West African gold miner Endeavour Mining, listed on the TSX, reports in its preliminary financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year 2019 that in FY-2019 it produced 651 koz of gold at an AISC of US$813/oz, achieving guidance for the seventh consecutive year. Production in Q4-2019 was 178 koz at an AISC of US$820/oz, remaining fairly flat over Q3-2019.

Robert Friedland and Yufeng ‘Miles’ Sun, Co-Chairmen of TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines, have announced that the company’s South African subsidiary, Ivanplats, is fast-tracking a feasibility study on a smaller-scale, early-stage development plan using Shaft 1 as a production shaft at its Platreef palladium, platinum, nickel, copper, gold and rhodium mining licence. The Platreef project is located on the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.

DRDGOLD, listed on the JSE and NYSE, has announced that its 38 % shareholder, Sibanye Gold Limited, trading as Sibanye-Stillwater, has exercised its option to acquire an additional 12 % interest in DRDGOLD.

Teranga Gold Corporation, listed on the TSX, has entered into a definitive agreement which will see it acquiring a 90 % interest in the Massawa gold project from a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corporation and its joint venture partner, Compagnie Sénégalaise de Transports Transatlantiques Afrique de l’Ouest SA (CSTTAO).

Cora Gold has received a maiden pit constrained Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) from independent consultants SRK Consulting (UK) for its Sanankoro gold project within the Yanfolila gold belt in southern Mali. The MRE has been prepared in accordance with the JORC 2012 Code. This is an initial step in determining the overall potential of Sanankoro, which has a 1-2 Moz Exploration Target within 100 m of surface.