Metals & Mining

Verdera Energy Announces Closing of Qualifying Transaction

February 20, 2026 2:15 PM

Verdera Energy Corp. (TSXV:V) ("Verdera" or the "Company") (formerly POCML 7 Inc). announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding securities of Verdera Energy Corp. (to be renamed Verdera Energy Holdings Inc.) (the "Target"). The transaction constitutes the Qualifying Transaction of the Company under the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV"). In addition, the Company...

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Continental Lithium Strengthens Critical Minerals Platform with Production Expansion and Advancing Lithium JV

February 20, 2026 9:00 AM

Continental Lithium Limited ("Continental," or the "Company"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Continental Critical Minerals, Inc., a leading mining and trading company out of Nigeria focused on the exploration, mining, trading, and exporting of solid mineral ores, including lithium, tin, columbite-tantalite, zircon sand (brown), and monazite to the U.S., Europe, and Asia, today announced the initiation of commissioning activities at its expanded...

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ESGold Launches 70 km2 District-Scale ANT Survey at Montauban Following 3D Model Identifying Deep, Expanding 2 km Mineralized Corridor

February 20, 2026 7:30 AM

ESGold Corp. (CSE:ESAU)(OTCQB:ESAUF)(FSE:Z7D) ("ESGold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the commencement of a second-phase Ambient Noise Tomography ("ANT") survey covering approximately 70 square kilometres (the "Program") at its Montauban Gold-Silver Project in Québec. The expanded ANT survey commenced on February 17, 2026, and the Program represents the most extensive geological investigation conducted across the Montauban property in...

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Temas Commences Valuable Re-Assay Program at La Blache

February 20, 2026 7:30 AM

Re-Assaying up to 36,614m of historic drilling to accelerate development and save Temas approximately $40 million in future drilling costs Highlights Preliminary indications from historical data review suggest potential for gallium, scandium and chromium at La Blache. 181 historic holes (36,614m) will be re-evaluated for iron, titanium, vanadium, chromium, gallium, scandium and other Rare Earth Elements ("REE") potential. Re-utilising historic...

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SLAM Increases Private Placement To $2,034,000

February 20, 2026 7:23 AM

SLAM Exploration Ltd. (TSXV:SXL) ("SLAM" or the "Company")is pleased to report that due to increased investor demand, the non-brokered private placement previously announced on February 18, 2026 (the "Offering") has been increased to 22,600,000 units (the "Units") issued at a price of $0.09 per Unit for gross proceeds of up to $2,034,000. The Offering will consist of: Up to 18,000,000 flow-through CMETC units of the Company (each, a "FT CMETC...

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Faraday Copper Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire BHP's San Manuel Property in Arizona, Creating a Multi-Asset Copper District in the USA

February 20, 2026 7:05 AM

Faraday Copper Corp. ("Faraday") (TSX:FDY)(OTCQX:CPPKF) is pleased to announce it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent ("LOI") with a wholly owned subsidiary of BHP Group Limited ("BHP") in respect of a proposed transaction whereby Faraday would acquire from BHP the San Manuel property ("San Manuel"), adjacent to Faraday's Copper Creek project ("Copper Creek"), located in Arizona, USA (Figure 1). Under the terms of the LOI, Faraday...

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Rocky Shore Gold Closes First Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement

February 20, 2026 7:00 AM

Rocky Shore Gold Ltd. ("Rocky Shore" or the "Company") (CSE:RSG) is pleased to announce that it has closed the first tranche (the "First Tranche") of its previously announced non-brokered private placement. Under the First Tranche, the Company raised aggregate gross proceeds of approximately C$4,798,162 and issued an aggregate of 27,418,071 units ("Units") at a price of $0.175 per Unit, with each Unit comprised of one common share of the Company...

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BWR Exploration Inc. And Electro Metals and Mining Inc. Provide Financing and Transaction Update

February 19, 2026 7:30 PM

BWR Exploration Inc. (TSXV:BWR) ("BWR") and Electro Metals and Mining Inc. ("Electro") (together, the "Companies") are pleased to provide an update on their previously announced non-brokered private placement financing. Further to the Companies' press release dated November 25, 2025, Electro has issued 3,387,500 hard dollar units at a price of $0.20 per Unit, and 991,150 critical mineral flow-through units at a price of $0.26 per FT Unit, for...

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CoTec Holdings Corp. Publishes Updated Corporate Presentation

February 19, 2026 6:30 PM

CoTec Holdings Corp. (TSXV:CTH)(OTCQB:CTHCF) ("CoTec" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the publication of its updated February 2026 corporate presentation, available on the Company's website at www.cotec.ca. The updated presentation reflects the continued progress of the Company's growth strategy with recent project-level advancements across its asset portfolio, including previously announced feasibility studies, expansion concept...

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Galway Metals Announces Filing of NI 43-101 Technical Report for Previously Announced Estrades Preliminary Economic Assessment

February 19, 2026 5:00 PM

Galway Metals Inc. (TSXV:GWM) ("Galway Metals" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has filed on SEDAR+ a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") technical report for Galway's 100% owned Estrades Project ("Estrades") located in the northern Abitibi of Western Quebec. The independent technical report (the "Report") prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI...

