Oyu Tolgoi’s feasibility study delayed
Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ-T, TRQ-N) updated the market with good and bad news about its 66%-held Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia’s South Gobi desert.
Copper
[Update] Inmet boosts copper reserves as First Quantum bid looms
VANCOUVER — As its future hangs in the balance, Canadian base metals producer Inmet Mining (IMN-T) continued to increase its value via a global resource update on Feb. 11, which was highlighted by a 22% jump in proven and probable copper…
Inmet boosts copper reserves as First Quantum bid looms
VANCOUVER — As its future hangs in the balance, Canadian base metals producer Inmet Mining (IMN-T) continued to increase its value via a global resource update on Feb. 11, which was highlighted by a 22% jump in proven and probable copper…
Oyu Tolgoi’s feasibility study gets delayed
Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ-T, TRQ-N) updated the market on its 66%-held Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia’s South Gobi desert with a mix of potentially good and bad news.
Barrick takes US$3.8B hit on Lumwana copper mine
VANCOUVER – Copper isn’t turning out to be the growth avenue Barrick Gold (ABX-X) hoped it would be.
Florence prefeasibility lifts Curis to 52-week high
VANCOUVER – Curis Resources (CUV-T) managed to buck two of the mining sector’s most persistent problems – creeping capital costs and rising operating expenses – with a prefeasibility study for its Florence copper project in…
Back Forty gains grade but work still suspended
VANCOUVER — A new resource estimate for the Back Forty poly-metallic project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has boosted the deposit’s metal grades. But despite the improvement, no work is underway at the site because project…
McEwen grows Los Azules copper count
VANCOUVER — With 10 drill holes, McEwen Mining (MUX-T, MUX-N) has boosted the copper resource at its Los Azules project in Argentina by 20% compared to the last estimate just eight months ago, and the huge deposit remains open in every…
Constantine finds perfect partner for Palmer
VANCOUVER — For the last few years, the Palmer project in Alaska almost had it all: a high-grade polymetallic deposit with thick, continuous zones that could be mined using short lateral drifts to deposit ore beside a highway running to a…
Taking a closer look at Taseko’s options
Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) could become a consolidator in British Columbia and also prey to companies like Lundin Mining (LUN-T), Capstone Mining (CS-T) or Teck Resources (TCK.B-T), Chris Chang of Laurentian Bank Securities says.
Yukon exploration slow but steady in 2012
VANCOUVER — Depressed equity markets, a cool spring that kept snow on the ground and floods in June that washed out major roads meant 2012 was much quieter in the Yukon than it was in 2011.
Gold, copper remain Alaska’s best undeveloped assets
VANCOUVER — Alaska did not see new mines commissioned or built in 2012, but an overview of the state’s year in mining and exploration from Avalon Development president Curt Freeman at Roundup 2013 in Vancouver showed that mining and…