Editorial: Mining Sector Layoffs Pick Up Steam
Quite a few miners across Canada and beyond rang in the new year with layoff notices, as the autumn commodities bust worked its way into the employment scene.
South America
Stratagold ups gold resource at Dublin Gulch
Vancouver – A new resource estimate for Stratagold’s (SGV-T) Dublin Gulch project in the Yukon has added 700,…
Uruguay Minerals revises San Gregorio guidance
With about 20 exploration projects on the go, it would be easy for Uruguay Mineral Exploration (UME-V, UGY-L) to lo…
Ecuador’s new mining law one step closer to reality
New mining legislation has passed yet another hurdle in Ecuador this week, buoying hopes that foreign mining compan…
Carpathian eyes Riacho dos Machodos redux
Vancouver – Drilling beneath and beyond the past-producing open pit at the Riacho dos Machodos (RDM) gold pro…
Pan American ramping up 2009 silver production
Vancouver – Despite cutting its workforce by about 500 employees, reigning in expenditures on exploration and…
B2Gold moves ahead with Gramalote project
Now that B2Gold (BTO-T) has had a look at more than 30,000 metres worth of drill core assays from its Gramalote gol…
Spectacular drill results for Colossus at Serra Pelada
Drilling at the site of Brazil’s epic 1980s gold rush at Serra Pelada is yielding spectacular results for joi…
Gold Reserve, Rusoro Continue War Of Words
Calling Rusoro Mining’s (RML-V, RMLFF-O) unsolicited takeover bid “opportunistic” and “financially inadequate,” Gold Reserve’s (GRZ-T, GRZ-X) board of directors has unanimously recommended that shareh…
StrataGold Sees Solid Results In Drilling At Purple Heart
StrataGold (SGV-T, SAGDF-O) and 50% joint-venture partner, Newmont Overseas Exploration, received some encouraging results from 2,000 metres of drilling plus trench work on the BRL Venture, about 26 k…
First Bauxite’s ‘Huge Vision’
VANCOUVER — There’s a new junior exploring for bauxite, the redcoloured rock that provides the world with aluminum. And the company is no shrinking violet — with support from a major, First Bauxite …
New Gold puts Amapari mine on care and maintenance
Six years ago mining tycoon Ian Telfer described the Amapari gold mine in Brazil as “one of the best undevelo…