This week, the S&P/TSX Composite index (INDEXTSI:OSPTX) was up and down. On Friday, the index fell due to losses in tech and industrial shares. The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX), meanwhile, steadily dropped, but recovered slightly towards the end of the week.

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

Base:

• Fireweed Drills 4.56% Zinc, 17.34% Lead, and 145 g/t Silver over 8.6 m at End Zone
• Foran’s McIlvenna Bay Drilling Encounters Thick Zones of Mineralization
• Zinc One Reports Final Drill Results from Mina Grande Centro, Bongara Zinc Mine Project, Peru

Critical:

• MGX Minerals Increases Ownership to 60% in Cleantech and Lithium Extraction Partner PurLucid Treatment Solutions
• Noram Closes Transaction With Alba Minerals Ltd. And Re-Gains 100% Interest In Zeus Property, Clayton Valley
• Primary Energy Metals Enters into Agreement to Aquire Lasal West Vanadium-Uranium Claims in the La Sal District of San Juan, Utah
• Global Energy Metals Announces Offtake Agreement for Werner Lake Cobalt Project With Chinese Battery Cathode Manufacturer
• Tantalex and International Cobalt Announce Contemplated Amalgamation

Energy:

• Blue Sky Uranium Reports over 1% U3O8 and 0.1% V205 in Pit Sampling Adjacent to Ivana Uranium-Vanadium Deposit
• Azarga Uranium Increases Measured ISR Uranium Resource By 234% at Flagship Dewey Burdock Project
• Standard Lithium Announces Maiden Inferred Resource of 3,086,000 Tonnes LCE at Southern Arkansas Project
• Stria Lithium and Grafoid are Pleased to Announce the Successful Co-Development of an Innovative Graphene Based Membrane Useful as An Innovative Precursor to the Traditional Lithium Extraction Process
• Azincourt Energy Samples High-Grade Lithium Oxide (Li2O) at the Lithium One Project, Southeast Manitoba

Precious:

• Nexus Gold to Acquire the New Pilot Gold Project, Bridge River Mining Camp, British Columbia, Canada
• White Gold Corp. Drills 103.9 g/t Gold & 400.0 g/t Silver, Identifies New High-Grade Gold Zones at Vertigo Target
• Telson Retains Glencore Technology for Albion Process Testing
• Brixton Metals Delineates a Gravity Anomaly and Begins Drilling the Kimberlite Discovery at its Langis Project, Ontario
• Searchlight Resources Stakes and Samples Hanson Lake Rare Element Pegmatites
• Signature Resources’ First Drill Program at Lingman Lake Continues to Intersect High Grade Gold
• Red Pine Announces Initial Mineral Resource Estimate for its Minto Mine South Project

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