Abacus Study Adds Potential At Ajax
VANCOUVER — Abacus Mining & Exploration’s (AME-V, ABCFF-O) president has long believed his Ajax project, a brownfields property surrounded by infrastructure and a mining-friendly population in Ka…
Copper
Canadian Gold Hunter and Sanu Resources to merge
With the proposed merger of Canadian Gold Hunter (CGH-T) and Sanu Resources (SNU-V), both part of the Lundin Mining…
Inca Pacific wins environmental permit for Magistral
Fifteen months after submitting its environmental and social impact assessment to the government of Peru, Inca Paci…
Emba Derho Scoping Study Lifts Sunridge
VANCOUVER — As Sunridge Gold (SGC-V, SGCNF-O) announces a positive scoping study for its Emba Derho copper-zinc project near Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, the company’s executive vice-president Don…
Inmet Ups Las Cruces Financing To $348M
Inmet Mining (IMN-T, IEMMF-O) plans to increase a US$300-million bought-deal financing to $348 million so it can pay off all debts related to building its Las Cruces open-pit copper mine in Spain.
Pebble Creek Gets Key Permit In India
It’s been 13 long years in the making, but Pebble Creek Mining (PEB-V, PBLEF-O) is now just one step away from getting a mining lease for its Askot project, in the scenic foothills of the Himalayas in…
Nautilus Hones Undersea Plans
VANCOUVER — Construction of its novel deep-sea mining equipment has been on hold since December, but Nautilus Minerals is seeing opportunity rather than disappointment in its delay: the company has s…
BHP Delays Chilean Expansion Projects
The global recession has prompted BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L) to continue to delay a slate of expansion projects in Chile, the biggest among them an expansion of the world’s largest copper mine, Escon…
Exeter Set To Update Caspiche Resource
VANCOUVER — The drills have stopped turning for a winter break, but lengthy gold-copper intercepts keep rolling in from Exeter Resource’s (XRC-V, XRA-X) Caspiche project in Chile.
Panoro Reports Antilla Resource
If you asked Luquman Shaheen, president and chief executive of Panoro Minerals (PML-V, POROF-O), why he likes Peru he’d tell you about its long and rich history of private mining, its pro-mining cultu…
Quadra’s Franke In Home Stretch
Quadra Mining (QUA-T, QADMF-O) is banking that it is the right company to finally get the Franke copper project in Chile into gear.
Polar Star aims to get ‘bigger bang for our buck’
Polar Star Mining (PSR-V) has let the option expire for the Chepica copper-gold mine, which was one point of c…