Salazar Resources set to dust off neglected portfolio
After riding out a decade of political and market instability, Ecuador-focused junior Salazar Resources (TSXV: SRL) has emerged with funds and a new focus to explore its portfolio of early-stage…
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TSX Venture falls, March 4-8: Maverix Metals, Aurania, Novo
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 1.13% to 618.08 in the first week of March, after a strong close to February. Shares of Maverix Metals rose 36¢ to $2.69. The…
Aurania Resources finds more copper at Lost Cities–Cutucu
Gold-oriented Aurania Resources (TSXV: ARU) is finding as much copper as gold in the early innings of exploration at its Lost Cities–Cutucu project in southeastern Ecuador. In January the junior…
Crystal Lake makes copper discovery at Newmont Lake in BC
Crystal Lake Mining’s (TSXV: CLM; US-OTC: SIOCF) maiden drill program has uncovered a new copper discovery consisting of more than 20 mineralized zones at its 430-sq.-km Newmont Lake project northwest…
Gold & Precious Metals Snapshot: Drills turn across the Americas in search of precious metals
Gold and silver remain the preferred targets for North American mineral explorers, with thousands of campaigns ongoing across the globe. Here is a look at eight such companies. ALAMOS GOLD…
OceanaGold tables resource at WKP prospect in New Zealand
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; US-OTC: OCANF) has tabled a maiden resource at its WKP gold prospect, 10 km north of its Waihi gold mine in New Zealand. WKP’s East Graben vein…
First Mining hits higher gold recoveries at Springpole
First Mining Gold (TSX: FF; US-OTC: FFMGF) says positive interim metallurgical test results for its Springpole gold project, located 110 km northeast of Red Lake, Ont., could increase the project’s…
Bolivia’s door creaks open to foreign mining investment
SANTIAGO, CHILE — A first-of-its kind deal between Bolivia’s state mining company Comibol and Vancouver-based explorer New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) promises to usher in a new period of…
Silvercrest finds high-grade vein at Las Chispas
Silvercrest Metals (TSXV: SIL; NYSE: SILV) has discovered the Babi Sur silver-gold vein on its Las Chispas property in Sonora, Mexico, through recent drilling. The company intersected high-grade silver and…
United States Snapshot: Ten companies with projects on the go in the USA
Mining and mineral exploration in the U.S. has been on an uptick in recent years, thanks to higher gold and silver prices, and an easing in some regulatory burdens. Here’s…
Ascendant doubles resource of Lagoa Salgada in Portugal
Ascendant Resources (TSX: ASND; US-OTC: ASDRF) has nearly doubled the number of tonnes at both its North and South deposits, part of the Lagoa Salgada polymetallic project in Portugal’s Iberian…
BMO: Silvercrest Metals an attractive takeover candidate
Silvercrest Metals (TSXV: SIL) expects to update the resource estimate and complete a preliminary economic assessment in the first quarter of the year on its Las Chispas silver project in…