Copper

Workers on a jumbo in Scorpio Mining's Nuestra Senora silver-zinc-copper-lead mine in Sinaloa, Mexico.  Credit: Scorpio Mining

Scorpio and US Silver & Gold prepare to merge

VANCOUVER — Scorpio Mining (TSX: SPM; US-OTC: SMNPF) and U.S. Silver & Gold (TSX: USA; US-OTC: USGIF) plan to join their businesses in a merger of equals that could create a leading junior silver producer in the Americas.



Trucks hauling material at Thompson Creek Metals' Mt. Milligan copper-gold mine in northern B.C. Photo by The Northern Miner

Thompson Creek piles up cash in Q3

Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.


Drill core from Foran Mining's flagship McIlvenna Bay polymetallic project.  Credit: Foran Mining

Foran’s positive PEA at McIlvenna Bay

Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) has touched a milestone at its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in east-central Saskatchewan, with the completion of a promising preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanogenic massive…


Agnico Eagle Mines and Yamana Gold's Canadian Malartic gold mine in Quebec. Osisko Gold Royalties holds a 5% net smelter return royalty on the mine. Credit: Agnico Eagle Mines

Osisko Gold Royalties comes out strong

VANCOUVER — Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; US-OTC: OKSKF) is one to watch in the realm of corporate finance. The company is a spin-out from Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) and Yamana Gold’s (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY)…



Exploration director Sonny Bernales in front of an outcropping gold-silver-copper skarn at the El Dorado target, part of Source Exploration's Las Minas project in Mexico. Credit: Source Exploration

Source chases district-scale skarn at Las Minas

VANCOUVER — Roughly 270 km east of Mexico City in the state of Veracruz, junior Source Exploration (TSXV: SOP) is thinking big. Earlier this year the company expanded a discovery at its property package in the historic Las Minas…


NGEx Resources' Los Helados copper-gold-silver project in Chile.  Credit: NGEx Resources

NGEx’s Los Helados PEA comes with hefty capex

VANCOUVER — There’s a lot of low-grade copper at NGEx Resources’ (TSX: NGQ; US-OTC: NGQRF) Los Helados project, situated 77 km northwest of Copiapo, Chile. But a newly released preliminary economic assessment (PEA) calls into…



Trenching at Puma Exploration's Brunswick North gold-silver-lead-zinc project in New Brunswick. Credit: Puma Exploration

Puma on the prowl near historic Brunswick mine

Shares of Puma Exploration (TSXV: PUM; US-OTC: PUXPF) traded higher after the junior announced it  has acquired a 6.5 sq. km property with a newly discovered volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) zone just 6 km north of the No. 12 orebody at…


ICSG forecasts copper surplus in 2015

After five years in a row of deficits, the copper market should show a production surplus in 2015, according to The International Copper Study Group.


Lonmin doubles down on Wallbridge JVs in Sudbury

VANCOUVER — U.K.-based platinum group metals (PGM) outfit Lonmin (LSE: LMI; US-OTC: LNMIY) remains bullish on the Sudbury basin and its expansive joint venture with junior Wallbridge Mining (TSX: WM; US-OTC: WLBMF). On Sept. 20…


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