Copper

Southern Copper's Tia Maria copper project in Peru. Credit: Southern Copper

Southern Copper rejects bribery accusations

In the latest drama unfolding at Southern Copper’s (NYSE: SCCO) embattled Tia Maria project in Peru, the company has dismissed allegations that a lawyer, who used to work for the company, tried to bribe protestors on behalf of the company.


Cordoba Minerals' San Matias project   in northern Colombia. Credit: Cordoba Minerals

Cordoba entices Friedland’s HPX to explore Colombia

VANCOUVER — It’s been over a year since Mario Stifano, president and CEO of Cordoba Minerals (TSXV: CDB; US-OTC: CDBMF) shared an elevator with international financer Robert Friedland and sparked the billionaire’s interest in…


Norman B. Keevil. Photo By Anthony Vaccaro

Norman B. Keevil: A lifetime of achievement at Teck

In 1979 The Northern Miner named Norman B. Keevil its Mining Man of the Year, citing the impressive string of mine constructions he presided over in the 1970s. Since winning that award Dr. Keevil went on to ensure Teck was part of some of the…



TSX slides, May 4-8

Poor jobs data and a decline in energy stocks after the New Democratic Party majority win in Alberta sent the S&P/TSX Composite Index down 1.1% to 15,170.02. The S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Index fell 2.8% to 805.08,…





Capstone Mining's  Minto mine in the Yukon.  Photo by Gwen Preston.

Capstone ends Q1 in the red

Copper producer Capstone Mining (TSX: CS; US-OTC: CSFFF) widens its loss in the first quarter of 2015 due to impairments at the Pinto Valley mine in Arizona and the Minto mine in the Yukon.  


A box cut under development at Sirius Resources' Nova nickel-copper-cobalt project in Western Australia. Credit: Sirius Resources

Sirius pushes Nova towards production in Australia

VANCOUVER — It’s been two and a half years since Mark Bennett, managing director and CEO of Australian-explorer Sirius Resources (ASX: SIR; US-OTC: SRQUF), struggled to keep his 5¢-per-share company above water.



A drill site at Foran Mining's McIlvenna Bay zinc-copper-gold-silver project in Saskatchewan's Hanson Lake camp.   Credit: Foran Mining

Foran finds promising results at the Hanson Lake camp

Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM; US-OTC: FMCXF) has wrapped up the first round of drilling this year on two deposits near its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in Saskatchewan’s Hanson Lake camp, to see if it could delineate more resources near the…


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