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A portal at MAG Silver and Fresnillo's Juanicipo silver project in central Mexico. Credit: MAG Silver

MAG Silver, Fresnillo strengthen Juanicipio’s potential

VANCOUVER — MAG Silver (TSX: MAG; NYSE-MKT: MVG) and 56% joint-venture partner Fresnillo (LSE: FRES; US-OTC: FNLPF), have intersected wide intervals of high-grade silver mineralization beneath the existing resource at their Juanicipio…


U.S. stocks drop, April 27-May 1

U.S. equities fell  after being tripped up by  soft economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 56.08 points to 18,024.06, and the S&P 500 Index slipped 9.4 points to 2,108.29. The Nasdaq retreated 86.69 points to…


A field worker stands by the outcropping Shumagin vein at Redstar Gold's Unga gold project in Alaska. Credit: Redstar Gold

Redstar Gold drills the Aleutian Islands

If you ask Redstar Gold (TSXV: RGC; US-OTC: RGCTF) for comparables to the mineralization at its Unga gold project in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, the management team will tell you that it is similar to the high-grade, low-sulphidation…


Capstone Mining's  Minto mine in the Yukon.  Photo by Gwen Preston.

Capstone ends Q1 in the red

Copper producer Capstone Mining (TSX: CS; US-OTC: CSFFF) widens its loss in the first quarter of 2015 due to impairments at the Pinto Valley mine in Arizona and the Minto mine in the Yukon.  


Wall Street gains, April 20-24

U.S. equities swung back into the positive territory. The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 1.4% to 18,080.14 points and the S&P 500 Index added 1.8% to 2,117.69. The Nasdaq rose 3.2% to 5,092.08. The gold price, however, fell US$15.30…



Workers at a drill site in the Artavasdes zone, part of Lydian International's Amulsar gold project in Armenia. Credit: Lydian International

New Armenian legislation is a plus for Lydian

Lydian International (TSX: LYD; US-OTC: LYDIF) says new mine ramp gradients will help it save up to $100 million in operating costs, and trim total cash costs to US$600 per oz. from US$642 per oz. at its Amulsar gold project in southern Armenia.


A drill site at Foran Mining's McIlvenna Bay zinc-copper-gold-silver project in Saskatchewan's Hanson Lake camp.   Credit: Foran Mining

Foran finds promising results at the Hanson Lake camp

Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM; US-OTC: FMCXF) has wrapped up the first round of drilling this year on two deposits near its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in Saskatchewan’s Hanson Lake camp, to see if it could delineate more resources near the…


At the Mineral Deposit Research Unit's 25th anniversary celebration in Vancouver earlier this month. From left: John Thompson, past director; Craig Hart, current director; Al Sinclair, former dean of earth and ocean sciences at UBC; Ian Thomson, past director; Dick Tosdal, past director; John McDonald, co-founder; and Peter Bradshaw, co-founder. Photo by Lesley Stokes.

UBC’s MDRU celebrates 25th anniversary

VANCOUVER — The Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) held its 25th anniversary celebration in early April at the Vancouver Convention Centre, where Peter Bradshaw, cofounder and Canadian Mining…


A portal at Klondex Mines' Midas gold-silver mine in Nevada. Source: Klondex Mines

Klondex adds life to Midas with aggressive drilling

When Klondex Mines (TSX: KDX; US-OTC: KLNDF) bought the Midas gold-silver mine in Nevada from Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) in early 2014, Newmont had penciled in March 2015 as the date the underground operation would reach the end of its mine…


The secondary crusher at Copper Mountain Mining's namesake copper mine in British Columbia. Credit: Copper Mountain Mining.

Technical troubles dog Copper Mountain in Q1

Mechanical difficulties at Copper Mountain Mining’s (TSX: CUM) 75%-owned Copper Mountain mine in southern B.C. involving a transformer failure on one of the ball mills in February and a 10-day disruption with the regrind mill in March…


Geologists working at Panoro Minerals' Cotabambas copper project in Peru. Source: Panoro Minerals

Panoro’s Cotabambas PEA a good start

Analysts believe Panoro Minerals’ (TSXV: PML; US-OTC: POROF) preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the Cotabambas project shows the copper-gold-silver-molybdenum porphyry deposit is viable, despite failing to impress investors. 


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