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Capstone’s Minto will live to produce through 2022

VANCOUVER — A lot has changed since Vancouver-based producer Capstone Mining (CS-T) kick-started production at its Minto open-pit copper mine 240-km-north of Whitehorse in 2007. At the time the mine had an eight-year life and a throughput…




Chile, Peru must meet energy challenges as mining booms

VANCOUVER — The Andean nations of Chile and Peru are firmly established as the top copper producing locales in the world. Chile holds the number one spot with annual production clocking in at roughly 4.9 million tonnes, while Peru sits in…


Edgewater secures $120M financing for Corcoesto

VANCOUVER — Edgewater Exploration (EDW-V) has secured in principle a $120 million debt financing for its flagship Corcoesto gold project in Spain as it moves the project towards production.



Silver Predator’s Taylor project doesn’t disappoint

Results from the first fourteen of twenty-five drill holes from its 2012 exploration program at its flagship Taylor project in Nevada sent shares of Silver Predator (SPD-T) up 35% to 25¢ a share on 7,300 shares traded. 



Venture down in June 11-15 period

VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 41.91 points after four days of losses outweighed one day of gains in the June 11-15 period, ending at 1,251.02 points. Volume was also down for most of the period, but a spike…



U.S. markets move higher, June 11-15

U.S. factory output contracted in May for the second time in three months and consumer prices fell 0.3 percent, but news late in the week that major central banks were prepared to take collective action to provide liquidity and prevent a credit…


SMI can’t touch the copper-gold pie at Tampakan

On the Philippine island of Mindanao, advancement of the Tampakan project — encompassing one of the planet’s largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits — remains in limbo following months of environmental opposition to a planned…


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