Last week, we presented the Canadian exploration projects highlighted at the Mineral Exploration Roundup presented by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC). This week, we turn to the international scene.
While gold, silver, copper and rare earths have been drawing much of the markets’ attention in the metals space recently, another metal has been quietly gathering steam.
Brazil’s recently elected government has signaled that it won’t be business as usual when it comes to mining iron ore in the South American country. In early November Brazilians replaced popular President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – who…
Trevali Renewable Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trevali Resources (tv-t), has awarded Peru-based TECSUR a contract to build the power transmission line from its Santander silver-lead-zinc mine to the Peruvian national grid, Sistema…
Eaglecrest Explorations (eel-v) turned in some interesting results from a first-pass sampling program at its Fredonia gold project in Colombia. The highlight assay returned 8.25 grams gold per tonne and 47.5 grams silver per tonne and came from…
Rio Alto Mining (rio-v) is raising $50 million in a private placement to fund its La Arena copper-gold project 480 km northwest of Lima in Peru.A syndicate of underwriters led by GMP Securities and including Scotia Capital, Clarus Securities…
Results for the remaining 21 holes completed during a first pass of drilling on the Julia vein target confirm Mirasol Resources (mrz-v) has made a significant high-grade silver discovery at its wholly owned Virginia project in Argentina’s Santa…
The second week of 2011 was a breathtaking one in the Canadian base metals scene, with three substantial deals.
Five days after shares of Seafield Resources (sff-v) soared 147% to 57¢ on drill results of 449 metres grading 1.29 grams gold per tonne at its Miraflores gold deposit in Risaralda, Colombia, the junior has moved its drills 3 km to the…
Any company whose stock has moved from 93¢ per share to a high of $8.00 over the course of a year deserves a closer look, and so it is with Amazon Mining Holding (amz-v).
HudBay Minerals (hbm-t, hbm-n) is looking to venture farther south than it ever has before to acquire its next project. The company has made a friendly $520-million pitch to Norsemont Mining’s (nom-t) shareholders in the hope of nabbing…
Galway Resources (gwy-v) has released several significant gold-silver hits from its California project in Colombia just as it announces a $25-million financing.The latest results come largely from the Pie de Gallo zone, a 300-metre-long…
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