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Exploration director Sonny Bernales in front of an outcropping gold-silver-copper skarn at the El Dorado target, part of Source Exploration's Las Minas project in Mexico. Credit: Source Exploration

Source chases district-scale skarn at Las Minas

VANCOUVER — Roughly 270 km east of Mexico City in the state of Veracruz, junior Source Exploration (TSXV: SOP) is thinking big. Earlier this year the company expanded a discovery at its property package in the historic Las Minas…


The 250-person camp at the Fruta del Norte gold project in Ecuador, which Fortress Minerals is buying for US$240 million. Credit: Fortress Minerals

Lundin’s Fortress to buy Fruta del Norte

Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) acquired the Fruta del Norte gold project in Ecuador through its US$1.2-billion acquisition of Aurelian Resources in 2008, but heated local opposition forced the gold producer to abandon the project in 2013…


NGEx Resources' Los Helados copper-gold-silver project in Chile.  Credit: NGEx Resources

NGEx’s Los Helados PEA comes with hefty capex

VANCOUVER — There’s a lot of low-grade copper at NGEx Resources’ (TSX: NGQ; US-OTC: NGQRF) Los Helados project, situated 77 km northwest of Copiapo, Chile. But a newly released preliminary economic assessment (PEA) calls into…


Lion One Metals geological staff in front of the entrance to underground workings at the Tuvatu gold project in Fiji. Credit: Lion One Metals

Lion One moves permitting forward in Fiji

Fiji’s Department of Environment has approved two key permits for Lion One Metals’ (TSXV: LIO) high-grade Tuvatu gold project, 50 km south of Vatukoula, the country’s oldest operating mine.


Trucks on a wet day at Alamos Gold's Mulatos gold mine in Sonora, Mexico. Credit: Alamos Gold

Alamos Gold hit by heavy rains during Q3

VANCOUVER — It’s the rainy season in Mexico, and that’s not great news for producer Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) at its wholly owned Mulatos heap-leach mine, 220 km east of Hermosillo in Sonora state. On Oct. 23 the…


Orocobre's flagship Salar de Olaroz brine-based lithium project in the Puna region of Argentina's northwestern province of Juyuy. Credit: Orocobre

Orocobre defines new exploration target

Orocobre (TSX: ORL; US-OTC: OROCF) says its flagship Salar de Olaroz brine-based lithium project in the Puna region of Argentina’s northwestern province of Juyuy is expected to produce 17,500 tonnes per year of low-cost, battery-grade…


The mill at Detour Gold's Detour Lake gold mine in Ontario. Photo by Trish Saywell.

OMA study: New mines a boost to Ontario economy

A new study by the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management commissioned by the Ontario Mining Association measures the impact on gross domestic product, employment and government revenue from open pit and underground mining…



Enjoying zero gravity aboard a customized Boeing 727 in 2010, from left: McEwen Mining chairman Rob McEwen; filmmaker James Cameron; X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis; high-tech billionaire Elon Musk; and Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos. Credit: McEwen Mining

Rob McEwen defies gravity

Commercial flights to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo are supposed to start in March 2015, after the company’s billionaire founder Richard Branson and his son Sam make the trip first.


From left to right: Peter M.D. Bradshaw, Ronald K. Netolitzky, Ian Telfer and Mackenzie Iles Watson.

Canadian Mining Hall of Fame to fete mining leaders

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame will honour four industry greats at its annual induction dinner on Jan. 15, 2015, in Toronto. This year’s inductees are Peter M.D. Bradshaw, Ronald K. Netolitzky, Ian Telfer and Mackenzie Iles Watson. The…



Trenching at Puma Exploration's Brunswick North gold-silver-lead-zinc project in New Brunswick. Credit: Puma Exploration

Puma on the prowl near historic Brunswick mine

Shares of Puma Exploration (TSXV: PUM; US-OTC: PUXPF) traded higher after the junior announced it  has acquired a 6.5 sq. km property with a newly discovered volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) zone just 6 km north of the No. 12 orebody at…


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