SilverCrest almost ready for production at Santa Elena
About 30,000 tonnes of coarse ore from SilverCrest Mines’ (SVL-V) Santa Elena open pit heap leach silver-gold …
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Kaminak Gold reignites Yukon gold district (May 27, 2010)
Kaminak Gold (KAM-V) shares jumped 49% or 44¢ apiece to $1.34 per share in Toronto following bonanza assa…
Positive feasibility study brings Detour Gold’s reserves to 11.4M oz.
A feasibility study on Detour Gold’s (DGC-T, DRGDF-O) Detour Lake gold project in northeastern Ontario has mad…
Chinese demand fuels Consolidated Thompson decision
Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines (CLM-T) is set to push ahead on a plan to double iron ore production at its B…
Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs?
Chief executives in the mining industry told PricewaterhouseCoopers in a recent survey that they feared cash-s…
KWG and Spider plan merger following Cliffs’ hostile bid
Juniors KWG Resources (KWG-V) and Spider Resources (SPQ-V) are planning to merge in an attempt fight off a pai…
Canadian Shield completes resource on Colpayoc in Peru
Canadian Shield Resources (EXP-V) has completed a maiden resource estimate on its Colpayoc gold proj…
Exeter pulls long gold intercepts at Caspiche (May 25, 2010)
Vancouver – Exeter Resource (XRC-T, XRA-X, EXB-F) has cut very long gold intercepts that expand the main miner…
Cliffs goes after majority stake in Big Daddy
Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) has made separate but similar cash offers to acquire KWG Resources (KWG-V) an…
East Asia Minerals extends Miwah Main zone to the West
Drilling at the Miwah project in Indonesia’s Aceh province in northern Sumatra has extended gold mineralizatio…
Western Copper permit denial raises questions about Yukon’s permitting process
VANCOUVER–The Carmacks copper project in the Yukon looked primed for development, with owner Western Copper (WRN-T) awaiting just one permit. But now that permit has been denied, after the territoria…
Buenaventura, Gold Fields make major gold discovery in Peru (May 24, 2010)
Just 18 months after drilling their first hole, joint-venture partners Minas Buenaventura (BVN-N) and Gold Fields (GFI-Q , GFI-J, GFI-D) have discovered a major gold-copper- silver deposit of 5.6 mill…