Sun Metals advances Stardust
Sun Metals (TSXV: SUNM) has completed the final tranche of a $6.2-million bought-deal financing that will help it advance exploration at its wholly owned Stardust…
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Tinka cuts high-grade zinc at Ayawilca in Peru
Vancouver-based Tinka Resources (TSXV: TK; US-OTC: TKRFF) has intersected several zones of high-grade zinc mineralization in the final hole of this year’s drill program at…
BHP boosts investment in SolGold
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is spending US$22 million to boost its stake in SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LON: SOLG) to 14.7% from 11.1%, making it one…
TSX Venture falls, Nov. 11-15: Great Bear, Aurania, Callinex, Osino
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 1.56% to 528.58. Spot gold finished at US$1,467.90 per oz., up 0.62%. Shares of Great Bear Resources jumped 70¢,…
US markets move higher, Oct. 28-Nov 1: Buenaventura, Rio Tinto, Southern Copper
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.44% to 27,347.36 and the S&P 500 Index increased 1.47% to 3,066.91. Spot gold gained 0.67% to US$1514.10 per…
Court rejects Hudbay motion to reconsider Rosemont
The U.S. District Court for Arizona has turned down Hudbay Minerals’ (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) request that it reconsider its ruling in July that prevents…
Chile in turmoil as tensions boil over
The worst unrest in Chile in a generation threatens to overturn assumptions about one of South America’s most stable countries and the world’s leading copper…
Foran advances McIlvenna Bay in Saskatchewan
Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) is on track to complete a feasibility study before year-end on its flagship McIlvenna Bay volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in…
Commentary: Mining’s unlikely heroines — Greta Thunberg and AOC
Left-wing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill…
SolGold discovers porphyry system in Ecuador
SolGold has discovered a new copper-gold-silver-molybdenum porphyry system at its wholly owned Cisne Loja project in southern Ecuador. The company says it found mineralized outcrops…
US markets mixed, Oct. 14-18: Agnico Eagle, AngloGold Ashanti, Newmont Goldcorp
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.17% to 26,770.20, while the S&P 500 Index rose 0.54% to 2,986.20. Gold stayed relatively flat at US$1,489.60 per…
Highland Copper tables PEA for White Pine North
A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of Highland Copper’s (TSXV: HI; US-OTC: HDRSF) White Pine North copper project in Michigan envisions a 25-year mine producing an average…