Site visit: FireFly Metals seeks high-grade copper crown
BAIE VERTE, N.L. – Hundreds of metres underground inside a tunnel in northwest Newfoundland, and illuminated only by head lamps, is the precise area where FireFly Metals’ (ASX, TSX: FFM)…
Canada
Canada advances plan to freeze Giant mine’s toxic waste
Canada’s $4.4-billion plan to cope with a poisonous legacy at a former gold mine in the Northwest Territories risks complicating local efforts to find a permanent solution. Ottawa is moving…
Kinterra matches Central Asia’s bid for New World
Kinterra Capital has made an improved offer to buy Australia’s New World Resources (ASX: NWC) as it looks to beat London-listed Central Asia Metals (LSE: CAML) in the takeover battle. On…
Arizona Metals plunges as Kay resource disappoints
Arizona Metals (TSX: AMC; OTCQX: AZMCF) shares plunged to their lowest level in more than four years after a long-awaited initial resource estimate for the company’s Kay polymetallic project revealed a…
BHP builds $10.6B Jansen mine for potash footprint
The biggest private investment in Saskatchewan history is nearing the finish line. BHP (NYSE, LSE, ASX: BHP) is more than 60% of the way towards completing stage one of the…
US Antimony’s Fostung buy to offer Canadian tungsten
United States Antimony (NYSEA: UAMY) plans to fast-track development of its new Fostung tungsten property in Ontario, it said Friday. U.S. Antimony, based in Dallas, paid $5 million (C$6.9…
Mali to restart production at Barrick’s Loulo‑Gounkoto
Mali’s government plans to restart operations at Barrick Mining’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: B) Loulo‑Gounkoto gold complex under a court-appointed temporary administrator after seizing control earlier this month, according to a…
Kodiak Copper’s MPD resource stacks up against major BC porphyries
Kodiak Copper (TSX-V: KDK, OTCQB: KDKCF) released its first resource figures for the MPD copper-gold project in southern British Columbia. The new estimate, released late Wednesday, covers four of seven…
Season’s first hole hits high grades for Sitka Gold
Sitka Gold’s (TSXV: SIG; US-OTC: SITKF) first completed hole of its summer drilling program cut highlight results as high as 73.2 metres grading 2.05 grams gold per tonne in the…
Kenorland options three Ontario projects to Centerra
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD; OTCQ-X: KLDCF) said it’s optioned three early-stage gold projects located in Northwestern Ontario to Centerra Gold (TSX: CG; NYSE: CGAU) with a view of developing the…
Receiver to sell disaster-hit Eagle mine
One year after the Eagle mine in Yukon suffered a catastrophic landslide, the company overseeing Victoria Gold’s former site is looking to sell the mine as the cleanup effort proceeds. …
BC’s Golden Triangle taps gov’t investment, new rules
British Columbia’s Golden Triangle, despite its remoteness and rough terrain, is thriving thanks to a mining revival, attracting both exploration minnows and major miners. The prospective region is about 500…