Primero up 36% on positive tax ruling
Primero Mining (P-T, PPP-N) soared 36% after the gold-silver producer with operations in Mexico received a favourable tax ruling from Mexican authorities on its Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA).
Silver
Early juniors get low-hanging fruit in Jalisco
It’s not every day that primary silver deposits are found at the side of a road.
SilverCrest increases bought deal financing
Precious metals producer SilverCrest Mines (SVL-V, SVLC-N, SVLC-X) has expanded its bought financing to $30 million from $26 million and will use the proceeds to both eliminate the remainder of its gold hedge book and beef up…
MAG Silver completes initial resource at Cinco de Mayo
The Cinco de Mayo project in Mexico contains inferred resources of 12.45 million tonnes grading 132 grams silver per tonne, 0.24 gram gold per tonne, 2.86% lead and 6.47% zinc, MAG Silver (MAG-T, MVG-N, MAG-X) reported in a maiden resource…
Tahoe, Radius on working in Guatemala
VANCOUVER — When listing stable mining jurisdictions Guatemala would have a hard time making the grade. The small Central American country emerged from civil war in 1996, and remains in its infancy as far as development and regulatory…
Updated resource pushes Continental Gold higher
Shares of Continental Gold (CNL-T) surged $1.09 or 12% to $9.90 apiece with more than six million shares changing hands on news of an updated resource estimate for the company’s Buriticá project in Antioquia, Colombia.
Unfinished business at Prairie Creek, part II
When and if the final water licence and road permits are issued, Canadian Zinc (CZN-T) will at last be in a position to get its Prairie Creek zinc-lead-silver project here in the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories into…
Sulliden outlines a smaller project in Peru
While a feasibility study for Sulliden Gold’s (SUE-T) Shahuindo project in northern Peru envisions a somewhat smaller and slightly more expensive gold operation than previously thought, the project’s economics are still…
Unfinished business at Prairie Creek
The paint dried over 30 years ago, but a “wet paint” sign still hangs on the metal railing that was erected to stop the uninitiated from falling into the crushing circuit below.
McEwen plots out El Gallo’s next growth stage
A feasibility study for phase two of McEwen Mining’s (MUX-T, MUX-N) expanding El Gallo mine supports production of an additional 5 million oz. silver a year for seven years from the company’s mining complex in Sinaloa, Mexico….
Blackwater PEA drives New Gold higher
A preliminary economic assessment of New Gold’s (NGD-T) Blackwater gold project in central British Columbia 112 km southwest of Vanderhoof suggests the project should generate robust economic returns even at a gold price that is…
Silver Wheaton’s Smallwood paddles world’s silver streams
Silver Wheaton (SLW-T, SLW-N) has come a long way in a short time. Formed in 2004 out of Wheaton River Mineral’s silver assets, the company is now the biggest silver-streaming company in the world.