Copper



A drill rig at NovaCopper's Bornite copper project in northwestern Alaska. Credit: NovaCopper

NovaCopper boosts resources at Bornite

VANCOUVER — Explorer NovaCopper (TSX: NCQ, NYSE-MKT: NCQ) has reason to be pleased with results of a busy 2013 field season at its Bornite copper deposit in northwestern Alaska’s Ambler mining district.


Enexco's flagship project is the Contact copper project in northern Nevada. It also holds a 20% interest inDenison Mines' (TSX: DML; NYSE-MKT: DNN) Bachman Lake uranium project in the Athabasca basin.Credit: Cameco

Enexco jumps on uranium hit at Mann Lake

International Enexco (TSXV: IEC) saw its shares climb 23% after announcing the thickest and highest grade hit yet from its 30%-held Mann Lake uranium property in Saskatchewan’s prolific Athabasca basin.  


Altan Nevada Minerals' North Star gold project in Nevada. Credit: Altan Nevada Minerals

Altan CEO gets creative to finance greenfield exploration

VANCOUVER — It has been a lean two years for mineral explorers, and Evan Jones has seen just how tough capital markets have been on juniors, having guided sister companies Altan Rio Minerals (TSXV: AMO) and Altan Nevada Minerals (TSXV:…


The mill at First Majestic Silver's La Guitarra project, which it acquired from Silvermex Resources in 2012.

PDAC: What turns a discovery into a mine?

Less than half of the discoveries made since 1950 have turned into mines so far, Richard Schodde, managing director of Melbourne-based MinEx Consulting, said at the recent Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s annual…



A drill site at Reservoir Minerals' flagship Timok copper-gold property in eastern Serbia, which has seen more than 45,000 metres of drilling. Credit: Reservoir Minerals

Reservoir Minerals raising $33 million in double financing

VANCOUVER — Investment dollars may be hard to rustle up these days, but Reservoir Minerals (TSXV: RMC; US-OTC: RVRLF) has a recipe for a raise: release an initial resource estimate for a flagship project containing 3.8 billion lb. copper…


An aerial view of Taseko Mines' New Prosperity project in central British Columbia. Credit: Taseko Mines

Taseko denied New Prosperity

VANCOUVER — Despite a $300-million adaptation to save Fish Lake, the Canadian government will not allow Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) to build a $1.5-billion open-pit copper–gold mine at its New Prosperity project in…



Workers unloading rods at a drill site at Colombian Mines and Teck Resources' Yarumalito gold-copper porphyry project in Colombia. Credit: Colombian Mines

Colombian Mines buoyed by assets

VANCOUVER — Colombian Mines (TSXV: CMJ; US-OTC: CMBPF) has remained active on the exploration front through a hybrid strategy of project generation and organic discovery.


Thomas Robyn, Sierra Metals' vice-president of exploration, at the Cusi silver-gold project in Mexico.  Photo by Anthony Vaccaro.

Sierra Metals goes old school at Cusi

CHIHUAHUA STATE, MEXICO — The green foothills an hour west of the city of Chihuahua are peaceful now. There is nothing in the gaze of a lingering llama that would tip a visitor off to the blood spilled here roughly a hundred years ago.


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