New Goldquest execs bring extensive Dominican experience
Vancouver – Goldquest Mining (GQC-V) has undergone significant management changes as it prepares to advance its prospects in both the Dominican Republic and Spain.
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Risks and rewards in an emerging Africa
Cape Town, South Africa – A record number of delegates descended on Cape Town in early February to hear about new African investment opportunities as countries continue to stablize and open up, though risks remain.
Pretivm Resources is off to a good start
After twenty-five years at the helm of Silver Standard Resources (SSO-T, SSRI-Q), Robert Quartermain is back in action with a start-up company called Pretivm Resources (PVG-T) that listed in December at $6.00 per share and is trading today at…
Curis reviving Florence ISL copper project
There isn’t much to see at Curis Resources’ (CUV-V) Florence copper project, consisting mostly of flat empty farmland, but that’s the idea.
Optimism gathers around Dynacor in Peru
Dynacor Gold Mines (DNG-T) has been steadily adding to its market cap over the last few months and word that the drills have started turning at a key exploration project in Peru furthered its advance.
Baja finally gets to build Boleo mine (February 17, 2011)
Vancouver – After a false start in 2008, Baja Mining (BAJ-T) now has funding fully secured and is moving ahead with construction of its 70%-owned Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project in Mexico’s Baja State.
Taseko to add capacity at Gibraltar mine
Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) wants to take advantage of robust copper prices and expand capacity at its 75%-owned Gibraltar mine in the Cariboo region of British Columbia and Williams Lake.
Northgate Minerals updates resource at Kemess
Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-N) has boosted its indicated resource tonnes by 18% and its contained gold and copper by 10% and 9% respectively at its Kemess underground project in north-central British Columbia.
EMED revives Rio Tinto mine in Spain
In six years, Cyprus-based EMED Mining (EMD-T, EMED-L) has grown from being little more than a concept to a company with very real plans to restart copper production this year from the historic Rio Tinto open-pit copper mine in southwestern…
Entree Gold is “sitting pretty”
Entrée Gold (ETG-T, EGI-X) is “strongly undervalued” given the potential for it to sell its Mongolian assets to Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) or Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L), Christopher Ecclestone of Hallgarten & Co. argues in a…
Entre Gold gets off to good start at Ann Mason
Entrée Gold’s (ETG-T, EGI-X) first diamond drill hole at its 100%-owned Ann Mason porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in western Nevada’s Yerington district returned 988 metres of copper mineralization in what Greg Crowe, the…
Roundup: We need more discoveries, part II (February 07, 2011)
Last week, we presented the Canadian exploration projects highlighted at the Mineral Exploration Roundup presented by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC). This week, we turn to the international scene.