Orla Mining lays out its Mexico and Panama exploration aims
Following the first gold pour in December at Orla Mining’s (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) Camino Rojo oxide gold mine in Mexico, the company is embarking on a 2022 exploration strategy…
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Freeman Gold reports bonanza grades from Lemhi project in Idaho
Toronto-based Freeman Gold (TSXV: FMAN; US-OTC: FMANF) has reported near-surface, bonanza grade results from a recent drilling program at the company’s Beauty zone site, part of its 100%-owned Lemhi gold…
Court halts exploration at Los Andes Copper’s Minera Vizcachitas project on potential endangered species impact
Los Andes Copper (TSXV: LA; US-OTC: LSANF) has stopped drilling at its Minera Vizcachitas project in central Chile after an environment court asked it to suspend its operations in an…
Wolfden hits 50 metres of 173.3 g/t silver equivalent in expansion drilling at Big Silver
Wolfden Resources (TSXV: WLF) has received results from last year’s drilling at the Big Silver project in Maine, where the company holds the mineral rights to a land package of…
Copper, gold, silver key to making carbon capture efforts succeed – study
A group of chemists at Tsinghua University have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a reaction whose performance will…
US markets fall, March 7-11
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 670.61 points or 1.99% to finish the March 7-11 trading week at 32,944.19 and the S&P 500 dropped 124.56 points or 2.88% to 4,204.31….
MAG Silver to acquire Gatling Exploration in all-share deal
MAG Silver (TSX: MAG; NYSE-A: MAG) is acquiring Canadian junior Gatling Exploration (TSXV: GTR) in an all-share deal. Gatling shareholders would receive 0.017 of a MAG common share for each…
Wheaton Precious shares drop on earnings miss
The New York-quoted equity of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (Nasdaq: WPM: TSX: WPM) fell on Friday after the company overnight reported lower earnings and revenue, missing analyst forecasts for the…
Skeena expands 21A zone at Eskay Creek with new in-pit discovery
Skeena Resources (TSX: SKE) has received the final drill results from its 2021 regional and near-mine exploration programs at the Eskay Creek gold-silver project. This drilling was designed to follow…
Buenaventura to kick off San Gabriel gold mine construction in 2023
Buenaventura (NYSE: BVN), Peru’s largest publicly traded precious metals miner, will begin construction on its delayed San Gabriel gold-silver project in the country’s southern region of Moquegua in 2023. The company had…
SolGold’s new CEO takes a fresh look at Cascabel’s Alpala development
Australia-based copper project developer SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) is taking a more measured approach to developing its Alpala copper-gold project at the Cascabel property in Ecuador, new managing director…
BHP invests $100M in South America-focused Filo Mining
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP), which has been expanding its copper footprint, will invest $100 million (US$79 million) in Filo Mining (TSX: FIL). The Canadian junior is developing…