Wesdome hikes resource estimate for Kiena mine in Quebec
Wesdome Gold Mine (TSX: WDO) has released an updated resource for its 100%-owned Kiena complex in Val-d’Or, Quebec. The latest resource estimate, which points to an increase in gold grade and…
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Falco deal with Glencore key to Horne 5 development
Falco Resources’ (TSXV: FPC) Horne 5 project contains 7 million oz. gold. It might contain just as many questions. Perhaps the biggest one is whether or not Falco will secure…
Osisko launches incubator, bids for Barkerville
Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) has created a project development platform called North Spirit Discovery Group, and it hopes the resource development and finance company’s first asset will…
Probe Metals hikes resource estimate
Probe Metals (TSXV: PRB; US-OTC: PROBF) has released an updated resource estimate for its Val-d’Or East project in Quebec, 25 km east of Val-d’Or and 1.5 km west of the…
Monarch drills visible gold at Fayolle project in Quebec
The latest resource estimate for Monarch Gold’s (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) newly acquired Fayolle gold project in Quebec confirms the deposit’s high-grade, near-surface potential. Fayolle’s indicated resource now stands at…
Quebec Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
Mining companies spend an average of $8.5 billion a year in Quebec, and the industry generates $962 million annually for the provincial government, excluding corporate income taxes, according to the…
Bell Copper chases payoff from Perseverance
Tim Marsh likes to say that it took 150 drill holes to hit the high-grade core of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold porphyry deposit that made the Mongolian discovery economic….
Victoria Gold pours first gold at Eagle mine
Victoria Gold (TSXV: VIT) has started producing gold at its Eagle mine in the Yukon. Annual gold production is estimated at 200,000 oz. at an average all-in sustaining costs (AISCs)…
Integra completes ‘exceptional’ PEA on DeLamar in Idaho
A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of Integra Resources’ (TSXV: ITR; US-OTC: IRRZF) DeLamar project in southwestern Idaho envisions a ten-year mining operation producing an average of 124,000 gold-equivalent oz. per…
Blockade resumes at Newmont Goldcorp’s Peñasquito mine
Newmont Goldcorp (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) has temporarily halted operations at its Peñasquito mine in Mexico, following the resumption of an illegal blockade. This is the latest blockade to disrupt the mine since…
Revving up Greenland’s mineral production will take time
The MV Happy Dragon had just sailed into safe harbour at Charleston, S.C., when Hurricane Dorian forced the vessel back out to sea to await better weather. The cargo ship…
Osisko drills for Windfall’s ‘roots’
Discoveries earlier this year at the Windfall gold project in Quebec drove Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) in July to boost its drill program by 200,000 metres, bringing the total for…