Volume 100 Number 28 Aug 25 - 31, 2014

Bre-X Minerals personnel at the Busang property in Indonesia in 1996, from left: Jerry Alo, John Felderhof, Michael de Guzman and Cesar Puspos. Photo by Vivian Danielson of The Northern Miner.

Bre-X film gains traction in Hollywood

The producer/director of an upcoming major motion picture based on the Bre-X Minerals fraud is in the final stages of financing and confirms he is in negotiations with an A-list Hollywood actor to play a lead role.



Stillwater Mining's East Boulder PGM mine in Montana. Credit: Stillwater Mining

Stillwater keeps its PGM costs down

Stillwater Mining (TSX: SWC.U; NYSE: SWC) has gone back to the basics and is refocused on its platinum group metals (PGM) assets in Montana, under the direction of its relatively new board, with noticeably good results.


OceanaGold's Didipio gold-copper mine in the Philippines, 270 km north of Manila. Credit: OceanaGold

OceanaGold to optimize Didipio mine plan

OceanaGold’s (TSX: OGC; ASX: OGC) Didipio gold–copper mine  in the Philippines entered production in April 2013 and is on track this year to produce between 85,000 and 95,000 oz. gold and 21,000 to 24,000 tonnes copper, at…



Turquoise Hill Resources' Oyu Tolgoi gold-copper mine in Mongolia, 80 km north of the Mongolia-China border. Credit: Turquoise Hill Resources

Tax dispute adds doubt to Oyu Tolgoi’s UG expansion

Turquoise Hill Resources’ (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) second-quarter results were overshadowed by a tax dispute with the Mongolian government, among other concerns, relating to its Oyu Tolgoi gold–copper mine in the country’s South…



Aegean Metals Group president and CEO Eric Roth (far right) speaks to geologists at the Hot Maden gold-copper project in Turkey, 1,050 km east of Istanbul. Credit: Aegean Metals Group

Eric Roth’s Aegean Metals sees upside in Turkey

VANCOUVER — It was a quiet couple of years for Eric Roth after Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY) snapped up his Extorre Gold Mines and its Cerro Moro project in Argentina for US$400 million in mid-2012. But now as president…



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