Southern Silver expands resource at Cerro Las Minitas in Mexico
Southern Silver Exploration (TSXV: SSV) has posted a slight resource increase at its Cerro Las Minitas project in Mexico that sent its shares up 9.4%. The overall resource at the…
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Rupert Resources reports more high-grade gold from far-north Finland
Rupert Resources (TSX: RUP) says strong drill results may expand the Ikkari gold project in northern Finland. The Toronto-based company plans to further upgrade areas of inferred resources this year…
E3 Lithium expands resource of Bashaw brine, Canada’s largest
E3 Lithium (TSXV: ETL; US-OTC: EEMMF) says its latest resource upgrade makes Alberta’s Bashaw district, Canada’s largest brine project, a contender among the world’s biggest battery metal suppliers. The sprawling…
Thor Explorations more than doubles resource at Senegal gold project
New figures showing more than twice the potential gold in Thor Explorations‘ (TSXV: THX; LSE: THX) Douta project in Senegal means “greater confidence” it will be the company’s second mine…
Ivanhoe’s electro-pulse tech may expand Santa Cruz copper project in Arizona
Ivanhoe Electric (TSX: IE; NYSE-AM: IE) says visible copper in a drill hole suggested by the company’s new technology bodes well for adding high-margin ore to the resource at the…
The largest gold producer you’ve never heard of is growing
Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Co., the world’s fourth-largest gold company by output, plans to start another mine in its Uzbekistani homeland this year while intending to go public eventually with…
Nexa expands zinc resource, mine life of Aripuanã in Brazil
South America-focused Nexa Resources (NYSE: NEXA) expanded the resource at its Aripuanã zinc and copper mine in Mato Grosso state, Brazil by enough to extend the operation’s life by three…
Australian Burgundy buys Canada’s largest diamond operation, Arctic Canadian
Burgundy Diamond Mines (ASX: BDM) is buying debt-burdened Arctic Canadian, owner of Canada’s largest gem workings, the Ekati mine, to become one of the world’s biggest diamond operations. The purchase…
TNM Drill Down: Great Boulder leads week’s top gold assays with Side Well in Australia
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the top gold assays of the past week. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by our sister company…
Drilling extends Global Lithium’s Manna deposit in Australia
Assays from Global Lithium Resources’ (ASX: GL1) Manna lithium project in Western Australia show a large-scale pegmatite system that could extend the proposed mine’s decade-long life, analysts say. A new…
Ex-Harper minister’s First Phosphate drills rich results in Quebec
First Phosphate (CSE: PHOS), headed by former environment minister Peter Kent, says the first drill results from its Bègin-Lamarche property in Quebec show multiple high-grade layers of the fertilizer and…
Ottawa wants to shorten mine approval times by a third
Canada is aiming to cut four to five years off the time it takes for mining project approval, mainly by syncing federal and provincial requirements, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson…