Yukon gov’t extends staking ban in Peel watershed
The Yukon government has extended a mineral-staking ban in the Peel watershed until May 4, 2013, while it develops a land-use plan for the region. The ban was set to expire on Sept. 4.
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Commentary: New guidance for disclosing PEAs in Canada
On Aug. 16, 2012, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Staff Notice 43-307 Mining Technical Reports — Preliminary Economic Assessments, which sets out staff’s position on several issues regarding the use and…
Editorial: A season for tough decisions
September is always a pivotal month in the business year, with eight months of recent asset performance to sift through and a need to plan for the year ahead. It’s a time for many to take a cold look at whether business units have lived…
NuLegacy gets in line on Nevada’s Cortez trend
A little over two decades ago Roger Steininger made a major gold discovery in Nevada by bucking conventional wisdom. Today he’s trying to do it again.Steininger has found himself chief operations officer and a director at Nevada-focused…
Silver Wheaton’s Smallwood paddles world’s silver streams
Silver Wheaton (SLW-T, SLW-N) has come a long way in a short time. Formed in 2004 out of Wheaton River Mineral’s silver assets, the company is now the biggest silver-streaming company in the world.
Torex plans 2015 start-up for Morelos
Torex Gold Resources (TXG-T) shares saw heavy trading after the company released a bankable feasibility study for its Morelos project in Mexico’s prolific Guerrero gold belt, as well as more drill results from the project’s…
Midas’ golden dreams for Golden Meadows
Midas Gold (MAX-T) has outlined a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Golden Meadows gold project in Idaho, 153 km northeast of Boise.“It’s a very mining-friendly jurisdiction,” Stephen Quin,…
Rainy River adds more shine to PEA
Rainy River Resources’ (RR-T) updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) proposes a smaller, higher-grade and lower-cost gold mine at its namesake project in northwestern Ontario. Given the current negative market conditions, the…
Paramount grows resource at San Miguel
Paramount Gold and Silver (PZG-T, PZG-X) has bulked-up its Mexican resources in a serious way. The company released an updated resource estimate for its wholly owned San Miguel project in the country, boosting indicated gold resources by 547%,…
Vista keeps growing Mt. Todd
Vista Gold (VGZ-T, VGZ-X) has bulked up its resource estimate for its Batman deposit at the company’s Mt. Todd gold project in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Exco Resources fights takeover bid
Just two weeks after the board of Australian junior Exco Resources (ESX-A) rejected a hostile all-cash takeover offer from one of its institutional shareholders, the explorer released an updated resource estimate for its Turpentine copper-gold…
Helio gets the numbers on SMP
Helio Resource (HRC-V) looks to have a promising project on its hands . . . especially if it can prove up the integrity of a future pit wall.