Miranda looks for a winning ticket
This year marks Miranda Gold’s (MAD-V) most active drill season to date, with partners spending between $5 million and $7 million to test at least seven of the company’s nine joint-venture projects.
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Commentary: Time for Canadian miners to import U.S. outreach tactics
There has been a significant paradigm shift in public activism in Canada and a growing hostility toward mining and dogmatic opposition by environmentalists and social action groups toward virtually all mining and energy projects. This new…
Diamonds: as good as gold for investors?
The financial crisis of 2008 was the first time that many investors experienced first-hand the worst-case scenarios of investing. In response to that frightening experience, and the ongoing global financial…
Planetary Resources’ plan to mine asteroids
A start-up company with high-profile supporters has set out to boldly go where no miner has gone before — to extract the resource riches of outer space.
Marathon beats chest at Golden Chest
After releasing a maiden resource estimate last month for its 50%-owned Golden Chest gold mine project in Idaho, Marathon Gold (MOZ-T) is back in the news with drill results that the junior explorer describes as a “very encouraging…
Gold Standard strikes again at Railroad
VANCOUVER — It looks like Gold Standard Ventures (GV-V) has done it again. The company’s shares jumped 51% or 91¢ on April 26 following the release of new results from the North Bullion zone at its Railroad gold property…
Coeur d’Alene gets a handle on Kensington
Opening up a new mine is seldom an even process.
Planetary Resources’ plan to mine asteroids
A start-up company with high-profile supporters has set out to boldly go where no miner has gone before — to extract the resource riches of outer space.
Curis plays the role of innovator and educator at Florence
VANCOUVER — When it comes to the mining industry’s grand stage, companies are often required to play a number of different roles. The tale is much the same for Hunter Dickinson-backed Curis Resources (CUV-T) in its gambit to develop…
Allied Nevada hot on Hycroft-Hasbrouck plan
It’s looking like a big year for Reno-based Allied Nevada Gold (AVN-T, AVN-X), with a US$1.2-billion expansion plan underway at its wholly owned Hycroft gold-silver mine in Humboldt County and a proposed US$78-million, heap-leach…
Augusta moves Rosemont forward
Augusta Resource (AZC-T, AZC-X) is slowly but surely pushing its Rosemont project in Arizona towards production by securing the sixth major permit needed to start building the primarily copper project located in Pima County, 50 km southeast of…
Energy Fuels to buy Denison’s U.S. uranium assets
Energy Fuels (EFR-T), which is striving to become a leading pure-play uranium producer, has recently entered a $106-million all-stock deal for Denison Mines’ (DML-T, DNN-X) uranium assets and operations in the United States.