Premier pours first gold at El Nino mine in Nevada
Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) has poured first gold at its El Nino underground mine in Nevada. The El Nino mine is part of the South Arturo mine project, which…
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Semafo releases ‘attractive’ PEA for Nabanga in Burkina Faso
A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Semafo’s (TSX:SMF) Nabanga gold project in Burkina Faso envisions an open-pit and underground mining operation that can be developed with modest initial capital. The Nabanga gold…
Copler Saddle zone shows mine potential, Alacer says
Alacer Gold’s (TSX: ASR) Copler Saddle shear zone sits on the western periphery of the company’s Copler open-pit mine in eastern Turkey, 1,100 km southeast of Istanbul and 550 km…
Wesdome hits high grades at Kiena in Quebec
Drill results from Wesdome Gold Mines’ (TSX: WDO) Kiena complex in Quebec have confirmed high-grade gold mineralization in the Kiena Deep A zone. The 65 sq. km Kiena complex, 10…
Wesdome hikes resource estimate for Kiena mine in Quebec
Wesdome Gold Mine (TSX: WDO) has released an updated resource for its 100%-owned Kiena complex in Val-d’Or, Quebec. The latest resource estimate, which points to an increase in gold grade and…
Falco deal with Glencore key to Horne 5 development
Falco Resources’ (TSXV: FPC) Horne 5 project contains 7 million oz. gold. It might contain just as many questions. Perhaps the biggest one is whether or not Falco will secure…
Osisko launches incubator, bids for Barkerville
Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) has created a project development platform called North Spirit Discovery Group, and it hopes the resource development and finance company’s first asset will…
Probe Metals hikes resource estimate
Probe Metals (TSXV: PRB; US-OTC: PROBF) has released an updated resource estimate for its Val-d’Or East project in Quebec, 25 km east of Val-d’Or and 1.5 km west of the…
Monarch drills visible gold at Fayolle project in Quebec
The latest resource estimate for Monarch Gold’s (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) newly acquired Fayolle gold project in Quebec confirms the deposit’s high-grade, near-surface potential. Fayolle’s indicated resource now stands at…
Quebec Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
Mining companies spend an average of $8.5 billion a year in Quebec, and the industry generates $962 million annually for the provincial government, excluding corporate income taxes, according to the…
Bell Copper chases payoff from Perseverance
Tim Marsh likes to say that it took 150 drill holes to hit the high-grade core of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold porphyry deposit that made the Mongolian discovery economic….
Victoria Gold pours first gold at Eagle mine
Victoria Gold (TSXV: VIT) has started producing gold at its Eagle mine in the Yukon. Annual gold production is estimated at 200,000 oz. at an average all-in sustaining costs (AISCs)…