Resource Big News Roundup: Goldplay Announces Maiden Mineral Resource for San Marcial Project; Berkwood Metallurgical Tests Yield 97.8% Graphite; Zinc One Announces Initial Resource Estimate for Bongara Project

This week, the S&P/TSX Composite index (INDEXTSI:OSPTX) steadily gained, but at the end of the week. On Friday, the market fell as data show a rise in unemployment rates and fears of a global economic slowdown weighed heavily on the index. The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX), meanwhile, steadily dropped all week.

In case you missed it, here is this week’s resource big news roundup:

Base:

• Lions Bay: Consolidated Potash Corporation Establishes Joint Venture with Verdant Minerals
• Zinc One Announces Positive Initial Resource Estimate at Bongara Zinc Mine Project, Peru

Battery:

• MGX Minerals Announces Oilsands Lithium Extraction and Wastewater Treatment System Deployments
• Cobalt Power Group Inc. Announces Consolidation and Name Change to “Power Group Projects Corp.”
• Berkwood Metallurgical Tests Yield 97.8% Graphite in Concentrate Grade
• American Manganese Inc. Commences Testing of Lithium-Ion Battery Materials Recycling Pilot Plant

Energy:

• Azarga Uranium’s NRC License Upheld for Dewey Burdock Project

Precious:

• Renforth Obtains 24.62 g/t Gold over 0.9m at Parbec in Malartic, Quebec
• Goldplay Announces its Maiden Mineral Resource, Containing 36 Million oz AgEq (Indicated) and 11 Million oz AgEq (Inferred), at the San Marcial Project
• Angkor Pursuing Oil and Gas Opportunities In Cambodia
• Red Pine Discovers Another High-Grade Structure at its Wawa Gold Project
• Newrange Achieves 97.1% Gold Extraction from Pamlico Mineralization

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