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Workers pour the first concrete at Roxgold's Yaramoko gold project in Burkina Faso. Source: Roxgold

Roxgold starts construction at Yaramoko

Roxgold (TSXV: ROG; US-OTC: ROGFF) has kicked off construction at its high-grade Yaramoko gold project in southwestern Burkina Faso, with an aim of starting production in the second quarter of 2016.


Looking north along the deposit's axis at Newmont Mining's Long Canyon gold project in northeast Nevada. Source: Newmont Mining

Newmont green-lights Long Canyon gold mine

VANCOUVER — Denver-based Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) is poised to open up a new gold district at its Long Canyon project along the eastern flank of the Pequop Mountains in northeastern Nevada. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)…


The Young-Davidson gold mine in northern Ontario's Abitibi greenstone belt. Source: Alamos Gold.

Alamos, AuRico unveil US$1.5B ‘merger of equals’

VANCOUVER — Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) and AuRico Gold (TSX: AUQ; NYSE: AUQ) have apparently been in an on-again, off-again courtship for years, but on April 13 the companies decided to tie the knot amidst a rising tide of merger…


The secondary crusher at Copper Mountain Mining's namesake copper mine in British Columbia. Credit: Copper Mountain Mining.

Technical troubles dog Copper Mountain in Q1

Mechanical difficulties at Copper Mountain Mining’s (TSX: CUM) 75%-owned Copper Mountain mine in southern B.C. involving a transformer failure on one of the ball mills in February and a 10-day disruption with the regrind mill in March…


Geologists working at Panoro Minerals' Cotabambas copper project in Peru. Source: Panoro Minerals

Panoro’s Cotabambas PEA a good start

Analysts believe Panoro Minerals’ (TSXV: PML; US-OTC: POROF) preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the Cotabambas project shows the copper-gold-silver-molybdenum porphyry deposit is viable, despite failing to impress investors. 


A Nautilus owned ship suspends underwater drilling equipment in the air. Source: Nautilus Minerals

Nautilus targets 2018 for undersea mining

VANCOUVER — It’s been a bounce-back 12 months for junior Nautilus Minerals (TSX: NUS; US-OTC: NSUMF), which has overcome a major sociopolitical hurdle to get back on track to develop the world’s first undersea mining operation…


Stacks of copper cathode at the Svedala mill, part of BHP's   Olympic Dam  processing operations in South Australia. Source: BHP

CRU Group sees copper supply deficit in 2018

Christine Meilton, principal consultant on copper supply and raw materials at independent commodities research firm CRU Group, predicts that supply side losses and slow ramp-ups in the smelting and refining sector will put a squeeze on supply…


Editorial: Canada, India reunite over uranium

How long do you hold a grudge before letting bygones be bygones? For the Canadian government, it’s about 40 years when it comes to the Indian government’s betrayal over its use of peaceful Canadian nuclear technology to build a…



The processing plant at SilverCrest Mines' Santa Elena silver-gold mine, 150 km northeast of Hermosillo, Mexico. Credit: Silvercrest Mines

SilverCrest sketches out Santa Elena’s future

VANCOUVER — It’s been a challenging twelve months for SilverCrest Mines (TSX: SVL; NYSE-MKT: SVLC), but the producer has adapted to lower metal prices at its Santa Elena epithermal silver-gold mine, 150 km northeast of Hermosillo,…


At the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto in March, from left: Al Shefsky, president of Pele Mountain Resources; Michael Gravelle, Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines; Janis Peleshok, director; Martin Cooper, vice-president of Aboriginal Affairs; and Margie Bugarin, resource administrator. Source: Pele Mountain Resources

Pele Mountain moves monazite processing plan ahead

When Pele Mountain Resources (TSXV: GEM; US-OTC: GOLDF) announced a strategy in October 2014 to extract and separate rare earth elements from monazite concentrate imported from overseas at its Eco Ridge project in Elliott Lake, the plan caught…


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