Mt. Milligan produces first concentrate
VANCOUVER — Thompson Creek Metals’ (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) $1.5-billion investment is about to pay off: the Mount Milligan mine is now producing copper-gold concentrate.
Industrial/Specialty Minerals
Mercator weighs its options
Mercator Minerals (TSX: ML; US-OTC: MLKKF) is delving into a strategic review that is considering any or all of the following: selling the company; a business combination; or selling all or part of its assets, in light of lower commodity…
U.S. markets, Sept. 23-27
The major U.S. indexes slipped, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreating 192.85 points to 15,258.24, putting an end to three weeks of gains. The S&P 500 Index fell 18.16 points to 1,691.75; the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index…
Midas optimizes Golden Meadows
Midas Gold (TSX: MAX) is assessing ways to lift the economics of its wholly owned Golden Meadows gold project in Idaho’s historic Stibnite mining district ahead of a prefeasibility study that’s due in mid-2014.
Taseko celebrates an improved Gibraltar mine
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — When Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) reopened Gibraltar near Williams Lake in 2006, the 36-year-old mine had enough ore to feed its 30,000-tonne-per-day mill for just over three years.
Editorial: KWG-Cliffs ruling – No appeasement on the easement
One of the more significant events for Ontario mineral explorers in September took place in the halls of the province’s bureaucracy, with Cliffs Natural Resources losing its application for easement (surface access right-of-way) across…
Western phosphate producers look east for growth
AGADIR, MOROCCO — Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) may be the largest producer of finished phosphate products in the world, with four phosphate-rock mines, three processing plants in Florida and a second plant in Louisiana, but permitting new mines or…
Rodinia Lithium gives up costly Nevada claims
When the Nevada office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management raised its annual mining claim fees last year by 700%, from US$140 per claim to US$1,120 — at a time capital markets were even more challenging for miners — juniors like…
Colt gets positive PEA for Tabuaco tungsten project
VANCOUVER — A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) says the tungsten mine that Colt Resources (TSXV: GTP) is planning at its Tabuaco project in northern Portugal works on paper. It’s a vote of confidence for Colt to expand the…
Strong economics for the Agata DSO project
Mindoro Resources (TSXV: MIO; ASX: MDO) and TVI Pacific (TSX: TVI) have something to be happy about after a feasibility study on their Agata nickel-laterite project in the Philippines returned encouraging results for a high-iron laterite direct…
Flinders gains on Woxna graphite PEA
VANCOUVER — Flinders Resources (TSXV: FDR; US-OTC: FLNXF) should be able to restart the mine at its fully owned and permitted Woxna graphite project in Sweden for US$16.7 million, which could be repaid in a few years by selling the…
Matamec drops on feasibility study
Matamec Explorations (TSXV: MAT; US-OTC: MHREF) took a hit after the Montreal-based explorer published a feasibility study for its Kipawa joint-venture heavy rare earth elements project near Rouyn-Noranda, Que. Its shares dropped 33%, or…