South Africa can become strong value-add minerals player again, PyroFuZA points out</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/south-africa-can-become-a-strong-value-add-minerals-player-again-pyrofuza-insists-2026-06-02</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Look out for PyroFuZA. Those eight letters have the potential to make best use of South Africa’s natural resources and restore South Africa’s value-adding power, which, in turn, can help to foot the bill for the innovative rebuilding of this country’s economy. PyroFuZA spells out that it's possible for South Africa to put its own distinctive correct measures in place that will enable this country to, once again, become a strong player within the value-add ecosystem, amid different measures being applied at different stages of advancement so that long-term momentum is assured. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
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            <title>EV Resources secures three more sources of antimony feedstock to optimise, ramp up plant</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ASX-listed emerging antimony supplier EV Resources has now signed four non-binding memorandums of understanding (MoUs) that have secured between 2 330 t and 2430 t a month of feedstock for its Tecomatlán antimony processing plant, in Mexico, ahead of the company mining its own ore. EV Resources is refurbishing and installing a two-stage gravity concentrator circuit at the Tecomatlán processing plant, which offers a low-cost and highly efficient processing path for antimony. The plant is expected to initially process third-party sourced ore and eventually material from EV Resources' Los Lirios mine, which is located 50 km away. ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>ANTIMONY</category>
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            <title>Canadian natural hydrogen developer inks MoU to integrate energy, cooling for AI data centres </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Canadian energy and resource exploration company Max Power Mining has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an advanced AI infrastructure and distributed energy systems company called TerraVolt Energy to evaluate the integration of natural hydrogen, modular power systems, sustainable building infrastructure and associated produced brine waters from Max Power's Lawson Complex development into next-generation AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. EcoTech Building solutions and Carbon Neutral Growth Fund are also party to the MoU.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Osisko set for accelerated momentum at Cariboo after raising $300m</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[NYSE and TSX-listed Osisko Development expects net proceeds from its recently offerings to be $290-million, which it will use to cover capped call transactions ($40.2-million) and development of the Cariboo gold project, in the historic Wells-Barkerville mining camp in central British Columbia.

The "robust and scalable underground operation" is expected to produce 1.89-million ounces of gold over a ten-year mine life.]]></description>
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            <title>TDG expects PEA on Shasta gold, silver project in third quarter </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-V-listed TDG Gold Corporation has initiated a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its 100%-owned Shasta gold/silver project in the Greater Shasta-Newberry area of the Toodoggone district in British Columbia. TDG has tasked Ausenco Engineering Canada to be the lead consultant on the PEA, which is targeted for completion in the third quarter. ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>GOLD &amp; SILVER</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Canadian gold exploration company Blue Jay Gold Corporation has successfully raised gross proceeds of $14.7-million following a “best efforts” brokered private placement led by Beacon Securities. Effective May 28, all 18.7-million outstanding subscription receipts were automatically converted into underlying shares and underlying warrants.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-listed gold and silver miner Rockhaven has garnered approval from the Energy, Mines and Resources Branch of the Yukon government to extract high-grade direct shipping oxide material from its wholly-owned Klaza deposit. 

The permit allows for trench excavation, extraction and shipment offsite of mineralised vein material to a depth of 3.5 m from surface along the 460 m of assay confirmed strike length of the Western BRX Zone. 
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            <description><![CDATA[Aim-listed base metals miner Central Asia Metals has proposed to acquire ASX- and TSX-V-listed Cygnus Metals at an implied equity value of A$232-million. 

The companies have entered into a definitive scheme implementation deed which outlines an arrangement whereby each Cygnus shareholder will receive 0.06 new Central Asia shares for each Cygnus share held. 

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