Armadale Capital, an AIM quoted investment group focused on natural resource projects in Africa, has provided results from the met test work programme completed as part of the ongoing definitive feasibility study (DFS) at the Mahenge Liandu graphite project in south-east Tanzania, which is at the heart of the group’s transformation from explorer to emerging producer.

Perseus Mining Limited (ASX/TSX: PRU) says, as of today, there have been no cases of Covid-19 infections reported by any of Perseus’s employees or contractors operating at its West African gold mines, Edikan and Sissingué, or at the development site of its third mine, Yaouré, nor by residents of host communities located adjacent to those operations. Perseus’s gold production and its project development activities have not been materially impacted at this time.

Safer tailings storage facilities (TSFs) – or tailings dams – can be achieved when mine owners, contractors and engineering consultants work closely together, according to SRK Consulting senior geotechnical engineer Linda Spies.

In full support of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of the state of national disaster to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, fast-growing mining investment company Menar has suspended all mining operations.

Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:GOLD)(TSX:ABX) says emergency response plans for dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic have been stepped up at all its sites and offices across the world.