Positive economics for Andean’s Cerro Negro (July 07, 2010)
Vancouver – A feasibility study on Andean Resources’ (AND-T, AND-A) Cerro Negro gold-silver project in Argenti…
South America
Gold Hawk in Peru no more
The market likes a good deal, and it signaled its approval of Gold Hawk Resoruces’ (GHK-V) latest asset sale b…
Dorato hits more high grade at Cordillera Del Condor
Vancouver – The first drill program ever conducted at the Cordillera del Condor project in northwest Peru cont…
MBAC plans to mine phosphate in Brazil
Brazil has a fertilizer problem and a company called MBAC Fertilizer (MBC-T) is looking to capitalize on it by transforming a small phosphate mine, in a growing agricultural region of central Brazil, into a sizeable value-added operation by…
Time for a second look at Bolivia
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — With national elections out of the way here and a spate of local polls completed and showing something of a setback for the populist Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government, the political dust is settling in Bolivia and…
LETTERS TO EDITOR
In regards to the article “New challenge for Chile’s ‘Copper Man'” ( T. N. M., May 24-30/10), exploration would soar in Chile if junior mining companies were allowed to bid on even a percentage of the…
Argentex finds new silver-gold zone at Pinguino
The Tranquillo trend, a northwest regional feature that crosscuts 11 km of Argentex’s (ATX-V, AGXM-O) Pinguino property in Patagonia, Argentina, contains wide intervals of high-grade silver, the compa…
Quadra FNX loses Chinese partner for Sierra Gorda (June 28, 2010)
A Chinese utility company has walked away from a potential 50-50 joint-venture deal with recently-merged Quadra FNX Mining (QUX-T) for its Sierra Gorda copper-gold- molybdenum project and Franke coppe…
Vale goes big and goes home
The 24th trading week of the year saw the world’s biggest iron ore miner — Vale — and Germany’s biggest steelmaker — ThyssenKrupp Steel — usher in a new era in steelmaking in Brazil.
Peregrine pulls long copper hits at Altar
VANCOUVER — The Altar copper porphyry in Argentina is returning long mineralized intercepts as Peregrine Metals (PGM-T) looks ahead to developing a large-scale heap-leach operation at the site.Peregrine recently completed a 76-hole drill…
Patagonia Gold advances exploration in Argentina
Patagonia Gold (PGD-L) is all cashed up to develop larger and cheaper gold projects in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province.Earlier this month, the company raised US$18.79 million in a share placement and US$13.45 million in a similar exercise in…
Colossus Minerals discovers two new mineralized zones at Serra Pelada
Nearly a quarter of a century after Serra Pelada hosted the largest precious metals rush in Latin American his…