South America

Quadra Mining To Buy Centenario Copper

VANCOUVER — Patience has paid off for Quadra Mining (QUA-T, QADMF-O). The Vancouver-based company, which has been quietly stockpiling cash from its Robinson copper-gold mine in Nevada, waiting for th…


A map showing the location of Tiomin Resources' 49%-owned Pukaqaqa copper-gold deposit in Peru, one of the assets the company would bring to the table in a proposed merger with Cadiscor Resources.

Cadiscor And Tiomin To Combine

The proposed merger of Cadiscor Resources (CAO-V, CADRF-O) and Tiomin Resources (TIO-T, TMIRF-O) will create a new company that will be well capitalized to become an intermediate gold producer, manage…


Overgrown artisanal mine workings at Colossus Minerals' Serra Pelada gold-platinum group elements project in Brazil. The project was the site of an epic gold rush in the 1980s.

Colossus Advances Serra Pelada, Raises $20.5M

The first systematic assay results for the full suite of platinum group elements at Colossus Minerals’ (CSI-T, COLUF-O) Serra Pelada project in Brazil appear to confirm what Vic Wall, the company’s pr…




Court Blocks Rusoro Bid For Gold Reserve

Rusoro Mining (RML-V, RMLFF-O) has dropped its hostile takeover offer for Gold Reserve (GRZ-T, GRZ-X), after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued an interlocutory injunction on Feb. 10 stoppin…



Testing samples in the laboratory at Fortuna Silver Mines' Caylloma silver-zinc-lead mine in the southern highlands of Arequipa, Peru.

Fortuna Silver Production On The Rise

After increasing silver production by 85% in 2008, Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI-V, FVITF-O) is planning to keep the trend going with an 80% rise this year.



‘Porkulus’ To Stoke Inflation

The financial world during the fifth trading week of the year was dominated by the haggling in Washington, D. C., over the size and content of the federal government’s unprecedentedly large stimulus b…


Hillside drilling at Andean Resources' Cerro Negro gold-silver project in Santa Cruz province, Argentina. Recent results have expanded zones at the Eureka West vein, where bonanza-grade gold has been intercepted.

Andean Resources Cuts High-Grade Gold In Argentina

VANCOUVER — Deep stepout drilling on the Eureka West vein has expanded the size of zones showing bonanza-grade gold for Andean Resources (AND-T, AND-A) at its Cerro Negro property in the province of …


In addition to its US$850-million sale of undeveloped potash assets to Brazil's Vale, Rio Tinto will get US$750 million for its Corumba open-pit iron ore mine (above), in Brazil.

Rio Tinto Sells More Assets To Pare US$37B Debt

Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) continues to hack away at its immense debt load with sales to Vale (RIO-N) of its undeveloped potash assets in Argentina and Canada and an iron ore mine in Brazil for US$1.6 b…


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