When Capstone Mining’s (CS-T) Santo Domingo iron oxide-copper-gold project in Chile eventually enters commercial production in 2017 or 2018 — at an estimated capital cost of between US$1.5 billion and US$1.8 billion — the…
VANCOUVER — Operating in the Peruvian Andes can offer a range of challenges, not the least of which is a rainy season that usually runs from September through April. And heavy rains proved to be an issue for Canadian base metal producer…
VANCOUVER — When it comes to media campaigns and social relations in the mining world, there might not be a more interesting case study than Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (NDM-T, NAK-N) ongoing defense of its large Pebble…
VANCOUVER — It took less than three years and only 30 holes for Full Metal Minerals (FMM-V) and Antofagasta (ANTO-L) to define a resource at their Pyramid project in Alaska that contains more than 1.3 billion lb. copper, as well as…
Ivanplats’ (IVP-T) shares lost 7% after the company updated the market on its three large precious and base metal projects in Africa.
Operational issues at the Copper Mountain mine in B.C. are hounding Copper Mountain Mining (CUM-T).
VANCOUVER — Drills probing the Northwest zone, a satellite zone 1.2 km from Nevsun Resources’ (NSU-T, NSU-N) operating Bisha gold mine in Eritrea, are finding high-grade gold, copper and zinc — just not all in the same place.
Twenty-eight workers have died at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (FCX-N) Grasberg mining complex in Indonesia after the roof of an underground training facility collapsed on May 14. Ten others have been rescued.
Difficult markets and strained balance sheets are dogging junior mining companies across the industry, forcing them to make some hard decisions about how to manage their assets.
Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) has outlined stronger economics for its prized Asmara copper-zinc-gold project in Eritrea in a feasibility study that outshines last year’s prefeasibility study.
In a little over a year, partners Consolidated Woodjam Copper (WCC-V) and Gold Fields (GFI-N) have grown the inferred resource at the Southeast zone on their Woodjam property in the Cariboo region of central British Columbia from 146.5 million…
VANCOUVER — Diversified base metal producer Lundin Mining (LUN-T) is on target to meet its guidance this year despite lower-than-anticipated production during the first quarter at its wholly owned Zinkgruvan zinc-lead-copper mine, 200 km…
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