Orbit Garant buys Burkina Faso drilling company
Orbit Garant Drilling (TSX: OGD), one of Canada’s largest drilling companies, took advantage of the last downturn to make a strategic move into Chile, and now hopes to repeat that…
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Alio improves resource by 52% at Florida Canyon
Alio Gold (TSX: ALO; NYSE: ALO) has boosted measured and indicated resources at its operating Florida Canyon gold mine in Nevada by 52% over the previous estimate, contained in a 2016…
Amarillo improves economics of Mara Rosa in Brazil
Amarillo Gold (TSXV: AGC; US-OTC: AGCBF) recently tabled an updated prefeasibility study (PFS) for the Posse gold deposit on its 100%-owned Mara Rosa gold project in Goias state, Brazil. The…
Nordic Gold secures funding for Laiva mine in Finland
Pandion Mine Finance is giving Nordic Gold (TSX: NOR) an additional US$7 million in funding so that the junior can put its Laiva gold mine into production and pour first…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 122: Innovation strategies for miners ft George Hemingway of Stratalis
This episode features a keynote speech by one of the mining industry’s leading futurists: George Hemingway, Partner and Head of the Innovation Practice at The Stratalis Group in New York…
Treasury tables first new resource for Goliath since 2015
Treasury Metals (TSX: TML; US-OTC: TSRMF) has updated the resource at its 100% owned Goliath gold project near Dryden, Ontario, for the first time since 2015, boosting underground gold equivalent…
Medgold hunts for gold in Serbia with Fortuna Silver
Medgold Resources (TSXV: MED; US-OTC: MGLDF) is wrapping up a nearly 5,000-metre exploration program at its Tlamino gold-silver-lead-zinc project in southern Serbia that partner Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE:…
Northern Vertex strikes three financial deals, raises US$13.6M for Moss
Vancouver-based Northern Vertex Mining (TSXV: NEE) (US-OTC: NHVCF) has amended the terms of a loan and lined up two new sources of financing totalling US$13.6 million to improve cash flow…
Orsu finds silver at Sergeevskoe in Russia
Orsu Metals (TSXV: OSU; US-OTC: ORSUF) is drilling 12,500 metres at its 90% owned Sergeevskoe gold project, 40 km southwest of the town of Mogocha, Russia, on its way to…
BHP boosts stake in SolGold
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BBL; LON: BLT) is raising its stake in SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LON: SOLG) from 6.1% to 11.18% and the US$50.2 million in proceeds will help the junior…
Bunker Hill defaults on payments and terminates lease at flagship project
Bunker Hill Mining (CSE: BNKR; US-OTC: BHLL) terminated its lease and option agreement to acquire the Bunker Hill zinc-lead-silver mine in Idaho after missing US$400,000 in property payments that were…
Silver & PGMs Snapshot: Mexico a magnet for Canada’s silver seekers
Silver remains a prime target for mineral explorers and miners, particularly those active in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Here is a look at five silver-focused companies plus a…