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 () has commenced drilling under the Juri joint venture with partner Newcrest Mining Ltd (). The Juri joint venture is in the highly prospective Paterson province of Western Australia.

 () said production in the first quarter was in line with guidance despite significant rainfall hampering iron ore output in Australia. The international mining group also retained its output expectations for the year and continued to show contrition for the destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site in Juukan Gorge.

 () said revenue in the first quarter increased 20% year-on-year to US$593mln (£426mln) as a result of higher gold and silver prices and improved production. 

 () said its coal production fell in the first quarter and reduced its full-year output guidance for both metallurgical and thermal coal. Thermal coal production dropped 20% from the year-earlier quarter to 4.9 million tonnes (Mt), with guidance for the year cut to about 14 Mt, from about 24 Mt, reflecting the diversified miner’s plans to spin off its thermal coal operations in South Africa.

 () identified an electro-magnetic anomaly in Target Area A in the Hukuntsi section of the company’s Kalahari Suture Zone project in Botswana.

 (LON:BHP, ASX:BHP) said total iron ore production grew 4% to 188 million tonnes (Mt) in the nine months to end March 2021, helped by record output at Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) and expects volumes for the year to come in at the upper half of the 244 Mt to 253 Mt guidance range.

 () said its copper production and costs in the first quarter were in line with guidance as it reported a 5.7% decline in output due to anticipated lower grades at its Los Pelambres mine. The Chilean miner produced 183,000 tonnes of copper in the first quarter and conditionally retained its full-year guidance of 730-760,000 tonnes.

 PLC () said it has opened its second mine in Madagascar at the Vatomina project, where it remains on track to start commissioning the first 9,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) processing plant in the second quarter.

 () said the government of Azerbaijan has approved the first of two five-year extensions of the production sharing agreement for its Gedabek contract area.

Shanta Gold Ltd’s () gross debt of US$11.1mln (£8.0mln) has been reduced to US$1.4mln following the repurchase of all outstanding convertible loan notes and early repayment of an Exim loan facility, the East Africa-focused gold producer said in a first-quarter update.

 PLC (LON:CMRS) said a phase 2 drill programme has been approved for the Troulli project to broadly define the limits of the gold mineralisation and to drill deeper into the Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) deposit. 

 () noted a significant increase in indicated resources at the Lake Rebecca gold project in Western Australia.  (), owner of the project, said indicated resources had jumped 50% from the maiden JORC estimate last February to 815,000 ounces of gold. 

 () reported additional high-grade lithium pegmatite drill intersections, including multiple drill intersections over 2% lithium oxide, at new targets adjacent to the Ewoyaa lithium project in Ghana.

Landore Resources Limited () has reported another bonanza gold intersection from its drilling programme at the BAM Deposit, Junior Lake, Ontario

‘s () gold production slumped 49% in the first quarter mainly due to a previously flagged issue with a lack of third-party concentrates. Total gold production sank to 95,600 ounces, from 186,200 ounces in the year-earlier quarter

BlueRock Diamonds PLC () reported higher production, grades and prices from its Kareevlei diamond mine in South Africa in the first quarter.

 () has subscribed for just over seven million shares in  () at an issue price of A$0.042 per share, for a total consideration of approximately A$300,000.

 () announced first-quarter net income of A$4.8mln (£2.7mln) from its flagship Hellyer mine in