Harte Gold sends first ore to Barrick’s Hemlo mill
Harte Gold (TSX: HRT; US-OTC: HRTFF) has shipped the first ore from a 70,000-tonne, bulk-sample mining program to Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) Hemlo mill on Lake Superior’s North…
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Empire Rock to investigate lithium brine in Alberta gas fields
Lisa Chapman hopes lithium production in the oil patch will help diversify Alberta’s economy. The president and CEO of Empire Rock Minerals (TSXV: EPR) is steering the junior explorer into…
Cordoba, HPX move San Matias forward
When Mario Stifano found himself alone in an elevator with mine-finder Robert Friedland at the end of a long day of presentations at the BMO Conference, the stars just seemed…
US stocks slip, April 4-8
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.2% to 17,576.96 and the S&P 500 Index dropped 1.2% to 2,047.60. Gold moved in the opposite direction. The New York spot price rose…
Canadian Zinc pushes Prairie Creek
That mines and mining projects get recycled from one company to the next isn’t new — it happens all the time. What makes the Prairie Creek mine a little different…
Falco to move Horne 5 from PEA straight to feasibility
Luc Lessard has worked on 11 open-pit and underground mine builds during his career as a mining engineer, including the Canadian Malartic gold mine, but he isn’t finished yet. The…
Trevali nears commercial production at Caribou
Pure-play zinc producer Trevali Mining (TSX: TV; US-OTC: TREVF) expects to reach commercial production at its second zinc mine before July. The company is commissioning its 3,000-tonne-per-day Caribou underground operation…
US markets finish higher, March 28-April 1
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s remarks last week that the central bank should take a “cautious” approach to raising interest rates, buoyed markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose…
Stornoway adds to mine life at Renard
A new mine plan that incorporates revisions to mineral resource estimates completed in 2013 and 2015 adds three additional years of production to Stornoway Diamond Corp.’s (TSX: SWY) Renard project, which will become…
OceanaGold Macquarie’s top intermediate producer
In the first week of March, Macquarie Securities analyst Michael Gray visited OceanaGold’s (TSX: OGC) Haile gold project in South Carolina, which the company added to its portfolio last year…
Denison and Friedland’s GoviEx to combine African uranium assets
Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-MKT: DNN) has taken the final step that will help it focus on its uranium assets in Canada’s Athabasca basin and in particular its flagship Wheeler…
RTG completes feasibility on Mabilo in the Philippines
RTG Mining (TSX: RTG; ASX: RTG) has a good track record in the Philippines. The junior is led by the previous management team of CGA Mining, which developed the Masbate…