Rainy River hits feasibility milestone
Rainy River Resources’ (RR-T) president and CEO Raymond Threlkeld is touting the company’s Rainy River gold deposit in northwestern Ontario as “low risk and very high return.”
Copper
Nevada Copper tops up coffers with Red Kite loan
VANCOUVER — Things are rolling along for Vancouver-based Nevada Copper (NCU-T) at its development-stage Pumpkin Hollow iron oxide-copper-gold project, 13 km southeast of the picturesque town of Yerington, Nev.
New milestone for OceanaGold
Earlier this week OceanaGold (OCG-T, OGC-A) declared that the first concentrate from its Didipio open-pit mine in the Philippines was en route to Japan.
Capstone reports mixed results
Capstone Mining’s (CS-T) first quarter operating results were a bit of a mixed bag.
Transition Metals to acquire HTX Minerals
Geologist Scott McLean and geophysicist Keven Stevens set up privately held HTX Minerals in late 2007 and started raising capital for the start-up exploration company in January 2008.
Rio Alto gets more production out of La Arena than expected
Rio Alto Mining’s (RIO-T, RIO-N) continues to build itself into a miner to be reckoned with on the back of its La Arena gold mine in Peru.
Lumina completes PEA on Taca Taca
A preliminary economic assessment of Lumina Copper’s (LCC-V) enormous Taca Taca project, among the world’s top-tier undeveloped copper deposits, demonstrates a US$2.1-billion after-tax net present value and a 17.2% after-tax…
Tiger Resources ramps up operations in the DRC
VANCOUVER – The risk-reward tradeoff that permeates the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is working out well for Tiger Resources (TGS-T, TGS-A): the Australian company has been producing copper from the first phase of its Kipoi project…
Nevada Copper tops up coffers with Red Kite loan
VANCOUVER — Things continue to roll along for Vancouver-based Nevada Copper (NCU-T) at its development-stage Pumpkin Hollow iron-oxide copper gold project 13 km southeast of the picturesque town of Yerington, Nevada. With a busy year…
Aldridge de-risks Yenipazar
Turkey—a nation at the crossroads of Europe and Asia measuring about 1,600 km long and 800 km wide—is punching above its weight as an emerging mining jurisdiction with operating mines owned by Inmet Mining (IMN-T), Eldorado Gold…
McIlvenna Bay keeps growing for Foran
Foran Mining (FOM-V) has bulked up resources at the McIlvenna Bay zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in east-central Saskatchewan, with increases of 15% and 18% in indicated and inferred tonnage.
TSX slips during March 25-29
Toronto stocks edged down during the holiday shortened March 25–29 trading week.