Silver

Positive prefeasibility for Silvercorp

AMC Mining Consultants has given the thumbs-up to Silvercorp Metals’ (SVM-T, SVM-N) Gaocheng silver-lead-zinc project in southern China in a prefeasibility study that outlines a $73.7 million net present value at an 8% discount rate, a…


Corvus shares surge 50% on Nevada gold

Vancouver — Corvus Gold (KOR-T) has started the year with a bang. Positive assay results from its North Bullfrog gold-silver project outside of Beatty, Nev., combined with a generally sunny outlook for gold juniors helped push the…


MAX hopes to find ‘silver lining’ in Majuba Hill

Vancouver — MAX Resource (MXR-V) continues to search for a copper-silver porphyry system at its Majuba Hill property in Pershing County, Nevada. Assays were released in early February from a second quarter 2011 drill campaign.




There’s gold in those dumps

The Sleeper gold mine in Nevada operated as a high-grade open pit from 1986-1996 and according to operations reports by its then owner, Amax Gold, about 54 million tonnes of waste were cast off in waste dumps over the course of the mine life….


Positive prefeasibility for Silvercorp’s Gaocheng property

AMC Mining Consultants has given the thumbs up to Silvercorp Metals’ (SVM-T, SVM-N)  silver-lead-zinc project in southern China in a prefeasibility study that outlines a net present value of $73.7 million at an 8% discount rate, an…


Minefinders' Dolores open-pit gold-silver mine in northern Mexico. Photo by Minefinders

Pan American looks to Minefinders

Driving down cash costs, generating immediate cash flows and building itself into the world’s largest primary silver producer sound like good enough reasons for Pan American Silver (PAA-T, PAAS-Q) to table a friendly takeover bid for fellow…



The exploration camp at Pretium Resources' Brucejack gold-silver project in northwestern British Columbia. Photo by Pretium Resources

Credit crunch no problem for Quartermain’s Pretium

Robert Quartermain’s Pretium Resources (PVG-T, PVG-N) has started the new year with a bang, announcing plans on Jan. 19 to raise $18.5-million in flow-through funds at $18.50 a share. The bought-deal financing led by Salman Partners represents…


Core boxes at the Caspiche project in northern Chile's Maricunga gold district. Credit: Exeter Resource.

Exeter completes prefeasibility on Caspiche

The Caspiche gold-copper project in northern Chile’s Maricunga gold district has a US$2.8-billion pre-tax net present value at a 5% discount rate and a pre-tax internal rate of return of 11.5%, according to Exeter Resource’s (XRC-T, XRA-X) new…


Infill results drive Hana higher

Shares of Hana Mining (HMG-V) closed 7.2% higher at $1.49 per share after the company reported some of the best intercepts yet of copper-silver mineralization in the Banana Zone at the company’s Ghanzi project in Botswana.


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