‘Almost no surveillance’ of Eagle leach pad
Victoria Gold wasn’t paying enough attention to the Eagle mine heap leach pad before its catastrophic landslide in Yukon last year, an accident investigator says. The carelessness was a major…
Articles by Blair McBride
Indigenous-owned Minto doubles copper-gold
Venerable Ventures’ (TSXV: VLV.H) new resource for the old Minto mine in the Yukon has more than doubled contained copper and gold over the 2005 estimate as the owners create…
Luca logs high-grade gold, silver at Campo Morado
Drilling by Luca Mining (TSXV: LUCA; US-OTC: LUCMF) has returned results as high as 15.1 metres grading 5.35 grams gold per tonne, 187.5 grams silver, 0.31% copper, 8.39% zinc and…
Site visit: New Found Gold works to bring the mine to the community
GANDER, N.L. — There are just a handful of producing mines that sit near the Trans-Canada Highway across the country, and New Found Gold’s (TSXV: NFG, NYSE: NFGC) Queensway could be…
Infographic: Who controls rare earth processing?
MINING.COM and The Northern Miner chart refined rare earth magnet output through a geopolitical lens, segmenting the world into four “Spheres of Control”: the Chinese Sphere, the American Sphere, the…
Marimaca surges to 13-year high on copper hits in Chile
Marimaca Copper (TSX: MARI; ASX: MC2) shares soared to a new 13-year high Thursday on the release of copper sulphide drill results as high as 6 metres grading 12% copper…
Energy Fuels’ Pinyon Plain uranium output keeps rising
Production at Energy Fuels’ (TSX: EFR; NYSE: UUUU) Pinyon Plain mine in northern Arizona almost doubled in June from April, company totals show. Shares rose. Uranium oxide (U3O8) output at…
Group Eleven cuts best zinc-silver result yet at Ballywire
Group Eleven Resources’ (TSXV: ZNG; US-OTC: GRLVF) says it has cut the strongest intercept yet at its Ballywire target in southwest Ireland, with a highlight result of 39.7 metres grading…
Site visit: FireFly Metals seeks high-grade copper crown
BAIE VERTE, N.L. – Hundreds of metres underground inside a tunnel in northwest Newfoundland, and illuminated only by head lamps, is the precise area where FireFly Metals’ (ASX, TSX: FFM)…
NexMetals rises on strong copper-nickel hits
NexMetals Mining (TSXV: NEXM; US-OTC: PRMLD), fresh off its name change from Premium Resources, reported drill results as high as 13.5 metres grading 1.13% copper and 1.25% nickel at its…
Season’s first hole hits high grades for Sitka Gold
Sitka Gold’s (TSXV: SIG; US-OTC: SITKF) first completed hole of its summer drilling program cut highlight results as high as 73.2 metres grading 2.05 grams gold per tonne in the…
PDAC JV Video: Namib Minerals preps to reopen gold mines in Zimbabwe
Namib Minerals is working to expand and restart three gold mines in Zimbabwe to help fund its critical mineral ambitions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), CEO Ibrahima Tall…