PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — Rising out of the sea at the collision of the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates, Papua New Guinea is the stuff of legend for both its geological potential and punishing working environment.
VANCOUVER — Curis Resources (CUV-T) bucked two of the mining sector’s most persistent problems — creeping capital costs and rising operating expenses — with a prefeasibility study for its Florence copper project in…
Yamana Gold (YRI-T, AUY-N) is getting a firmer handle on its recently acquired Cerro Moro gold project in Argentina.
VANCOUVER — Uranium juniors have had a tough time over the past two years, but Wyoming-focused developer Uranerz Energy (URZ-T, URZ-X) looks poised to capitalize on a recent uptick in the nuclear market, with an enviable land position in…
Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) could become a consolidator in B.C., or prey to companies like Lundin Mining (LUN-T), Capstone Mining (CS-T) or Teck Resources (TCK-T, TCK-N), Christopher Chang of Laurentian Bank Securities argues.
Companies need to continually reframe business practices in order to survive as markets, technology and expectations change. More specifically, miners need to consider the many other complexities driving the widespread and growing criticism of…
Alder Resources’ (ALR-V) chairman Don Dudek and CEO Joseph Arengi, who years ago pursued the past-producing copper-gold-silver Rosita project in northeast Nicaragua, are hoping their perseverance will soon pay off with a big discovery.
With junior miners struggling for financing, many market watchers have concluded that it’s a buyer’s market — but only if investors can distinguish the quality companies from the ones that won’t last another year or two.
BISSA, BURKINA FASO — Just 15 months after starting construction, Nordgold (NORD-L) has entered production at its Bissa open-pit gold mine in Burkina Faso, located in the rural commune of Sabce, 100 km north of the capital Ouagadougou.
Detour Gold (DGC-T) and its shareholders have something to cheer about, as the junior gold explorer has graduated to producer after completing its first gold pour at the large Detour Lake mine in northeastern Ontario, a goal the company has…
Montreal-based explorer Colt Resources (GTP-V) tumbled to a 52-week low after announcing it received two experimental mining licences that allowed it to advance its tungsten and gold exploration projects in Portugal. It likely wasn’t the…
In a speech on the state of the global mining industry, Ian Delaney, chairman of Sherritt International (S-T), stated that the world has entered an era of resource scarcity, in which most large-scale, high-grade deposits have already been…
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