Big News Roundup: Pacton Acquires “Golden Palms” Ground in Egina Area, Pilbara; Nevada Copper Hits with 19 Mineralized Holes: Enhances Potential of Open Pit Economics; First Cobalt Announces Inferred Mineral Resource for Iron Creek Project – Open at Depth and Along Strike

Sept 28 Big News Roundup: Pacton Acquires “Golden Palms” Ground in Egina Area, Pilbara; Nevada Copper Hits with 19 Mineralized Holes: Enhances Potential of Open Pit Economics; First Cobalt Announces Inferred Mineral Resource for Iron Creek Project – Open at Depth and Along Strike

This week, the S&P/TSX Composite index (INDEXTSI:OSPTX) remained fairly flat. On Friday, the index fell due to NAFTA trade agreement concerns. The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX), meanwhile, steadily dropped all week.

Base:

• Foran Intersects 27 Metres of Continuous Mineralization
• Forum Closes Acquisition of Idaho and Oregon Cobalt Properties
• Avrupa Minerals Reports Positive Drilling Results from Entre Matinhas target on the Alvito IOCG Project, Portugal
• Nevada Copper Hits with 19 Mineralized Holes: Enhances Potential of Open Pit Economics

Critical:

• International Cobalt Samples Over 5% Cobalt Among Several High-Grade Cobalt-Gold Occurrences At New Discovery On Blackbird Creek Project
• Canada Carbon Signs MOU Agreement for Its Nuclear Purity Graphite Valued at USD $40k Per Tonne
• Maxtech Provides Update on All Brazilian Assets
• First Cobalt Announces Inferred Mineral Resource for Iron Creek Project – Open at Depth and Along Strike
• SRG’s Metallurgical Testwork Under Way
• Manganese X: Peter Lake Copper-Nickel-Cobalt Property in Quebec Averages 2.23% High Grade Copper from trench blast samples

Energy:

• IFR Enters Option Agreement for 100% of Tonalli Energia; Upon Exercise Grupo IDESA to Become Major Investor in IFR
• Advantage Achieves Key Milestone With Filing Of Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) Report And Confirms Cauchari Project Development On Track

Precious:

• Goldplay Announces Additional Positive Results From Sampling Of Historical Core At San Marcial
• Great Bear Drills Highest Grade Gold To-Date at New Near-Surface Discovery in “South Limb Zone”, Dixie Project, Red Lake District
• Pacton Acquires “Golden Palms” Ground in Egina Area, Pilbara
• Canuc Enters Into Definitive Agreement With Full Circle Energy Ltd.
• Comstock Metals Joint Venture Partner Begins Development of Lithium Extraction Pilot Plant
• White Gold Encounters Multiple High-Grade Surface Results including 139.9g/t, 134.6 g/t and 132.9 g/t Gold from Selected Grab Samples at Vertigo Discovery Extending Strike Length to 1.1km
• Renforth Increases Parbec Contained Ounces of Gold by 28% in the Inferred Category and 11% in the Indicated Category with September 2018 Resource Estimate
• Centenera Completes 100% El Quemado Earn-In
• Aben Intersects Additional, Shallow High-Grade Gold Mineralization at the North Boundary Zone of the Forrest Kerr Project in BC’s Golden Triangle
• Bonterra and Metanor Announce the Closing of the Transaction to Acquire Metanor
• Great Panther Silver Announces Friendly Acquisition of Beadell Resources to Create New Growth Oriented Precious Metals Producer
• Stratabound Announces Continuation of Option Agreements for the Golden Culvert Project, Yukon Territory and Settlement of Certain Liabilities
• Metallic Screen Check Samples Return an Average 25% Increase in Gold Grade Over Fire Assay Samples

This article is updated each week. Please scroll up for the most recent information.

Sept 21 Big News Roundup: SRG Officially Begins Its Feasibility Study for the Lola Graphite Project; Fireweed Drills 21.1% Zinc, 13.5% Lead and 243 g/t Silver over 16.41 m in a Step-Out Hole at Tom East; Gold Resource Corporation’s Alta Gracia Project Returns 10.30 Meters Grading 1,052 g/t Silver

This week, the S&P/TSX Composite index (INDEXTSI:OSPTX) rose steadily. On Friday, the index rose due to potential oil shortage concerns. The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX), meanwhile, had a turbulent week.

