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Detour Gold general manager of operations Chuck Hennessey (left) with president and CEO Paul Martin in the processing plant at the Detour Lake gold mine in Ontario. Photo by Trish Saywell.

Steady hands whip Detour Lake into shape

COCHRANE, ONTARIO — When you look at the careers of Detour Gold’s (TSX: DGC) chief operating officer Pierre Beaudoin and president and CEO Paul Martin, it’s almost as if both men had been groomed for their task of bringing the…


TSX hits record high, June 16-20

Canada’s benchmark index gained for the third straight week. The S&P/TSX Composite Index climbed 107.36 points to finish the week at 15,108.97, before reaching an all-time closing high of 15,112.22 points a day earlier.


June proves to be a golden month

The remarkable move upwards of gold prices in mid-June has gold investors catching their collective breath and walking with a little more spring in their step, as June draws to an end and gold prices firm up well north of US$1,300 per oz.


Rubicon Minerals' Phoenix gold project in northwestern Ontario. Credit: Rubicon Minerals

Rubicon keeps Phoenix on course

Thanks to two financing deals that came through early this year, developer Rubicon Minerals (TSX: RMX; NYSE-MKT: RBY) now says  mine construction is half complete at its Phoenix gold project in Ontario’s Red Lake camp, and the…


A drill crew at the Cangrejos gold-copper porphyry project in Ecuador's El Oro province at the foot of the Ecuadorian Andes. Credit: Odin Mining.

Ross Beaty to invest in Odin Mining

Fresh on the heels of the $470 million sale of Lumina Copper (TSXV: LCC) and its Taca Taca project in Argentina to First Quantum Metals (TSX: FM; LSE: FM) earlier this month, Lumina’s founder and largest shareholder, Ross Beaty, is making…


A drilling crew at Papillon Resources' Fekola gold project in Mali. Credit: Papillon Resources

B2Gold to acquire Papillon Resources

Over the last six years, B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-MKT: BTG) has looked at scores of properties that it considered adding to its portfolio of assets, which includes two mines in Nicaragua, one mine in the Philippines, another under construction in…




The view from Kinsley Mountain showing Long Canyon 90 km away. Credit: Pilot Gold

Pilot hits oxide gold at Kinsley, pursues Cadillac

VANCOUVER — With just a few holes Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG; US-OTC: PLGTF) has defined another gold zone at its Kinsley Mountain gold project in Nevada, just a kilometre away from the high-grade Western Flank zone it discovered less than a…


Pilot Gold geologist April Barrios examines a zone of phyllic alteration and quartz veining cross-cutting potassic-altered granodiorite in the central part of the Valley porphyry soil anomaly, at the TV Tower project in Turkey. Credit: Pilot Gold

Another Turkish porphyry for Pilot and Teck

VANCOUVER — With its first hole into a new target, Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG; US-OTC: PLGTF) has found a copper–gold porphyry at its TV Tower project in Turkey, reinforcing the district-scale potential of the large land package.


TSX soars, June 9-13

The Toronto Stock Exchange climbed near the record high it reached six years ago, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index adding 163 points to end at 15,001.61, slightly below the record close of 15,073 set in June 2008 before the recession.


Banro's Twangiza mine, located in South Kivu province, began commercial production in September 2012 and is expected to produce 100,000 oz. gold this year. Credit: Banro

Banro faces proxy battle

Just as it’s about to bring a second gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into commercial production, Banro (TSX: BAA; NYSE-MKT: BAA) is facing a proxy battle from a dissident shareholder that claims the company is…


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