Chakana Copper advances Soledad in Peru
Since exploration began in August 2017 at its Soledad copper-gold-silver project in Peru, Chakana Copper (TSXV: PERU; US-OTC: CHKKF) has drilled four of 17 confirmed breccia pipes, pinpointed another 12…
South America
Sable expands Margarita silver project with best intercept to date
Sable Resources (TSXV: SAE; US-OTC: SBLRF) has extended the mineralized corridor at its Margarita silver project in Chihuahua State, Mexico, 350 metres to the northwest with results from its ongoing…
Interview: Iron ore markets won’t quickly recover from Vale disaster, says Black Iron’s Simpson
In the following interview excerpt, iron ore expert Matt Simpson, co-founder and CEO of junior Black Iron (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF), explains the new landscape for iron ore markets worldwide…
Guyana Goldfields’ reserves drop 43% with new deposit model
The amount of gold in proven and probable reserves at Guyana Goldfields’ (TSX: GUY) Aurora mine in Guyana has been lowered 1.69 million oz., compared with estimates a year ago,…
Amarillo Gold reinterprets Posse deposit with new resource model
Amarillo Gold (TSXV: AGC; US-OTC: AGCBF) has used a new resource model to reinterpret the Posse gold deposit and update the resource estimate for its Mara Rosa gold project in…
TSX Venture rises, March 18-22: Macarthur, Luminex and Mirasol
Shares of Macarthur Minerals rose 100% to 10¢. The company signed a life-of-mine offtake agreement to sell Glencore International iron ore that could be produced from Macarthur’s Lake Giles iron…
B2Gold earmarks US$43M for global exploration
B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: BTG) was created as a junior exploration company in 2007, and since then it has grown to become an intermediate gold producer, with five mines in…
Continental tables resource for Buritica’s BMZ1 in Colombia
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has announced a discrete resource estimate for the Broad Mineralized Zone 1 (BMZ1) in the central-west portion of the Yaragua system at its Buritica…
Sandspring rethinks Toroparu in Guyana
Sandspring Resources (TSXV: SSP; US-OTC: SSPXF) is putting the finishing touches on a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Toroparu gold project in Guyana that rescopes the project’s prefeasibility study…
BMO cuts Vale production estimates after additional mine closure
BMO Capital Markets has cut Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) iron ore production estimate this year by a further 30 million tonnes due to the continued suspension of the miner’s Brucutu mine,…
Toachi advances La Plata project in Ecuador
Toachi Mining (TSXV: TIM) is trenching its Guatuza gold-copper target at its La Plata volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project in Ecuador. It plans to drill Guatuza in the second half…
Colombia, Ecuador & Peru Snapshot: Eight juniors on the hunt for minerals
Despite centuries of local mining history, the northern Andes remain under-explored by modern standards, and the region stands as one of the favourite destinations of the world’s mineral explorers. Here…