McFarlane Lake drills long gold intercepts as MRE nears
New drilling by McFarlane Lake Mining (CSE: MLM; US-OTC: MLMLF) at its main Juby gold project in northeastern Ontario has continued to expand the scale of the property’s gold system…
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Equinox-Orla get OK to create No. 2 Canada gold miner
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) (NYSE: EQX) and Orla Mining (TSX: OLA) (NYSE: ORLA) have secured shareholder approval for their $18.5 billion merger, creating Canada’s second-largest gold producer with expected annual…
AbraSilver raises $45M for Diablillos in Argentina
AbraSilver Resource (TSX: ABRA; US-OTC: ABBRF) is raising $45 million (US$32 million) through a bought-deal share offering to fund early works at its Diablillos silver-gold project in Argentina as it…
Rule Symposium Video: Hodge sounds alarm on junior ‘lifestyle’ stocks
Investors should seek companies whose managers own meaningful stakes and have committed backers able to fund more than one drill program, Digest Publishing co-founder and mining guru Nick Hodge said….
Novagold creates $4.2B US gold giant with Donlin deal
Novagold Resources (NYSE-A, TSX: NG) will acquire the Donlin Gold stake in Alaska it does not already own from Paulson Advisors in an all-stock transaction that creates a gold miner…
Coeur doubles Mexico exploration budget to $158M
Coeur Mining (TSX, NYSE: CDE) plans to spend twice as much this year drilling in Mexico after reporting high-grade assays from its Palmarejo operation in Chihuahua state. The stock rose….
Gold, silver prices rebound as US-Iran war spreads
Gold and silver jumped on Wednesday as a sharp escalation in the United States war on Iran sent oil surging and investors scrambling back into havens, with buyers willing to…
Rule Symposium Video: First Majestic turns silver surge into mine growth
First Majestic Silver (TSX: AG; NYSE: AG) is reinvesting record cash flow from higher silver prices in its Mexican mines, led by Los Gatos. The Vancouver-based miner generated $224 million…
Rule Symposium Video: Dundee bets Shovelnose can narrow share discount
Mining investment firm Dundee (TSX: DC.A) is taking a larger-than-usual role in a project through an $85-million (US$60 million) earn-in on Westhaven Gold’s (TSXV: WHN; US-OTC: WTHVF) Shovelnose in British…
Ali producer Lee Caplin joins NovaRed after Noem
NovaRed Mining (CSE: NRED; US-OTC: NREDF) has appointed to its advisory board Lee Evan Caplin, the executive producer of the Oscar-nominated movie Ali and an entrepreneur behind Rolling Stone owner…
Getchell Gold sees $905M value for Fondaway Canyon
Getchell Gold (CSE: GTCH; US-OTC: GGLDF) says a revised preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its proposed Fondaway Canyon open-pit gold mine in Nevada has boosted the project’s value by 67%…
Lundin keeps forecast despite Chile winter storm shutting Caserones
Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) said a severe winter storm in northern Chile has temporarily shut its Caserones copper-molybdenum mine and disrupted operations at the Candelaria complex, but the company expects…