Element 29 drills record 1.5-km Elida interval
Element 29 Resources (TSXV: ECU; US-OTC: EMTRF) drilled the longest mineralized interval yet at its Elida copper project in Peru, extending the porphyry system far below the current resource. Hole…
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Rule Symposium Video: BHP funding drives Mundoro’s Serbia copper hunt
Mundoro Capital (TSXV: MUN; US-OTC: MUNMF) plans to steer BHP (NYSE, LSE, ASX: BHP) -funded drilling toward the untested core of a copper-gold porphyry system at Central Timok in Serbia….
Fitzroy builds case for near-term Chile copper mine
Fitzroy Minerals (TSXV: FTZ; US-OTC: FTZFF) has extended broad, shallow copper mineralization along the Tenorita trend at its Buen Retiro project in Chile as it advances towards an initial resource…
Japan finds heavy rare earths dominate seabed deposit
Deep-sea samples strengthen Japan’s bid to reduce dependence on Chinese supplies of critical minerals.
Rule Symposium Video: Hemlo targets 20-year mine life
Hemlo Mining (TSX: HMMC; US-OTC: HMMCF) plans to keep its namesake northwestern Ontario gold mine running for about 20 more years by raising output and filling a mill operating at…
Laramide sees $741M value for uranium mine
An updated study for Laramide Resources’ (TSX, ASX: LAM; US-OTC: LMRXF) proposed Westmoreland uranium mine in Australia values the project at about $741 million (C$1.04 billion) – almost twice the…
Canada Nickel’s ninth resource lifts holdings to 4.3B tonnes in Timmins district
An updated resource for Canada Nickel’s (TSXV: CNC) Deloro project adds 1.55 million global contained tonnes of nickel while an initial resource for Nesbitt adds 410,000 contained tonnes, its ninth…
McFarlane Lake drills long gold intercepts as MRE nears
New drilling by McFarlane Lake Mining (CSE: MLM; US-OTC: MLMLF) at its main Juby gold project in northeastern Ontario has continued to expand the scale of the property’s gold system…
Equinox-Orla get OK to create No. 2 Canada gold miner
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) (NYSE: EQX) and Orla Mining (TSX: OLA) (NYSE: ORLA) have secured shareholder approval for their $18.5 billion merger, creating Canada’s second-largest gold producer with expected annual…
Coeur doubles Mexico exploration budget to $158M
Coeur Mining (TSX, NYSE: CDE) plans to spend twice as much this year drilling in Mexico after reporting high-grade assays from its Palmarejo operation in Chihuahua state. The stock rose….
Gladiator’s Cub assays highlight historical copper belt
Recent assays from step out drilling at Gladiator Metals’ (TSXV: GLAD; US-OTC: GDTRF) Whitehorse project in Yukon show the Cub East discovery is a developing high-grade copper-gold-silver centre inside the…
Getchell Gold sees $905M value for Fondaway Canyon
Getchell Gold (CSE: GTCH; US-OTC: GGLDF) says a revised preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its proposed Fondaway Canyon open-pit gold mine in Nevada has boosted the project’s value by 67%…