Alexandria Minerals delineates high-grade targets in Val d’Or
Surface sampling and mapping of its 35-km-long Cadillac Break properties (Akasaba, Oramaque, Sabourin, Trivio,…
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First resource for La Mancha’s Hassai pit in Sudan
The Hassaï mine — made up of twelve open pits that have been mined since 1992 in the Red Sea Hills deser…
Oromin tables limp prefeasibility study for Sabodala
After three years of grassroots drilling at its Sabodala project in Senegal, Chet Idziszek’s Oromin Explorat…
Commentary: Ontario’s Far North Act would cause conflict, delay: OMA
The following is the second of two edited portions of the Ontario Mining Association’s submission to the Sta…
Barrick to raise more than $3.5 billion to eliminate gold hedges
As the price of gold surpassed the critical US$1,000 per oz. mark on Sept. 8, Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) anno…
Detour Gold projects US$844 million for open pit mine
Detour Gold (DGC-T) has finished a prefeasibility study for its Detour Lake Gold project in northeastern Ontar…
Commentary: OMA weighs in Ontario’s Bill 173
The following is an edited portion of the Ontario Mining Association’s submission to the Standing Committee …
Editorial: Gold cracks US$1,000 again
Gold’s day-long breach of the US$1,000-per-oz.-mark was the biggest news for gold bugs around the world on S…
Silver Wheaton to pay US$625M for Barrick silver stream
Vancouver – Having worked out another major silver stream contract, this time with Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N)…
Xstrata Copper feels pinch from Vale Inco nickel strike
While the masses have gone back to work and school after Labour Day, the last long weekend of summer will stre…
Esperanza Silver completes initial economic assessment of Cerro Jumil
Esperanza Silver’s (EPZ-V, ESPZF-O) 100%-owned Cerro Jumil project, an advanced open-pit heap-leach gold proje…
Investors anticipate Xstrata to make another run at Lonmin
Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) could be gearing up for another run at the world’s third largest platinum producer Lo…