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McEwen Mining's Los Azules porphyry copper project in San Juan, Argentina near the Chilean border. Credit: McEwen Mining.

McEwen grows Los Azules copper count

VANCOUVER — With 10 drill holes, McEwen Mining (MUX-T, MUX-N) has boosted the copper resource at its Los Azules project in Argentina by 20% compared to the last estimate just eight months ago, and the huge deposit remains open in every…


Equipment at Quest Rare Minerals' pilot plant in Mississauga, Ontario. Source: Quest Rare Minerals

Quest fires up mini-pilot plant for Strange Lake

Quest Rare Minerals (QRM-T, QRM-X), which owns the Strange Lake rare earth deposit in northern Quebec, recently held a tour of its mini-pilot plant at Process Research Ortech in Mississauga, Ont., where it’s testing the…



Northcliff goes north on strong economics at Sisson

Northcliff Resources (NCF-T) has shone a spotlight on its Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick, with a feasibility study confirming it could economically mine the deposit for 27 years. 


Shaking it up at Klondex

Last June Klondex Mines (KDX-T) replaced its board with a new slate of directors and in September hired Paul Huet as its chief executive, a mine engineer and expert in narrow vein gold mining best known for building and permitting Great Basin…



The historic pit at Meadow Bay Gold's Atlanta gold project in Lincoln County, Nevada. Source: Meadow Bay Gold

Meadow Bay doubles Atlanta gold resource

VANCOUVER — Shareholders of Meadow Bay Gold (MAY-T) enjoyed a share price jump after the Vancouver-based explorer doubled resources at its wholly owned Atlanta gold-silver project in Lincoln County, Nev.




The camp that supports the Fire Lake North project. Source: Champion Iron Mines

Positive prefeasibility fails to stop Champion Iron’s slide

VANCOUVER – A preliminary feasibility study concluded the East and West deposits at Champion Iron Mines’ (CHM-T) Consolidated Fire Lake North project could produce 9.3 million tonnes of concentrate grading 66% iron for almost 20 years,…


Inside Quest's mini-pilot plant at Ortech.

Quest fires up mini-pilot plant for Strange Lake

Quest Rare Minerals (QRM-T, QRM-X), which owns the Strange Lake rare earth deposit in northern Quebec, recently held a tour of its mini-pilot plant at Process Research Ortech in Mississauga, Ont., where it’s testing the solvent…


Rocks showing carbonatite intrusion with abundant fluorite from Namibia Rare Earths' Lofdal project. Source: Namibia Rare Earths

Namibia Rare Earths finds more heavies

Between 2005 and 2008 Namibia Rare Earths (NRE-T, NMREF-O) was focused on exploring for gold and copper mineralization in northwestern Namibia, about 450 kilometres northwest of the capital city of Windhoek.


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