Blue Gold secures $140M to restart Ghana gold mine
Shares of Blue Gold (Nasdaq: BGL) jumped as much as 9.6% Wednesday after the junior miner announced it had secured an additional $65 million in…
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Freegold drills strong wide intercepts in Alaska
Freegold Ventures (TSX: FVL; US-OTC: FGOVF) has reported further drilling success from its Golden Summit project in Alaska where it’s defining a starter pit in…
Aya values Boumadine in Morocco at $3B with spot gold
Canada’s Aya Gold & Silver (TSX: AYA; US-OTC: AYASF) said a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Boumadine polymetallic project in Morocco shows the company…
Coeur Mining buys New Gold for $7B
Coeur Mining (NYSE: CDE) is acquiring Canada’s New Gold (TSX: NGD) in an all-stock deal valued at about $7 billion, creating a new North American…
Freeport expands BC’s AuRORA with near-surface grades
Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) has extended the AuRORA copper-gold-silver discovery made by partner Amarc Resources (TSXV: AHR; OTCQB: AXREF) in British Columbia. A batch of long,…
Gold Fields pays $50M for 12% of Founders Metals
Gold Fields (NYSE, JSE: GFI) agreed to pay about $50 million (US$36 million) to become the biggest shareholder in Founders Metals (TSXV: FDR; US-OTC: FDMIF),…
Kodal Minerals keeps Mali lithium mine running as Islamic militants advance
West Africa-focused Kodal Minerals (LSE: KOD) says operations at its Bougouni lithium mine in southern Mali remain unaffected despite escalating security tensions near the capital,…
Fresnillo enters Canada with $780M Probe Gold buy
Mexican precious metals miner Fresnillo (LSE: FRES) is acquiring Canada’s Probe Gold (TSX: PRB) for $780 million (US$556 million) in cash, marking the company’s first…
Site visit: Revival Gold shows ‘exploration sizzle’ in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho – An underground discovery hunt in central Idaho could shuffle Revival Gold’s (TSXV: RVG; US-OTC: RVLGF) development queue, CEO Hugh Agro said this…
Fortuna boosts underground potential in Côte d’Ivoire
Exploration drilling at Fortuna Mining’s (TSX: FVI; NYSE: FSM) Séguéla open-pit mine in Côte d’Ivoire improves the odds of an underground operation at the Sunbird deposit,…
Idaho bets on schools, speedy approvals to renew mining
BOISE, Idaho – Access to local skilled labour is now the choke point to building new mines, Idaho’s mining leaders told the Idaho Mining Conference…
JV Q&A: Emperor Metals eyes next Quebec step with AI
Emperor Metals’ (CSE: AUOZ; US-OTC: EMAUF) is carving out its place in Quebec’s Southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt – one of the world’s richest gold regions…