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Edgewater nabs $120M for Corcoesto in Spain

Edgewater ­Exploration (EDW-V) has secured in principle a $120-million debt financing for its flagship Corcoesto gold project in Spain as it moves it towards ­production.The company has entered into a mandate letter with Credit Suisse…


La Mancha Resources' Ity open-pit gold mine in western Cte d'Ivoire. Photo by La Mancha Resources

La Mancha extends gold strike at Ity

International gold producer La Mancha Resources (LMA-T) unveiled good news at its Ity mine in Côte d’Ivoire in June, when the company released drill results that indicate gold mineralization beyond the operation’s in-pit…


Editorial: Putting the Lie in Libor

Have you ever felt the whole game was rigged? Well, there’s some justification for that feeling, as the month of June closed out with British banking giant Barclays doing the perp walk and agreeing to pay out a relatively miniscule US$453…


The Haileybury School of Mines campus today at Northern College. Photo by Haileybury School of Mines

Haileybury School of Mines celebrates centenary

More than 200 alumni, faculty and friends gathered for a June weekend to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the Haileybury School of Mines (HSM), including luminaries such as Mining Technologies International president and CEO Bob…


GTA Resources vice-president of exploration Robert Duess inspects a sample from the Caly vein at the Northshore gold project in Ontario. Photo by GTA Resources

GTA gets the grade north of Superior

GTA Resources (GTA-V) caught the market’s attention in one fell swoop earlier this year with drill results from its aptly named Northshore gold project on the north shore of Lake Superior.The intercept spanned 150 metres grading 3.21…


Sandspring soldiers on at Toroparu in Guyana

It has been a rough year for junior explorer Sandspring Resources (SSP-V), with its share price plummeting 67%, or $1.60, to lows of 57¢ in May. The company has suffered from questions concerning the economics of its low-grade,…


Atico looks to repeat Fortuna’s success

Recently listed Atico Mining (ATY-V) has joined the rush of companies exploring for gold in Colombia, but the company plans to set itself apart with its unique management team and strategy.The team includes many of the people behind the success…



New Gold starts up New Afton in BC

New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-N) brings online a fourth mine with the timely start up of its New Afton gold-copper mine, near Kamloops, B.C.  


McEwen doubles resource at Los Azules

Indicated resources have more than doubled to 4.6 billion pounds of copper at McEwen Mining’s (MUX-T, MUX-N) Los Azules project in Argentina, while inferred resources have jumped 4% to 10.8 billion pounds of copper.


Vale secures license for Serra Sul mega development

VANCOUVER — Brazilian mining giant Vale SA (VALE-N) has received its preliminary environmental license for what will be the world’s largest iron-ore project. Serra Sul, or Carajas S11D, is a US$20-billion expansion initiative at the…



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