Evolution to buy Carnaby in $149M copper-gold deal
Evolution Mining (ASX: EVN) agreed to buy Carnaby Resources (ASX: CNB) in an all-stock deal valued at about A$213 million (US$149 million) that would give the Australian gold producer a…
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Rule Symposium Video: Peru explorers face a permit premium, says Mazumdar
Investors should favour Peru explorers that already hold drill permits because approvals can stall strong copper and gold prospects for years, Exploration Insights newsletter editor and analyst Joe Mazumdar said…
Quebec puts Troilus on permit fast track
Quebec has selected Troilus Mining’s (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) namesake gold-copper project for a new service aimed at cutting mine permitting delays. Quebec launched Filon on June 2 for advanced…
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…
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…
Panama mulls state miner to revive Cobre Panama
Panama is considering creating a government mining company to partner with First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) in a move that could reopen the shuttered Cobre Panama copper mine, Reuters reported…
Southern Copper maps route to over 1M tonnes by 2029
Southern Copper (NYSE: SCCO) expects copper production to surpass one million tonnes by 2029 as its flagship Tia Maria project nears the halfway mark, reinforcing the miner’s confidence in a…
AbraSilver raises $45M for Diablillos in Argentina
AbraSilver Resource (TSX: ABRA; US-OTC: ABBRF) is raising $45 million (US$32 million) through a bought-deal share offering to fund early works at its Diablillos silver-gold project in Argentina as it…
Rule Symposium Video: Hodge sounds alarm on junior ‘lifestyle’ stocks
Investors should seek companies whose managers own meaningful stakes and have committed backers able to fund more than one drill program, Digest Publishing co-founder and mining guru Nick Hodge said….
Podcast: South32’s Pat Risner on FAST-41, social licence and mining in the USA
This week’s episode features Pat Risner, President of South32 Hermosa, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli about the company’s Hermosa project in Arizona. Risner discusses how the project has benefited…
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…