Ecuador slams on the brakes
Ecuador’s burgeoning mining industry has been dealt a serious blow with the passing of a new mining mandate.
Gold
Houston Lake takes steady path towards production
Houston Lake Mining’s (HLM-V, HLKMF-O) president and chief executive Grayme Anthony knows what it is to persevere.
Apollo Gold shoots arrow through adversity
Building a mining company is seldom an easy road to venture down, without hardships and bumps along the way. But in Apollo Gold’s (APG-T, AGT-X)case, the road nearly came to a dead end in 2005, when a…
Private Thai group to buy Pan African Mining (April 28, 2008)
Hungry for new coal properties outside Southeast Asia, Asia Thai Mining is buying Pan African Mining( PAF-V, PAFRF-O)at an 84.3% premium over the Vancouverbased junior’s 20-day average trading price.
Partners rev up exploration efforts at Matheson JV
It’s no coincidence that Matamec Explorations’ (MAT-V, MTCEF-O) new Matheson joint venture, in the Timmins gold camp, is next to Goldcorp’s (G-T, GG-N) Hoyle Pond gold mine property, says the company’…
Positive scoping study for Wits Gold’s Bloemhoek (April 25, 2008)
South African gold explorer Witwatersrand Consolidated Gold Resources (WGR-T, WGR-J) has wrapped up a scoping stu…
Ignore equipment manufacturers at your peril
Since the last commodity boom 20 years ago, underinvestment in mining equipment in countries such as the United Sta…
Coro moves ahead with San Jorge despite anti-acid law
Vancouver – Coro Mining (COP-T) is not letting a law banning the use of sulphuric acid impede progress at the compa…
Seabee has more to give for Claude
Claude Resources’ (CRJ-T, CGR-X) underground exploration program at its Seabee mine in northern Saskatchewan has re…
Luna drilling extends main gold deposit at Aurizona project
Vancouver The first few holes of a deep-drilling program by Luna Gold (LGC-V) have extended the Piaba gold deposi…
Caballo Blanco boosts Canadian Gold Hunter again
Vancouver – The second set of drill results out of Canadian Gold Hunter’s (CGH-T) Caballo Blanco gold project in Ve…
European Minerals to merge with Lero Gold
In a stock transaction valued at about C$60 million, cash-poor European Minerals (EPM-T, EUM-L) is acquiring Lero G…