Dynacor’s artisanal mining strategy pays dividends
Dynacor Gold Mines (TSX: DNG; US-OTC: DNGDF) is not your typical junior. The company buys ore from registered artisanal miners in Peru and processes it into doré at its Veta…
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PDAC 2018: Bankers on lessons learned, exploration, finance trends
Strategic private placements, private equity and joint-venture partnerships are playing a bigger role in financing exploration and development projects in the mining sector, a group of Canadian bankers agreed during…
PDAC 2018: Acoustic Zoom wins Goldcorp’s #DisruptMining
At a splashy event held at a warehouse-style Toronto nightclub, mining technology firm Acoustic Zoom took first place in the finale to Goldcorp’s (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) #DisruptMining 2018 competition,…
PDAC 2018: Ecuador mines minister hopes to eliminate windfall tax
Rebeca Illescas, Ecuador’s new minister of mines, says she hopes to persuade the government of President Lenin Moreno to abolish the windfall profits tax. “I’ve talked about this in Ecuador…
Adventus Zinc boosts resource at Curipamba
Since signing an earn-in agreement with Salazar Resources (TSXV: SRL) last September, Adventus Zinc (TSXV: ADZN) has updated the resource on its El Domo copper-gold-zinc deposit at the Curipamba project…
Agnico Eagle’s Sean Boyd is TNM’s Mining Person of the Year
As we look back at the career so far of Sean Boyd — Agnico Eagle Mines’ vice-chairman and CEO, and The Northern Miner’s Mining Person of the Year for 2017…
Newcrest takes 27% stake in Lundin Gold
Newcrest Mining (TSX: NCM), Australia’s largest-listed gold producer, is investing US$250 million for a 27.1% stake in Lundin Gold (TSX: LUG), a Canadian junior whose Fruta del Norte gold mine…
Canstar, Adventus and Altius to consolidate Buchans camp
Last year, Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM) acquired more than 500 sq. km in the historic Bathurst mining camp of New Brunswick to develop a multi-deposit zinc asset base that would…
Fission Uranium’s Triple R deposit continues to grow
Despite uranium prices at decade lows and three years of belt-tightening, Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) has increased the indicated resource at its Triple R deposit by 8% and the overall…
Probe Metals hikes resource at Val-d’Or East project
Probe Metals (TSXV: PRB; US-OTC: PROBF) has proved up more gold ounces and has greater confidence in its Val-d’Or East project after upgrading inferred ounces into the indicated category. An…
Premier plans ‘big year’ in Nevada
Having lopped off more than half of its debt last year and with over $100 million in the bank, Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG) is primed and ready for a…
Liberty Gold tables maiden resource for Goldstrike
Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD) has completed the first resource estimate on its flagship, wholly owned Goldstrike oxide gold project in southwestern Utah. The project lies near the Nevada border in…