Privately held hedge fund Sun Valley Gold has added to its shareholding in Belo Sun Mining (TSX: BSX) with the purchase of 7 million shares at 19¢, bringing its total stake to 12.4% in the Brazil-focused gold explorer.
An amended royalty agreement with Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV; NYSE: FNV) has given Coeur Mining (NYSE: CDE) the breathing room it needs to consider completing the Guadalupe underground mine at its Palmarejo silver–gold complex in…
Capstone Mining (TSX: CS; US-OTC: CSFFF) has published a promising feasibility study for its Santo Domingo iron oxide–copper–gold project in Chile’s Region III, showing it could churn out an average 248 million lb. copper in…
Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY) has secured financing to bring its Aurora gold project in Guyana into production by mid-2015. The good news came in the form of approvals by a group of lenders to provide US$185 million in debt financing to cover…
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM; LSE: FQM) has made a friendly $470-million takeover offer for Lumina Copper (TSXV: LCC; US-OTC: LCPRF), ending a sale process for the junior and its Taca Taca copper–gold–molybdenum project in…
Fresh on the heels of the $470 million sale of Lumina Copper (TSXV: LCC) and its Taca Taca project in Argentina to First Quantum Metals (TSX: FM; LSE: FM) earlier this month, Lumina’s founder and largest shareholder, Ross Beaty, is making…
The Toronto Stock Exchange climbed near the record high it reached six years ago, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index adding 163 points to end at 15,001.61, slightly below the record close of 15,073 set in June 2008 before the recession.
LIMA, PERU — Sierra Metals (TSX: SMT; BVL: SMT) is proving up the underground potential of its Yauricocha silver–lead–copper–zinc–gold mine in west-central Peru. The low-cost underground mine is the company’s…
GoldQuest Mining (TSXV: GQC; US-OTC: GDQMF) has tabled a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its flagship project, consisting of the Romero and Romero South gold–copper deposits, two years after discovering the main deposit…
Shares in Trevali Mining (TSX: TV; US-OTC: TREVF) got a little boost after the Vancouver-based firm reported two new zones of high-grade polymetallic mineralization at its Santander zinc–lead–silver underground mine in Peru.
Calibre Mining (TSXV: CXB; US-OTC: CXBMF) saw its shares surge 43% after reporting that Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) had signed an option to spend US$10.9 million to earn up to 70% of the junior’s Eastern Borosi gold–silver project…
VANCOUVER — In the first step of what would be a long road to reconciliation, Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) has signed an initial agreement with most of the indigenous groups in Chile that oppose the company’s suspended…
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