Rio Alto Mining (rio-v) is raising $50 million in a private placement to fund its La Arena copper-gold project 480 km northwest of Lima in Peru.A syndicate of underwriters led by GMP Securities and including Scotia Capital, Clarus Securities…
Nevsun Resources (nsu-t, nsu-x) has poured its first gold on time and under budget at Bisha, Eritrea’s first modern-day mine, the company reported on Jan. 4.Ramp up to full commercial production will take place over the course of the first…
Blue Note Mining (bnt-v) has until the end of March to tie up its acquisition of First Gold Exploration’s (efg-v) stake in the Croinor gold project and the Matchi-Manitou property in Quebec. The deal was originally announced last July with the…
After 12 years of profitable operation, Northgate Minerals’ (ngx-t, nxg-x) Kemess South gold-copper mine in north-central British Columbia is shutting down.The large-scale open-pit mine will cease operating in February after ore reserves have…
Marc Johnson, a mining analyst and chartered financial accountant at M Partners in Toronto, initiated coverage of Spanish Mountain Gold (spa-v) in the middle of December 2010, less than a month after the junior released a preliminary economic…
If you ask Marc Blythe, president and chief executive of Tarsis Resources (tcc-v), there aren’t many companies like his that are looking for new projects in the Yukon. “There are probably only one or two publicly listed companies looking for…
Investors snapped to attention when drilling at the Tiger zone in the middle of Atac Resources’ (atc-v) Rau gold property in the Yukon started yielding intercepts of 38.8 metres of 17.1 grams gold per tonne from 33 metres depth, 32.6 metres…
With more than $21 million in cash, Kaminak Gold (kam-v) has the funds for an extensive exploration program this year at its Coffee gold project in the White Gold district of the Yukon.The first phase of its drill program, budgeted at $15…
Taseko Mines (tko-t, tgb-x) may have been knocked down by the Canadian government’s ruling against its proposed Prosperity gold-copper mine in B.C., but that doesn’t mean the company has been knocked out.The government turned down the project…
Vancouver – A human rights ruling in the Philippines seems to have raised doubts as to the future of OceanaGold’s (OGC-T) Didipio project, while the Australian miner is assuring investors the project is a go.
After much delay the citizens of the Central African Republic (CAR) are set to head to the polls on Sunday, but the implications for miners in the region are still unclear. Francois Bozize, the current president, is favored to win. Even if he…
The overall resource at Gold-Ore Resources’ (GOZ-T) Bjorkdal gold mine in Sweden has grown by over 50% from the last estimate reported in March 2010. Measured and indicated resources for the combined open pit and underground operation totals…
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