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Fortitude Gold Announces 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

February 19, 2026 4:15 PM

Fortitude Gold Corp. (OTCQB:FTCO) (the "Company") announced today that it will hold its annual meeting of shareholders in person at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST) on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at the SpringHill Suites Colorado Springs Downtown, 402 South Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903. Fortitude Gold is a gold producer, developer, and explorer with operations in Nevada, U.S.A. offering investors exposure to both gold...

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Inventus Announces Resignation of Investor Relations Consultant

February 19, 2026 2:20 PM

Inventus Mining Corp. (TSXV:IVS) ("Inventus" or the "Company") announces that Mr. Eduardo (Ed) Baer has resigned from his role as Investor Relations consultant effective February 18, 2026. The Company thanks Mr. Baer for his contributions and wishes him success in his future endeavors. In accordance with the Company's Stock Option Plan, the unvested portion of Mr. Baer's stock options has been cancelled, and the vested portion will expire 30...

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A Year in Values: How Covia Brought Its Mission to Life in 2025

February 19, 2026 10:45 AM

Being a leading provider of high-performance mineral and material solutions goes beyond delivering quality products. Everything we do is in support of our core mission and vision that guides our approach as an organization: Our Mission: Responsibly provide minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. Our Vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable our customers'...

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Tocvan Announces Closing of Bought Deal Financing for $10 Million

February 19, 2026 9:30 AM

Tocvan Ventures Corp. (CSE:TOC)(OTCQB:TCVNF)(WKN:TV3/A2PE64) ("Tocvan" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the closing of its previously announced "bought deal" private placement, with Stifel Canada (the "Underwriter") as sole underwriter and bookrunner, pursuant to which the Underwriter purchased 10,005,000 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of $1.00 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $10,005,000, which included the full...

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Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc: Zimbabwe Mining Forum: Perception vs Reality Highlights Video

February 19, 2026 9:28 AM

Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc ("Caledonia" or "the Company") was delighted to host the Zimbabwe Mining Forum on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at the Radisson Collection Hotel Waterfront in Cape Town, bringing together around 150 mining professionals, investors, and government officials for a breakfast discussion on the country's mining sector. The event, held on the sidelines of the 2026 Investing in Africa Mining Indaba, featured a keynote...

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Infield Minerals Announces Letter of Intent for an Option to Acquire the Detroit Sediment-Hosted Gold Property in Utah

February 19, 2026 9:20 AM

Infield Minerals Corp. (TSX-V:IN) ("Infield" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent dated February 19, 2026 (the "LOI"), to enter into an option agreement to acquire 100% interest in the Detroit sediment-hosted gold property ("Detroit" or the "Property") in Utah. "We are excited to expand our project portfolio in Utah with a second sediment-hosted gold property that has demonstrated potential...

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Rio Grande Resources Reports Gold up to 41.2 g/t and Silver up to 1,435 g/t at Its Winston Project, New Mexico

February 19, 2026 8:30 AM

Rio Grande Resources Ltd. (CSE:RGR)(OTCQB:RGRLF) ("Rio Grande" or the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from its December 2025 surface sampling campaign (see News Release, December 22, 2025) carried out by Dahrouge Geological Consulting USA Ltd. ("Dahrouge") at the Winston Gold-Silver Project (the "Winston Project" or the "Project") located in the Black Range Mountains of Sierra County, New Mexico. The program returned results...

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Amarc Confirms Discovery of Third New Porphyry Copper-Gold System at JOY

February 19, 2026 7:45 AM

Amarc Resources Ltd. ("Amarc" or the "Company") (TSXV:AHR)(OTCQB:AXREF) is pleased to announce assay results from the TWINS Discovery located approximately 17 km to southeast of the AuRORA Deposit. TWINS is the third discovery of a new copper-gold ("Cu-Au") porphyry system at the JOY District (see Amarc release March 2, 2023). With the advancement of the AuRORA Cu-Au-Ag Deposit and the TWINS and CANYON Discoveries, along with the historical PINE...

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High Tide Resources Announces Upsize to Private Placement

February 19, 2026 7:30 AM

High Tide Resources Corp. ("High Tide Resources" or the "Company") (CSE:HTRC) announces today that it is amending certain terms of its non-brokered private placement offering (the "LIFE Offering") previously announced on February 5, 2025, pursuant to which the Company intends to issue any combination of: (i) units of the Company (the "LIFE HD Units") at a price of $0.20 per LIFE HD Unit, and (ii) charity flow-through units of the Company (the...

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Sterling Metals Commences 2026 Drill Campaign at Soo Copper, Ontario

February 19, 2026 7:30 AM

Sterling Metals Corp. (TSXV:SAG)(OTCQB:SAGGF) ("Sterling" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the commencement of its 2026 drill campaign at the Soo Copper Project ("Soo Copper" or the "Project") located a 1-hour drive north of Sault Ste Marie, near Batchawana Bay, Ontario. The program is planned for a minimum of 20,000 metres with the winter portion of the program aimed at testing the larger scale targets along strike and below the MEPS...

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