Mega Precious gets the cash to push on Monument Bay
Mega Precious Metals (TSXV: MGP) has secured financing to drive its Monument Bay gold project in Manitoba to the next level.
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Rio Tinto charts path to cut spending and boost returns
VANCOUVER — At a shareholder meeting in Sydney, Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) executive team laid out a plan to reinvigorate the world’s second-largest miner.
Stratabound unbound in New Brunswick
VANCOUVER — It has been a bit of a tough year for Calgary-based junior Stratabound Minerals (TSXV: SB; US-OTC: SBMLF) at its wholly owned Captain North Extension (CNE) zinc–lead–silver deposit in the prolific Bathurst…
Coastal Gold makes headway
Coastal Gold (TSXV: COD) has updated the resource estimate for its Hope Brook gold project on the southwestern coast of Newfoundland, with grades in the indicated category 30% higher than in the last resource estimate completed in October 2012.
Carlisle Goldfields unveils economics for Lynn Lake camp
VANCOUVER — It has been a busy 18 months for Toronto-based junior Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: CGJ; US-OTC: CGJCF) at its wholly owned, 285 sq. km property package across the historic Lynn Lake greenstone belt in northern Manitoba….
Taseko heads to court to shelve New Prosperity panel findings
VANCOUVER — Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) is certain Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) used the wrong project design in assessing the tailings storage facility at the proposed New Properity mine, a fundamental error that led the…
Slam keeps busy at Menneval
Slam Exploration’s (TSXV: SXL; US-OTC: SLMXF) CEO Mike Taylor, a veteran geologist, had more than a hunch that there should be other gold deposits near Saint-Quentin, N.B., after local prospector Tim Lavoie discovered a gold deposit there…
Morien has big plans for Donkin
Morien Resources (TSXV: MOX; US-OTC: APMCF) is three steps closer to putting the massive Donkin coal deposit into production next year.
Wolfden digs into Armstrong
Wolfden Resources (TSXV: WLF) is looking to repeat the success of its former namesake, and if it can do it, it will take the province of New Brunswick along for the ride.
Vale commissions hydromet nickel plant at Long Harbour
VANCOUVER — Twenty years after Diamond Fields Resources discovered nickel in at Voisey’s Bay in Labrador and eight years after Vale (NYSE: VALE) predecessor Inco started mining, work is now wrapping up on a state-of-the-art…
LionGold could be looking for a project near you
Two years ago what is now Singapore-listed LionGold (SGX: SIGO) was called “Think Environmental Co.,” and it held investments and managed businesses in the renewable energy sector.
Atico steams ahead
Atico Mining (TSXV: ATY; US-OTC: ATCMF) became a producing mining company when it acquired 90% of the El Roble mine — the only producing copper mine in Colombia.