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Potash remains a hot commodity on the Canadian prairies

VANCOUVER — With world populations marching ever upward, and an updated forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimating the largest U.S. corn crop in 75 years through 2012, it comes as no surprise that potash exploration…


Belo Sun Mining raises estimate on Volta

It’s been a busy few days for Belo Sun Mining (BSX-T). On Monday the Toronto-based junior adopted a shareholder rights plan, followed on Wednesday with an updated resource estimate for the two deposits in Brazil that make up its flagship…


La Ronge district regaining some of its old shine

VANCOUVER — In the 1980s Saskatchewan’s La Ronge gold belt was booming, with between 60 and 80 companies exploring on the ground and several hundred thousand ounces being pulled out of the ground. But a tough market and mixed…



Seafield shores up Miraflores

With the release of its first preliminary economic assessment on its Miraflores project in Colombia, Seafield Resources (SFF-V) has given the market something to chew on.


Impact Silver reaps more high-grade

Second phase drilling at the Oscar project in Mexico has returned intercepts of 1,875 grams silver per tonne over 1 metre and 115 grams silver over 23.39 metres, Impact Silver (IPT-V) reports.


Boleo cost increase triggers Baja share sell-off

VANCOUVER — Markets have recently demonstrated that when cost optics or feasibilities suddenly shift on an advance-stage mining project, the company in question will inevitably face investor-driven wrath. So the story goes for…



Mining the Brimstone deposit at Allied Nevada Gold's Hycroft open-pit gold mine in Humboldt County, Nevada. Photo by Allied Nevada Gold

Allied Nevada hot on Hycroft-Hasbrouck plan

It’s looking like a big year for Reno-based Allied Nevada Gold (AVN-T, AVN-X), with a US$1.2-billion expansion plan underway at its wholly owned Hycroft gold-silver mine in Humboldt County and a proposed US$78-million, heap-leach…


Mills currently stored in Tuscon for Augusta Resource's Rosemont copper-molybdenum-silver project located 50 km southeast in Pima County, Arizona. Photo by Augusta Resource

Augusta moves Rosemont forward

Augusta Resource (AZC-T, AZC-X) is slowly but surely pushing its Rosemont project in Arizona towards production by securing the sixth major permit needed to start building the primarily copper project located in Pima County, 50 km southeast of…


Kaminak Gold's vice-president of exploration Tim Smith at the Coffee gold project in the Yukon's White Gold district. Photo by Ian Bickis

The Yukon gold rush matures

The Yukon gold exploration season is ramping up for another year, looking a little more restrained for 2012 but still full of potential.



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