Transition to gold
When Scott McLean packed up and left Xstrata (XTA-L) after a long and illustrious career with Falconbridge, he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his time: Find another world class mine.
Gold
Avion triples Hounde resource to 1.6M oz. gold
In less than two years, Avion Gold (AVR-T) has turned a group of early stage mineral concessions in Burkina Faso into a 1.6-million-oz. gold project, with management convinced of its further potential for growth.
Abacus advances its Ajax copper-gold project
Abacus Mining & Exploration (ame-v) has painted an interesting prospect at its joint-ventured Ajax copper-gold project near Kamloops, B.C., with a feasibility study showing the project could support a 60,000-tonne-per-day operation…
Claude finds more gold deep at Madsen
Claude Resources (CRJ-T, CGR-N) went deeper at its Madsen Project near Red Lake and found more high grade gold.
Richmont adds ounces at Monique and Wasamac
Vancouver – Richmont Mines (RIC-T) has released a resource estimate for its potentially near-term producing Monique gold deposit in Quebec shortly after issuing a resource update at Wasamac.
Welsh gold – the ‘rarest gold in the world’
London, U.K. – If you’re looking for expensive gold jewellery this holiday season -not just any old gold jewellery, mind you, but gold of such fine quality and such rarity as befits a royal family – you might want to consider passing on Welsh…
San Gold rises sharply on drill review
A review of drilling results at San Gold’s (SGR-T) Rice Lake mining complex in Manitoba did the trick, as the release seemed to remind the market of the projects prospectivity.
International Minerals completes PEA on Converse
At a base-case gold price of US$1,300 per oz. and US$25 per oz. for silver and throughput of 45,000 tonnes per day, an open-pit mine at International Minerals’ (IMZ-T) Converse project in Nevada returns a pre-tax non-discounted cash flow of…
First Uranium to slash its workforce by half at Ezulwini
First Uranium (FIU-T) says it may cut up to 1,850 jobs at the Ezulwini gold-uranium mine in South Africa because it has not been able to sustain production levels.
Eldorado to buy European Goldfields
Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T, EGO-N) proposed acquisition of European Goldfields (EGU-T, EGU-L) will enable Eldorado to increase gold production from about 650,000 ounces in 2011 to over 1.4 million ounces by 2014–or a rate of 30% on an…
More ounces lift Extorre
Extorre Gold Mines (XG-T, XG-X) took another step towards production at its Cerro Moro project in southern Argentina with the release of an updated resource estimate.
Gold-Ore and Astur Gold to merge
Vancouver – European-focused Gold-Ore Resources (GOZ-T) and Astur Gold (AST-V) have decided to join forces to create a single company with one producing gold mine and a second gold project with significant potential.