Base:

• Fireweed Drills 21.1% Zinc, 13.5% Lead and 243 g/t Silver over 16.41 m in a Step-Out Hole at Tom East
• Deep-South Resources Amend the Agreement to Acquire 75% of the Kapili Tepe Copper, Nickel, Cobalt and Gold Project in Turkey

Critical:

• Maxtech Announces Letter of Interest to Purchase American Strategic Metals Lost Sheep Fluorspar Project and Lost Sheep Mine Adding to Utah Footprint
• ePower Metals Purchases Connel Creek Cobalt Project, Lillooet Mining District BC
• SRG Officially Begins Its Feasibility Study for the Lola Graphite Project

Energy:

• Plateau Extends Falchani “East” Lithium Deposit
• Dajin Delivers Lithium Brine Samples from San Jose – Navidad Property to Lab
• MGX Minerals to Manufacture Proprietary Cathodes for Next Generation Fuel Cell Batteries
• Portofino Executes Definitive Agreement – Hombre Muerto West Lithium Brine Project in Catamarca, Argentina
• Forum Executes Definitive Agreement to Acquire Idaho Cobalt and Oregon Gold-Silver-Copper-Cobalt Properties
• Advantage Lithium: Cauchari JV Project Update Further Excellent Phase III Results In NW Sector Holes CAU20 And CAU21 – Samples Up To 700 mg/l Lithium
• New Tech Lithium Report Vanadium Concentrations in Cobalt-Iron Mineralization at Buena Vista Hills Cobalt Project, Pershing County, Nevada

Precious:

• Pacton Gold receives Regulatory Approval to Purchase 100% of Arrow (Pilbara) Pty. Ltd.
• IDM Mining’s Red Mountain Gold Project Enters Final Stage of Federal Environmental Assessment Process
• Sunvest Minerals Completes Initial Site Visit at Moosehead North Gold Project, Newfoundland
• Alexco Updates Bermingham Mineral Resource
• Great Bear Reports 7.00 m of 68.76 g/t Gold from Revised Hinge Zone Interval, Announces New 30,000 m, 150 Drill Hole Program at Dixie Project, Red Lake District
• Triumph Gold Commences Deep Penetrating Geophysical Surveys over the Blue-Sky, Revenue and Nucleus Area Targeting a Buried Causative Porphyry
• Angkor Signs USD $3.65 Million Earn-In Agreement with Hommy Resources on Banlung Property
• Wallbridge Intersects 122.35 g/t Gold Over 2.95 Metres And 41.02 g/t Gold Over 5.52 Metres In Newly Discovered Habanero Zone
• Algold Reports High-Grade Drill Results at Salma – Eleonore East
• Golden Predator Intercepts 8.5 meters of 5 g/t Gold at Brewery Creek Project; Drilling Extends Known Gold Mineralization over 200 m
• Bonterra Announces New High-Grade Zone Located North of Gladiator near Surface with 27.4 g/t Au over 7.0 m
• Enforcer Gold and SOQUEM Announce Amended & Restated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Roger Project
• Falcon Adds 41 More Claim Units to Coomer Lake Vanadium-Titanium Project, Northern Ontario
• Goldplay Discovers New High-grade Mineralization At San Marcial and Confirms Upside Resource Potential
• Gold Resource Corporation’s Alta Gracia Project Returns 10.30 Meters Grading 1,052 g/t Silver
• Northern Sphere Mining Corp. Identifies High Grade Mineralization Potential, including 35% Zinc and 963 grams Silver over 1 Metre on its Wholly Owned Nevada Property
• White Gold Corp Acquires & Stakes Properties Around New Discovery on JP Ross Property, Yukon; Management to Present at Upcoming Conferences
• Brixton Metals Drills 6.00 metres of 4,719.33 g/t Silver and 0.33% Cobalt at Its Langis Project, Ontario
• Velocity Announces Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Rozino Gold Project, Southeast Bulgaria
• Wealth Initiates New Geophysical Survey in Atacama Region
• Fortune Announces Successful Tests to Produce Upgraded and Clean Cobalt Concentrate From the Nico Project

To see our previous Resource Investing Big News Roundups, please click here.