Ghana will abolish value-added tax on mineral exploration and reconnaissance to boost investment in its mining sector, its finance minister said, as Africa’s top bullion producer seeks to reverse over two decades of sluggish new development.

Andrada Mining has begun exploration drilling at the Lithium Ridge project, in Namibia, in partnership with Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) through its subsidiary SQM Australia.

Western Australian Mines and Petroleum Minister David Michael on Tuesday unveiled a next-generation spectral scanner set to accelerate resource discovery across Western Australia.

Exploration and development company Arrow Minerals remains in voluntary trading suspension on the ASX as it awaits clarity from Guinean authorities regarding the status of its exploration tenements, amid a government review that has cast uncertainty over the future of multiple mining permits in the West African nation.

Drilling by Luca Mining (TSXV: LUCA) has returned results as high as 15.1 metres grading 5.35 grams gold per tonne, 187.5 grams silver, 0.31% copper, 8.39% zinc and 2.75% lead in the Reforma deposit at the company’s Campo Morado mine in southwest Mexico. Shares increased.

Guinea's military government has cancelled 129 minerals exploration permits, it said in a statement late on Monday, as the West African nation tightens control over its assets.

Gemfields Group announced that Kagem Mining, the emerald mine in Zambia which is 75% owned by Gemfields and 25% owned by the government through the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia (IDC), will shortly start a programme of focused openpit mining to recover more premium emeralds.

Australia’s Southern Cross Gold raised C$143 million ($117 million) in a private placement in Canada to support work at the Sunday Creek gold-antimony project.

Liebherr-Australia has commissioned five PR 776 dozers for Northern Star Resources, which is around a third of the 13 new machines set to arrive.

Bellevue is bouncing back with plans to deliver stronger June quarter production of 40,000–45,000 ounces (oz).