Athena Gold Corp. is pleased to announce a significant expansion of its flagship Laird Lake gold project in Ontario's prolific Red Lake Gold District, alongside an update on its Excelsior Springs project in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Laird Lake Project Expansion and Till Program Update Athena has expanded its Laird Lake project by approximately 24% through the acquisition of an additional 995 hectares via map staking, increasing the total land package to approximately 5,155 hectares. The new claims were staked in response to encouraging initial results from the 2025 field season, which highlighted favourable trending structures trending westwards. Located approximately 10 km west of West Red Lake Gold Mines' Madsen mine and 34 km northwest of Kinross Gold's Great Bear project,...

Azarga Metals Corp. is pleased to announce that it has reached terms with Minera Alamos Inc. whereby Azarga Metals will exercise the option to purchase the Marg Project, located in Central Yukon. Marg Project Agreement In January 2024, the Company and through various corporate actions what is now Minera Alamos agreed to restructure the terms of the Marg Project as an option to purchase agreement . To exercise the option to purchase, Minera Alamos has further agreed that subject to and upon receipt of the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, Azarga Metals will at closing as full and final settlement of the purchase price pay $210,000 cash to Minera Alamos and issue Minera Alamos 1,981,250 common shares of the Company as calculated by dividing $158,500 by $0.08, w...

Idaho Strategic Resources is pleased to announce that it has acquired the Toboggan project from Hecla Silver Valley. The map above shows IDR's current patented and unpatented land in pink and IDR's newly acquired patented and unpatented land from Hecla in grey and green, respectively. The Toboggan project is located in the Murray Gold Belt in northern Idaho, approximately three miles north of IDR's Golden Chest Mine. The land package comprises 143.5 acres of patented mining claims known as the Little Baldy prospect, and numerous adjacent unpatented mineral claims containing other prospects such as Gold Butte, Mineral Ridge, Golden Reward, Progress, Lost Eagle, and Inde...

Hycroft Mining Holding announces second quarter 2025 results and filing of its Form 10-Q. President's Message In the second quarter of 2025, Hycroft advanced several key activities: Strengthened the balance sheet by completing a public offering of Units, raising $40.7 million in cash in June 2025. The exercise of the over-allotment option in July 2025 increased total proceeds to approximately $45.0 million. As a result of the offering, Eric Sprott's 2176423 Ontario Ltd. increased its ownership in the Company from 7% to 22% and approximately 15 new institutions came into the shareholder registry. Funded and further developed the 2025-2026 Exploration Drill Program that will focus on expanding the high-grade silver systems ...

SPC Nickel and Dundee Corporation are pleased to announce the closing of SPC's previously announced rights offering, pursuant to which the Corporation issued rights to the holders of its common shares at the close of business on June 24, 2025. The Corporation issued 175,000,000 Common Shares at a subscription price of $0.02 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of $3,500,000. The net proceeds of the Rights Offering will be used to conduct the first modern airborne geophysical surveys in over 20 years on the Corporation's 470 km2 polymetallic Muskox property and the advancement of the West Graham Deposit via a series of environmental, geotechnical and metallurgical studies. In addition, the Corporation plans to evaluate a number of very hig...

First Mining Gold is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced sale of its 20% project interest in the Hope Brook Gold Project in Newfoundland with Big Ridge Gold for total consideration comprised of C$3,000,000 in cash and 7,000,000 common shares of Big Ridge. First Mining is a gold developer advancing two of the largest gold projects in Canada, the Springpole Gold Project in northwestern Ontario, where we have commenced a Feasibility Study and permitting activities are on-going with a final Environmental Impact Statement / Environmental Assessment for the project submitted in November 2024, and the Duparquet Gold Project in Quebec, a PEA-stage development project located on...

MetalQuest Mining is pleased to announce that further to its news release of June 24, 2025 it has completed a non-brokered private placement and will issue a total of 7,389,943 units raising $517,296, subject to final TSX Venture Exchange approval. Each Unit consisted of one common share and one non-transferable share purchase warrant, with each Warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share at a price of $0.10 per share for a period of three years. The proceeds of the Private Placement will be used for exploration and development and for general working capital purposes. On closing of the Offering, New Age Metals Inc., a company focused on critical metals and having previously owned approx. 6.44% of MQM will become a new insider of the Company hol...

Ares Strategic Mining is pleased to announce the initiation of a collaborative research program with Iowa State University and the Ames National Laboratory, aimed at unlocking the potential of gallium extraction from the Company's fluorspar ores sourced from its Spor Mountain project, a U.S.-designated critical mineral, is essential to the global electronics, photonics, and clean energy industries-particularly in the manufacturing of LEDs, semiconductors, and high-performance electronics. This research initiative represents a strategic opportunity for Ares to expand its product offerings beyond fluorspar and enter the high-value critical materials market. Cutting-Edge Collaboration to Unlock Critical Minerals Under this agreement, ISU's Microelectronics ...

Cameco reported its consolidated financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. "The solid second quarter and first-half financial performance across our uranium, fuel services, and Westinghouse segments demonstrates the resilience of our strategy and the constructive outlook for nuclear power, significantly improving our overall 2025 expectations," said Tim Gitzel, Cameco's president and CEO. "Despite the uncertainty-driven volatility throughout the capital markets during the first half of the year, the need for clean electrons has remained on the critical path to addressing global energy security, national security, and climate security concerns. As a result, we believe nuclea...

MAC Copper is pleased to announce that the Royal Court of Jersey today ordered that meetings of MAC shareholders be held to consider the proposed acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital in MAC by Harmony Gold by way of a Jersey law scheme of arrangement pursuant to Article 125 of the Companies Law 1991. Unless otherwise defined, capitalised terms used in this announcement have the meaning given to them in the Scheme Circular. Court orders The Court has today made orders, among other things, that MAC: convene a meeting of Scheme Shareholders to consider and vote on a resolution to approve the Scheme ; and convene a meeting of MAC Shareholders immediately after the Court Meeting to approve certain other ...

VANCOUVER, BC, July 31, 2025 /CNW/ - Thesis Gold Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Russell Ball to its Board of Directors and David Garratt as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. In connection with these changes, Nick Stajduhar has stepped down from the Board effective immediately, but will continue with the Company in his role as Vice President, Corporate Development, and Sean Mager has stepped down as CFO with immediate effect. "We're excited to welcome both Russell and David to the Thesis team," said Ewan Webster, President and CEO. "Russell brings deep board and executive-level experience from some of the most respected names in mining, and David adds strong financial leadership and sector expertise that will be instrumental as we advance our dev...

Cabral Gold Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Vinícius Resende Domingues to Cabral's Board of Directors with immediate effect. Vinicius Domingues currently serves as the General Manager of Regulatory Affairs at Vale S.A., Brazil's largest mining company, which employs over 64,000 people across 30 countries. He is also a Board member of IBRAM and an Honorary Lecturer at University College London. Vinicius holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and both a Master's and Doctorate in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Brasília. He also earned an MBA in Project Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brasília and a Master's degree in Economics from Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo. In addition, he is a visiting lecture...

Energy Fuel is pleased to announce that, effective August 4, 2025, Mr. Ross R. Bhappu will become the President of Energy Fuels Inc. while Mr. Mark S. Chalmers, who is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Company, will continue in his role as CEO and Director. This action is being completed in accordance with the Company's long-term succession plans. Mark S. Chalmers, President and CEO, stated: "We are delighted to welcome Ross to the Energy Fuels team. Ross has over 35 years of experience in mining and private equity, including nearly 25 years with Resource Capital Funds, where he provided both technical and financia...