Scottish gold project divides then unites rural community (Part 1)
Tyndrum, a tiny village of around 160 people in Scotland’s Grampian Highlands, sits at the northern edge of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park on the side of a highway.
Gold
First Mexican has high hopes for Guadalupe
Ongoing exploration for a cash-strapped junior is hard to do in a turbulent market, but it can reap handsome rewards. The possibility of a huge payoff has First Mexican Gold’s (FMG-V) president and CEO Jim Voisin pushing forward the company’s…
Extorre delivers gold and silver in Santa Cruz province
Infill drilling at Extorre Gold Mines’ (XG-T, XG-X) Cerro Moro project in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province has captured the attention of investors, with high-grade intercepts carrying 11 metres of 36.3 grams gold per tonne and 4,412 grams…
Rambler delivers on Ming
Nearly seven years after Rambler Metals and Mining (RAB-V, RMM-L) took control of the past-producing Ming copper-gold mine on Newfoundland Baie Verte peninsula, the company has poured its first gold doré bar and shipped it for further…
Rio wins ruling, Ivanhoe stock falls
While being on the hook for half of a US$6-billion mine construction is hardly small potatoes, it’s a bargain compared to shouldering the burden alone.
Anaconda unloads iron ore assets in Chile
Anaconda Mining (ANX-T) has sold off its iron ore assets in Chile in a bid to pay down debt and focus on gold.
La Mancha planning second life for Hassai
For the past six years, Martin Amyot has been making an annual trek to Vancouver to try to convince investors that not only has Sudan had a gold mine in continuous operation since 1991, but also that the mine will be in operation for years to…
Amarillo posts prefeasibility study on Posse
In the Brazilian state of Goias, Amarillo Gold’s (AGC-V) Posse deposit – previously mined by Western Mining during the nineties – is surrounded by a number of large, copper-gold-nickel laterite projects.
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.
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.