American Lithium drilling Nevada claystones
American Lithium (TSXV: LI; US-OTC: LIACF) is about to drill its 6.3 sq. km Tonopah lithium claystone (TLC) project near Tonopah, Nevada. Over the next six weeks the company will…
2019
Trilogy Metals is cashed up and ready to go in Alaska
South32 (LON: S32) has the next 11 months to decide whether it wants to write a US$150-million cheque for a 50% stake in Trilogy Metals’ (TSX: TMQ; NYSE-AM: TMQ) two…
SEMAFO tables maiden resource of Bantou gold zone
SEMAFO (TSX: SMF; US-OTC: SEMFF) has tabled a maiden resource for the Bantou gold zone, located about 170 km south of its Mana gold mine in Burkina Faso, totalling 2.1…
Pure Gold aims to pour first gold at Madsen in Q2 2020
With its recently completed feasibility study behind it, Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM) expects to make a production decision on its Madsen gold project in northwestern Ontario’s Red Lake camp…
Liberty Gold advances Black Pine, Goldstrike
Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD) has shown an interest in past-producing oxide gold projects in the Great Basin area of the southwest United States. The historic Goldstrike heap-leach mine on its…
Site visit: Fremont drills past producers in Nevada
ELKO, NEVADA — Fremont Gold (TSXV: FRE; US-OTC: USTDF) is drilling 1,000 reverse-circulation (RC) metres at its Gold Bar gold project, a two-hour drive from Elko, Nevada. It’s targeting a…
Viva breathes new life into Tonopah in Nevada
James Hesketh had his eye on Midway Gold’s Tonopah project — 30 km southeast of the Round Mountain mine in Nevada’s Walker Lane trend — since 2007. So when Midway…
Vale evacuates 500 people near Sul Superior tailings dam as ‘safety measure’
Vale (NYSE: VALE) is evacuating 500 people from an area below the Sul Superior dam, an upstream tailings dam that used to support production from the company’s Gongo Soco mine,…
Commentary: Silver poised for stronger year after humdrum 2018: Silver Institute
The following is a release by the Silver Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit association that draws its international membership from across the breadth of the silver industry, including silver miners,…
Balmoral extends depth of Grasset deposit in Quebec
In the first expansion drilling since 2015 on its Grasset deposit in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Quebec, Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) has extended the known depth of…
Gainey Capital confirms high grades at Las Margaritas
Gainey Capital’s (TSXV: GNC; US-OTC: GNYPF) first pass sampling at its newly-optioned Las Margaritas gold project in Durango, Mexico, sampled up to 40 grams gold per tonne and confirmed the…
The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #19: America’s worrying lack of a battery-minerals supply chain ft Benchmark’s Moores
Simon Moores, managing director of battery minerals advisory firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, appeared before a U.S. Senate committee for energy and minerals on Feb. 5, 2019, to once again sound…