Volume 98 Number 3 Mar 5 - 11, 2012


A drill set up at Coro Mining's Berta copper project, 20 km west of the village of Inca de Oro in Chile's Region III. Photo by Coro Mining

Coro options more copper ground in Chile

Coro Mining (COP-T) has signed an option agreement with a local Chilean company to acquire El Desesperado — a 7-sq.-km property hosting porphyry copper-style mineralization 16 km southwest of Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine in…



A view of Geologix's Tepal gold-copper project in Michoacan State, Mexico. Photo by The Northern Miner

Geologix looks at the bigger picture at Tepal

While largely focused on advancing its Tepal gold-copper project in Western Mexico towards production, Geologix Explorations (GIX-T) has also been busy with regional exploration to improve the project’s long-term potential.





A diagram of Celeste Copper's proposed mine infrastructure at the South Crofty tin project in Cornwall, England. Photo by Celeste Copper

Celeste looks to resurrect tin mining in Cornwall

A lot can change in a year. For Celeste Copper (C-V), a former copper-gold explorer struggling to advance optioned properties in Chile, it has meant new management, new deep-pocketed investors, a new jurisdiction and a new target: tin. 


At Rainy River Resources' Rainy River gold project, from left: vice-president of environment and sustainability Kyle Stanfield, COO Michael Mutchler and vice-president of operations Garett Macdonald. Photo by Rainy River Resources

Here comes the sun for Rainy River

An updated resource estimate based on 394 new core holes from 170,000 metres of drilling in 2011 — bringing the total to 1,279 drill holes, or 578,000 metres — has lifted the spirits and shares of Rainy River Resources (RR-T, RR-V).




Drillers active at Avino Silver & Gold Mines'Avino copper-silver-gold project in Mexico's north-central Sierra Madre silver belt. Photo by Avino Silver & Gold Mines

Avino inches closer to production

Avino is an old name in Mexican mining for a couple of reasons. Most prominently, it is the name of a legendary silver and copper vein 1.6 km long and 182 metres wide at the surface. The vein’s scale helped make it the first mine in the…


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