Rio Tinto has partnered with Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM) to advance the Winu copper-gold project located in Western Australia.

Portugal has announced plans to issue international tender for lithium prospecting licenses next year, a process initially set for 2018.

Rio Tinto has concluded the sale of its Lake MacLeod salt and gypsum operation in Western Australia to Leichhardt Industrials Group for $243m.

Upstream mining and exploration company Madison Metals has agreed to acquire what it believes to be one of Canada’s largest undeveloped antimony deposits in a Hemlo gold camp setting in Ontario.

Blue Sky Uranium has entered a definitive earn-in agreement with Abatare Spain (COAM) and ACI Capital to sell stake in the Ivana uranium-vanadium deposit in Rio Negro, Argentina.