Galleon Gold begins engineering at West Cache in Ontario
Galleon Gold (TSXV: GGO) is making progress in permitting of a bulk sample and other activities at its 100% owned West Cache gold project in Timmins, Ont., with the company…
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Benchmark PEA projects $493M capex for 12-year open pit mine at Lawyers
Benchmark Metals (TSXV: BNCH; OTC: BNCHF) has completed a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its flagship Lawyers gold-silver project that presents a robust open pit mining scenario with attractive economics…
Magna Mining to acquire Sudbury nickel-copper-PGE assets in ‘transformational’ deal
Magna Mining (TSXV: NICU) has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire Lonmin Canada (Loncan), whose assets include the Denison project and the past-producing Crean Hill nickel-copper-PGE (platinum…
VIDEO: VMS deposits present exciting new zinc-copper-gold discovery opportunities in Mexico
Volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits have been a core source of copper, zinc and sometimes gold mineralization for over 150 years and remain the mainstay of some major mining camps…
Taseko granted draft permit for Florence copper project in Arizona
Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-AM: TGB; LSE: TKO) has scored a small, but key win in the long-dragged permitting process for its Florence copper project in Arizona as the U.S….
Giga Metals, Mitsubishi to jointly develop Turnagain nickel deposit in BC
Junior Giga Metals (TSXV: GIGA) and global trading and investment firm Mitsubishi Corp. agreed on Monday to form a joint venture company, Hard Creek Nickel Corp., to develop the Turnagain…
Turquoise Hill rejects Rio Tinto’s US$2.7B takeover offer
Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) has rejected majority shareholder Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) bid to buy the 49% stake it doesn’t already own in…
Prismo prepares to drill-test Palos Verdes near-surface high-grade shoot
Prismo Metals (CSE: PRIZ) is preparing to drill-test an important near-surface target at its flagship Palos Verdes gold project in Sinaloa state, Mexico, after receiving an extension to its environmental…
SolGold reshuffles C-suite as it ramps up Cascabel
Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) has announced a round of management changes, with newly appointed chief financial officer Ayten Saridas stepping down after only six weeks in the job….
Pure Gold cuts Red Lake resource base by 20%
Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM) has released an updated mineral resource estimate for its namesake operation in Ontario’s Red Lake gold camp, reporting 20% fewer ounces in the resource categories….
St Barbara staves off Touquoy suspension with tailings dam raise approval
St Barbara (ASX: SBM) has released its fiscal 2023 guidance after receiving approval of a tailings raise for its Touquoy gold mine in Nova Scotia. The Australian miner’s consolidated gold…
K92 reports 10.8M oz gold-equivalent resource for Blue Lake porphyry, near its Kainantu mine
K92 Mining (TSX: KNT) has released a first resource for its Blue Lake gold porphyry project, only 4 km southwest of its Kainantu mine in Papua New Guinea. Inferred resources total…