European Metals Holdings (LON:EMH), the owner of the Cinovec lithium deposit in the Czech Republic, has added an AIM listing to its existing quote in Australia.
It was one of a number of mining news stories in a fairly busy week for the sector.
Cinovec has the potential to be a significant and low cost producer of both lithium and tin (and a tungsten credit), according to Keith Coughlan, managing director.
"Being admitted to AIM will provide us with greater flexibility to continue our growth in the future and will enable the company to access a wider investor base,” he said.
Goldplat (LON:GDP) has opened a shotblast facility at its gold recovery operation in Ghana, GRG.
The activity is new for GRG and will generate additional revenue for the business, said Goldplat, with feed materials already being taken in from third parties.
In South Africa, meanwhile, a new on-site weighbridge has been added to the gold recovery business there to make a significant improvement in the control of deliveries into the various treatment circuits.
Meanwhile, metallurgical testing from Armadale Capital's (LON:ACP) Mpokoto project in the DRC has reconfirmed the group's planned proccessing route, it said today.
The completion of the work means it can now complete a definitive feasibility study (DFS) and financing arrangements this year.
The plan is to start producing from the mine in the first half of 2016 – targeting around 25,000 ounces of gold a year over an initial nine years life of mine with projected cash costs of US$647 an ounce.
Elsewhere, KEFI Minerals (LON:KEFI) is on course for first gold from Tulu Kapi in Ethiopia in late 2017, chairman Harry Adams confirmed to shareholders at its annual meeting.
Appointment of banks will be the next step, he said, for US$140mln of the expected US$176mln build costs, of which US$129mln is required upfront.
The remainder of the funds will come from a gold-stream facility where headline terms have already been agreed.
In the meantime, project works are to be financed by interim draw-downs and arrangements with contractors and suppliers.
Shares in mining royalty specialist Anglo Pacific (LON:APF TSX:APY) climbed higher after positive developments at the Narrabri mine in which it has a royalty interest.
The operator of the mine, Whitehaven Coal, revealed that the New South Wales Government's Department of Planning and Environment has granted approval to increase annual production from 8 Mtpa (million tonnes per annum) to 11 Mtpa and to install a 400 metre wide long-wall face at the Narrabri Mine.
The 400 metre wide long-wall face is expected to initially increase run of mine coal production by an estimated 750,000 tpa. The first 400 metre wide long-wall panel is expected to come into production in the first half of calendar year 2017, Whitehaven said.
The effect of this has been to reduce the expected free on board (FOB) costs at Narrabri by around A$3 a tonne; Narrabri's unit cost in fiscal 2015 was A$52 a tonne, well below the current thermal coal market price.
In other news, Premier African’s (LON:PREM) chief executive George Roach has taken his stake in the fledgling tungsten group to just under 30% with conversion of another chunk of debt.
Roach swapped a further US$144,000 (£95,000) of loans into ordinary shares to follow conversion of US$650,000 of borrowings a week ago.
Premier African is ramping up production at the RHA Tungsten mine in Zimbabwe and expects it to move into a profit in the first quarter of 2016, but this is behind schedule after teething problems and a fall in the price of the metal.
Once the shares are issued, Roach will be interested directly and indirectly in aggregate in 29.5% of the company.
Tungsten group W Resources (LON:WRES) said this week it was delighted with the latest drill results from La Parrilla project in Spain, which beat expectations and will improve mine planning next year.
Drilling at the "fast track mine" (FTM) area, which got the green light for development last month, returned some high grade and near surface assays, including 40 metres at 0.32% tungsten from surface in one hole and 56.20m at 0.21% tungsten in another.
Chairman of the miner Michael Masterman said: "These results enable us to better delineate the areas for mine planning next year and are higher than initially expected."