South America


A bucket-wheel extractor at BHP Billiton's Spence copper mine in Chile. Photo by BHP Billiton

BHP boosts copper resources at Spence

Resources at BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) Spence copper mine in northern Chile has grown by nearly 700%, following a four-year, US$30-million brownfield exploration program.


Lupaka ups its ownership in Crucero

Lupaka Gold (LPK-T) now indirectly owns 100% of the Crucero gold project in southeastern Peru, after buying the remaining 40% stake of a subsidiary that held the deposit for US$9.2 million in cash and stock.


Minefinders' Dolores open-pit gold-silver mine in northern Mexico. Photo by Minefinders

Pan American looks to Minefinders

Driving down cash costs, generating immediate cash flows and building itself into the world’s largest primary silver producer sound like good enough reasons for Pan American Silver (PAA-T, PAAS-Q) to table a friendly takeover bid for fellow…


Kinross tumbles on project delays

Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N) fell more than 20% after it said it is reviewing its three major advanced gold projects to improve economics, likely causing months of delay and a goodwill write down of the Tasiast gold project in Mauritania.


US Gold's El Gallo gold project in Sinaloa state, Mexico. Photo by US Gold

Merger of US Gold, Minera Andes goes ahead

When Rob McEwen first proposed the combination of US Gold (UXG-T, UXG-N) and Minera Andes (MAI-T, MNEAF-O) in June 2011, the chairman, chief executive and largest shareholder of both companies thought the deal easily could be completed by early…


Core boxes at the Caspiche project in northern Chile's Maricunga gold district. Credit: Exeter Resource.

Exeter completes prefeasibility on Caspiche

The Caspiche gold-copper project in northern Chile’s Maricunga gold district has a US$2.8-billion pre-tax net present value at a 5% discount rate and a pre-tax internal rate of return of 11.5%, according to Exeter Resource’s (XRC-T, XRA-X) new…



A drill rig at Guyana Goldfields' Aurora gold project in Guyana. Photo by Guyana Goldfields

Guyana Goldfields sizes up Aurora gold project

Guyana Goldfields (GUY-T) will release the findings of a definitive feasibility study on its Aurora gold project in late February following a four-week peer review, the company says, and a revised resource estimate will be out before the end of…



A loader filling a dump truck at Goldcorp's Penasquito polymetallic mine in Mexico. Photo by Goldcorp

Goldcorp falls short of production targets, again

Before Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) began commercial production at its expanded Red Lake gold mine on Jan. 1, 2001, the company was a 100,000- oz.-a-year mid-tier gold producer struggling to become a senior gold miner. But by the end of the year, Red…


Lupaka gains 100% ownership of Crucero

Lupaka Gold (LPK-T) now indirectly owns 100% of the Crucero gold project in Peru, after buying the remaining 40% stake of a subsidiary that held the deposit for US$9.2 million in cash and stock.


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