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The hill where Euromax Resources' Ilovica copper-gold porphyry lies, beyond the villages of Ilovica and Shtuka in Macedonia.Credit: Euromax Resources

Euromax sees a bright future for mining in Macedonia

It’s full steam ahead for aspiring miner Euromax Resources (TSXV: EOX) in Macedonia, as the company positions its Ilovica copper-gold porphyry deposit, 15 km west of the border with Bulgaria, to become the European country’s first…


Warwick Board, Pretium Resources' chief geologist, inspects a sample while conducting regional exploration at the Brucejack gold project in British Columbia. Credit: Pretium Resources.

Pretium explores porphyry potential at Brucejack

VANCOUVER — Warwick Board, chief geologist at Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG), says excitement is building for exploration at the company’s Brucejack project in northwestern B.C., as his team zeroes in on discoveries…


Claude Resources' flagship  Seabee gold operation, located in northeastern Saskatchewan. Credit: Claude Resources

Top gold performers in 2015

Since the commodities downturn started four years ago, gold companies have sought ways to reduce costs and push ahead. The spot gold price ended 2015 at US$1,061 per oz., down 10% for the year and 36% since closing 2012 at US$1,664 per oz….



The Great Hall of the People at the western edge of Tiananmen Square in China's capital Beijing. Photo by Zheng Zhou.

Worry over Chinese demand is overdone, Aussie analyst says

While people in the mining sector wring their hands about slowing growth in China, declining demand for base metals and collapsing prices, they’re all missing one key point, according to an Australian mining engineer, research…






Dominion Diamond's majority-owned Ekati diamond mine in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories.Credit: Dominion Diamond

Short-term challenges remain for diamond sector

The long-term outlook for the diamond market is positive — with demand expected to outpace supply starting in 2019 — but in the short-term, the outlook remains challenging, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre and Bain & Co. state…


A screen shot of the wreckage caused by a large-scale tailing dam breach at the Samarco iron-ore joint venture in Brazil's Minas Gerais State. Source: YouTube

Editorial: Top stories of 2015

Phew, was 2015 a tough year for miners! As we look back and tie a bow around the fourth year of the downturn in commodity prices and the mining sector, we see an industry in defensive mode, spending more time and energy reacting to harsh,…


Al Sexton (left), project manager, and Joseph Campbell, TerraX Minerals' president and CEO, at the Yellowknife City gold project in the Northwest Territories.  Credit: TerraX Minerals

TerraX lines up new gold targets for 2016

VANCOUVER — There’s certainly no lack of high-grade gold targets for TerraX Minerals (TSXV: TXR) to shoot for at its Yellowknife City gold project, located in a district it refers to as “Canada’s last undeveloped…


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