Armed bandits kill Semafo employee and subcontractor in Burkina Faso
A Semafo (TSX: OMX) employee and a subcontractor are dead after armed bandits shot at a bus transporting the company’s workers 80 km from the…
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Bayhorse Silver backtracks on disclosure
Bayhorse Silver (TSXV: BHS; US-OTC: KXPLF) has reported high-grade silver samples taken from the newly accessible Big Dog mineralized zone at the past producing Bayhorse…
Lydian struggles with debt repayment and blockade
Senior lenders have agreed to extend Lydian International‘s (TSX: LYD) initial debt repayment by two weeks to August 31. The extension follows an earlier two-week…
Orsu Metals encounters gold in Siberia
Orsu Metals (TSXV: OSU) has identified a 200 metre-wide, steeply-dipping gold stockwork in the Klyuchi West zone at its Sergeevskoe gold project in Russia. Drill…
Gold Fields faces restructuring after losses and impairment charge
Gold Fields (NYSE: GFI) has posted an impairment charge of US$359 million in the first half of the year at its troubled South Deep mine…
American Pacific Mining drills gold in Elko
Vancouver-based American Pacific Mining (CSE: USGD; US-OTC: USGDF) has reported encouraging results from its first phase drilling program at the Turscarora gold project in Elko,…
Osisko Mining to acquire Beaufield Resources
Osisko Mining (TSX:OSK) is stitching together a larger land package around its Windfall project in northern Quebec with its proposed $17.5 million all-share acquisition of…
Malian gov’t to double stake in B2Gold’s Fekola mine
B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: BTG) is reporting the Malian government intends to buy an additional 10% stake in B2Gold’s Fekola gold mine in western Mali….
Barrick and NovaGold’s Donlin project receives federal permits
The Donlin gold project — one of the largest and highest grade undeveloped open-pit gold endowments in the world — has received a record of…
AngloGold terminates JV with Equinox
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) has terminated the earn-in joint venture at Equinox Gold’s (TSXV: EQX; US-OTC: EQXGF) Aurizona gold mine project in northeastern Brazil. Equinox…
First Majestic reports Q2 loss
Shares of First Majestic Silver (TSX: FR; NYSE: AG) were down 15% to $7.21 on the Toronto Stock Exchange at midday, after the company released…
McEwen Mining borrows US$50M for Gold Bar construction
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) has closed a US$50 million senior secured 3-year term loan first announced in late May, with the funds earmarked…