Zinc-Lead

Selwyn turns the page after eight years at Howard’s Pass

VANCOUVER — It has been quite a ride for Vancouver-based junior Selwyn Resources (SWN-V) since it acquired a 100% stake in the Howard’s Pass zinc-lead project in the eastern Yukon from a Placer Dome joint venture in 2005. The story…


Friedland works his magic at the PDAC

Legendary mining promoter Robert Friedland is looking to strike it big again — this time with Ivanplats’ (IVP-T) high-grade precious and base metals projects in Africa.


Robert Friedland gives a speech at the 2013 PDAC in Toronto. Photo by Salma Tarik

Friedland works his magic at the PDAC

Legendary mining promoter Robert Friedland is looking to strike it big again — this time with Ivanplats’ (IVP-T) high-grade precious and base metals projects in Africa.



Selwyn turns the page after eight years at Howard’s Pass

VANCOUVER — It has been quite a ride for Vancouver-based junior Selwyn Resources (SWN-V) since it acquired a 100% stake in the Howard’s Pass zinc-lead project from a Placer Dome joint venture in 2005. The story came to an end on Mar. 5,…





Back Forty gains grade but work still suspended

VANCOUVER — A new resource estimate for the Back Forty poly-metallic project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has boosted the deposit’s metal grades. But despite the improvement, no work is underway at the site because project…


Garfield MacVeigh (left), president of Constantine Metal Resources, shakes hands with Nobuo Yamazaki, president of Dowa Metals & Mining, after reaching a joint-venture agreement for the Palmer VMS project in Alaska. Source: Constantine Metal Resources

Constantine finds perfect partner for Palmer

VANCOUVER — For the last few years, the Palmer project in Alaska almost had it all: a high-grade polymetallic deposit with thick, continuous zones that could be mined using short lateral drifts to deposit ore beside a highway running to a…


Constantine's  Palmer project in Alaska. Source: Constantine Metals

Constantine finds perfect partner for Palmer

VANCOUVER – For the last few years, the Palmer project in Alaska almost had it all: a high-grade polymetallic deposit with thick, continuous zones that could be mined using short lateral drifts to deposit ore beside a highway running to a…


Equipment at the Back Forty project in Michigan. Source: Aquila Resources

Back Forty gains grade but HudBay keeps project suspended

VANCOUVER – A new resource estimate for the Back Forty project in Michigan has boosted the deposit’s metal grades, but despite the improvement there is no work underway at the site because project operator HudBay Minerals (HBM-T)…


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