After a false start in 2008, Baja Mining (BAJ-T) now has funding fully secured and is moving ahead with building its 70%-owned Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project in Mexico’s Baja California Sur state.
With 56% of juniors listed on the TSX Venture Exchange focused on precious metals, it’s no surprise that gold and copper-gold projects dominated Mineral Exploration Roundup held here in late January. But some unconventional projects were…
Three years, millions of dollars, and thousands of pages of impact studies later, there is still no guarantee that Strateco Resources (RSC-T) will be allowed to explore underground on its Matoush uranium project in northern Quebec’s Otish…
In six years, Cyprus-based EMED Mining (EMD-T, EMED-L) has grown from being little more than a concept to a company with very real plans to restart copper production this year from the historic Rio Tinto open-pit copper mine in southwestern…
A little ways off a quiet highway in eastern Nevada, freshly re-branded American Vanadium (AVC-V) is working to bring a vanadium heap-leach operation to life.
Resolute Mining (RSG-X) – the second-largest gold producer listed on the Australian Stock Exchange – may be preparing to wind down its Golden Pride mine in Tanzania in East Africa over the next 24 months after twelve very successful years and…
SITE VISIT: Balfour, South Africa – In July 2006, Great Basin Gold (GBG-T) started building its Burnstone gold mine in South Africa, looking to be the first new gold producer in the Witwatersrand basin in 30 years.
On paper Royal Nickel (RNX-T) looks like a winning combination: A management and advisory team stacked with former Inco guys and seven billion pounds of nickel in the ground in the Abitibi region of Quebec, one of the friendliest mining…
SITE VISIT: Lima, Peru – The Santander mine project located 215 km from this coastal city has historic assets and strategic advantages that should help Trevali Resources (TV-T) achieve its goal of becoming Latin America’s newest…
In late December 2010 a spokesman for the National Democratic Front (NDF), a confederation that encompasses many of the Philippines’ leftist groups – including the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its New People’s Army (NPA)…
Santiago, Chile – Last October’s miraculous rescue of 33 trapped miners at San Jose has catapulted Chile’s Mines Minister Laurence Golborne to the forefront of national politics, even to the point that some are talking of him as a possible…
Toronto-based Detour Gold (DGC-T) will resist takeover attempts as the junior focuses on increasing and developing its resources at the Detour Lake project in northern Ontario, already the largest pure gold play in North America, says president…
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