This week, the S&P/TSX Composite index (INDEXTSI:OSPTX) saw significant volatility alongside the rest of the global markets. Following a sharp dip on Thursday, the index opened stronger on Friday with a four percent increase in oil prices. The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX), meanwhile, saw parallel activity to the TSX, with a better recovery on Friday.

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

Battery:

• Maxtech Initiates 2019 Vanadium Exploration Program in Quebec
• International Battery Metals Announces The Successful Live Demonstration Of Its Lithium Extraction Technology
• Searchlight Resources Acquires Cobalt Vanadium Property in Saskatchewan
• Sienna Resources Amends Terms on Slättberg Cobalt-Nickel-Copper Project in Sweden

Base:

• Wealth Announces Spin-Out Company for Newly Acquired Chilean Copper Assets

Critical:

• MGX Minerals Enters Final Phase of Product Development for Next Generation Zinc Air Fuel Cell Systems

Energy:

• Manganese X Earns 100% Interest in the “Battery Hill” Houlton – Woodstock Manganese Property in New Brunswick

Precious:

• Bonterra Discovers Multiple New Zones North of the Gladiator Deposit
• Orsu Metals Recent Drilling Connects Kozie and Klyuchi West Occurrences into a Single 750-m-Long and 250-m-Wide Stockwork at Its Sergeevskoe Gold Project, Russia
• Montan Mining Agrees to Acquire the Greater Las Huaquillas Project in Northern Peru
• Comstock Metals Announces Disposition of Old Cabin Property and its Interest in the Corona Property

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