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Drillers working at Wellgreen Platinum's namesake PGM-nickel project the southern Yukon. Credit: Wellgreen Platinum

Wellgreen Platinum scales down PGM project

Wellgreen Platinum (TSX: WG; US-OTC: WGPLF) has delivered an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Wellgreen platinum group metals and nickel deposit, in the southern Yukon, that cuts capital costs and the project’s mine…



A conveyor moves ore out of the crusher at Hudbay Minerals' new Constancia copper mine in southern Peru. Credit: Hudbay Minerals

Hudbay looks forward to big returns on investment in 2015

VANCOUVER — According to Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) president and CEO David Garofalo the past year marked a “turning point” for the company that will see roughly five years of expansion and capital investment…


A pile of the first copper concentrate produced at Imperial Metals' Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern B.C. Credit: Imperial Metals

Imperial opens Red Chris in BC

VANCOUVER — Imperial Metals (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF) celebrated the first production of copper concentrate on Feb. 17 at its newly built Red Chris copper-gold mine, 80 km south of Dease Lake in northwestern B.C.


A drill site at Ivanhoe Mines' Kamoa copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

Lateral thinking pays off for Ivanhoe at Kamoa

VANCOUVER — For the second time in just over a decade, Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) is taking home the Thayer Lindsley Award, presented by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada at their conference in Toronto in…



Westcore Drilling's Hector Hewlin plies his trade at North American Nickel's Maniitsoq polymetallic project in southwestern Greenland. Credit: North American Nickel

North American Nickel gears up for work at Maniitsoq

VANCOUVER — North American Nickel (TSX-V: NAN; US-OTC: WSCRF) is making headway advancing its Maniitsoq nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metals property on the coast of southwestern Greenland, 85 km north of the capital Nuuk.



Integra Gold's historic Lamaque gold mill in Val-d'Or, Quebec. Credit: Integra Gold

Integra highlights Lamaque’s exploration upside

VANCOUVER — The recent buzz around junior Integra Gold (TSXV: ICG; US-OTC: ICGQF) has mostly involved its production prospects after a mill-and-plant purchase at its Lamaque gold property in the heart of the Val-d’Or gold camp in…


Facilities at Whitehaven Coal's Narrabri thermal coal mine in New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Whitehaven Coal

Contrarian investor Anglo Pacific picks up coal royalty

Anglo Pacific Group (TSX: APY; LSE: APF) is forking over US$60 million in cash and US$5 million in shares for a royalty on Whitehaven Coal’s (US-OTC: WHITF; ASX: WHC) Narrabri thermal coal mine in Australia at a time when the price of…


Inductee Peter Bradshaw accepts a plaque from Mining Matters president Patricia Dillon. Credit: Canadian Mining Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame welcomes four industry giants

The 27th annual induction ceremony of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame held at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in mid-January featured three eminent and serially successful geologists from Western and Eastern Canada, plus one of the most astute…



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