Thompson Creek piles up cash in Q3
Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.
Copper
Foran’s positive PEA at McIlvenna Bay
Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) has touched a milestone at its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in east-central Saskatchewan, with the completion of a promising preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanogenic massive…
Osisko Gold Royalties comes out strong
VANCOUVER — Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; US-OTC: OKSKF) is one to watch in the realm of corporate finance. The company is a spin-out from Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) and Yamana Gold’s (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY)…
Antofagasta to buy Duluth Metals
VANCOUVER — Chilean copper miner Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO; US-OTC: ANFGY) and Toronto-based explorer Duluth Metals (TSX: DM; US-OTC: DULMF) are joint-venture partners in the Twin Metals Minnesota…
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…
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…
Gold Reserve wins US$740M in ‘stunning victory’ against Venezuela
It’s taken six years and over US$20 million in legal costs, but Gold Reserve (TSX: GRZ; US-OTC: GDRZF) has won US$740.3 million in compensation for the expropriation of its Brisas gold project by the Venezuelan government. It’s one…
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…
ICSG forecasts copper surplus in 2015
After five years in a row of deficits, the copper market should show a production surplus in 2015, according to The International Copper Study Group.
Lonmin doubles down on Wallbridge JVs in Sudbury
VANCOUVER — U.K.-based platinum group metals (PGM) outfit Lonmin (LSE: LMI; US-OTC: LNMIY) remains bullish on the Sudbury basin and its expansive joint venture with junior Wallbridge Mining (TSX: WM; US-OTC: WLBMF). On Sept. 20…
Ivanhoe says most locals support Platreef
Should Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) cranks out its estimated 785,000 oz. platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold from the Platreef project in South Africa, the underground operation 280 km northeast of Johannesburg would be…
Chilean court suspends El Morro project, again
Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) and New Gold (TSX: NGD; NYSE-MKT: NGD) are having an unlucky streak at their El Morro gold-copper project in northern Chile, where local officials have temporarily suspended development for the third time in three…