Aura to Acquire Brazilian Project
Vancouver — Aura Gold (ORA-T, AUGIF-O) is expanding its asset base in Brazil by acquiring an advanced copper-gold project in a $293-million all-stock deal that transfers control of the junior to the …
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Editor’s Picks: Deal-Making Aplenty
The most significant mining event of the fifteenth trading week of 2007 was very good news, even if the announcement was brief.
Equinox Studies Lumwana’s Uranium Potential
With mine construction well under way at its large, wholly owned Lumwana copper project in northwestern Zambia, Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQN-A) now has the time to revise a bankable feasibility study …
Barrick offloads entire stake in NovaGold (April 20, 2007)
Vancouver – Making good on the planned sale of its 14.8% stake in NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-N), Barrick Gold (AB…
Millstream’s Potter assays promising
Drilling at Millstream Mines’ (MLM-V), Potter property, near Matheson, Ont., continues to hit encouraging intervals…
Kenrich-Eskay tables Double Ed copper resource
Vancouver – Kenrich-Eskay Mining (KRE-V, KREKF-O) has delivered a modest resource estimate for the Double Ed deposi…
Western Copper cuts moly in NW Expo
Vancouver – With its acquisition of Lumina Copper now well under its belt, Western Copper’s (WRN-T, WCPCF-O) drilli…
Benton gets PGM exploration boost (April 17, 2007)
Stillwater Mining (SWC-N) has agreed to pump $1.6 million into Benton Resources (BTC-V) Goodchild nickel-copper-pl…
Ivanhoe does deal with Mongolia
Robert Friedland appears to have done it again.
Gold Reserve does the job in Venezuela
Having recently attained the environmental permit for its Brisas copper-gold project in Venezuela, Gold Reserve (GRZ-T, GRZ-X) has reminded the world that mining projects operated by foreign companies…
FNX reserves up along with earnings (April 16, 2007)
Year-end reserve estimates at FNX Mining (FNX-T, FNXMF-O) show the company replaced its reserves at the operating McCreedy West nickel mine near Sudbury, Ont., and it has also published its first rese…
Back Forty drilling cuts gold too (April 16, 2007)
Aquila Resources (AQA-V, AQARF-O) has completed two new holes on the Back Forty base metal deposit in Menominee Cty., Mich., and both have intersected gold mineralization as well as copper and zinc.