TNM Drill Down: Mayfair near Timmins tops gold assays for June 19-23
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 data provider…
Articles by Colin McClelland
Site visit: Alamos Gold targets low-cost output title by 2026 after billion-dollar upgrade
Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) is spending about a billion dollars to become the lowest-cost producer in Canada within three years. The target is US$576 per oz. all-in sustaining…
Mining deal-making declines, but Beaty and others see opportunities
As the value of mining industry mergers and acquisitions falls from last year’s high, some investors see divergent trends moderating conditions. They say share prices are reasonable or low for…
Aston sees future in Arctic copper by dropping local processing in favour of ore sorting
Aston Bay Holdings (TSXV: BAY; US-OTC: ATBHF) and American West Metals (ASX: AW1) are betting on new methods to prove the economics of a copper project farther north in Canada’s…
Arizona Metals probes copper-gold deposit at decades dormant Kay Mine
Arizona Metals (TSX: AMC; US-OTC: AZMCF) says its latest drill results show the potential to expand the old Kay Mine copper-gold deposit in Arizona, which hasn’t been mined in almost…
Ero Copper expands into nickel at Caraíba in Brazil, plans to double copper output
Brazil-focused Ero Copper (TSX: ERO; NYSE: ERO) is reporting new drill results for nickel targets at Caraíba as it advances the Tucumã project to double the company’s copper output by…
Abcourt plans low-cost, rapid rousing of Sleeping Giant gold mine in Quebec
Abcourt Mines (TSXV: ABI) says it can revive the Sleeping Giant gold mine in Quebec after about $40 million in capital costs, pleasing analysts. The former underground mine in…
Angus Gold beats historical assays at Golden Sky project in northern Ontario
Angus Gold (TSXV: GUS; US-OTC: ANGVF) says new drill results “significantly” improve on historical assays in some areas of the Dorset zone of its Golden Sky project in northern Ontario….
GMS Video: How Power Nickel combines new tech, Quebec financing to snag a major’s interest
Terry Lynch, CEO of Power Nickel, says he’s using novel sonar technology to update a resource estimate in September at the Nisk project in Quebec, but a major player may…
GMS Video: Why asking ‘why you do’ is more important than ‘what you do’
The Northern Miner’s Staff Writer Blair McBride interviews George Hemingway, managing partner at New York-based consultant Stratalis, during the Global Mining Symposium in Toronto on May 25. Hemingway focuses on…
GMS: Quebec touts millions of government funding for battery metal projects
Quebec is becoming known for mining project funding that hands out several hundred million dollars a year and promotes the province as a battery metals hotspot. The province’s funding structure…
Labour costs will soon beat oil as mine’s biggest expense, new data indicate
Labour costs are replacing oil products as a mine’s most expensive item as inflation impacts operating expenses more than capital costs, new reports show. Wages for some copper and gold…