Video: Hecla Mining targets productivity growth
Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL), the largest silver producer in the United States, wants to improve productivity after a fire and safety breaches last year. The company is rebounding from a mile-deep…
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Video: Fireweed Metals prepares Macmillan Pass resource update
Fireweed Metals (TSXV: FWZ; US-OTC: FWEDF) is planning a resource update by June on its Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in the Yukon, chief geologist Jack Milton says. The company, backed the Lundin family and Teck…
Precious metals snapshot: Eight companies in pursuit of gold and silver
Gold and silver have played an important economic and social role in human civilization for thousands of years. Coveted for their rarity and high value, gold and silver are also…
Mexico’s president proposes ban on open pit mining, says it ‘transgresses human rights’
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, has proposed a series of constitutional reforms, including a ban on open-pit mining. Speaking before parliament, López Obrador argued that open-pit…
Dolly Varden Silver discovers new, high-grade gold zone at Homestake Ridge
Dolly Varden Silver (TSXV: DV; USOTC: DOLLF) has discovered a new, gold-rich zone to the northwest of its Homestake Silver deposit, part of its Kitsault Valley project in British Columbia….
Video: Mazumdar highlights sector’s challenges; need for sentiment shift
Of the many challenges facing the mining sector right now, the biggest one is investor sentiment, says Joe Mazumdar, mining analyst, editor and writer of the Exploration Insights Newsletter. Mazumdar,…
Update gives Seabridge’s KSM project another 5.9M inferred oz gold
A resource update for Seabridge Gold‘s (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) Kerr and Iron Cap deposits at its KSM gold-copper project in northwestern British Columbia has added significant amounts to its…
Gabriel Resources says share surge not tied to Romania mine arbitration
Gabriel Resources (TSXV: GBU) said on Friday that the recent surge in its share price is unrelated to the outcome of its upcoming arbitration process with the International Centre for…
BC’s Nisga’a plan to launch public royalty co
The Nisga’a Nation in northwest B.C. is forming Canada’s largest Indigenous-majority owned public royalty company, demonstrating the increasing power of First Nations in resource development. A new agreement announced Thursday…
Top producers push for silver’s inclusion as a critical mineral in Canada and US
CEOs of 19 mining companies suggest a misconception about availability is why silver is not on Canada’s critical mineral list.
Barrick to spend US$136M on closure of failed Pascua-Lama project
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) plans to spend US$136 million to definitively close its failed Pascua-Lama gold-silver project, straddling the border with Argentina. Its subsidiary, Compañía Minera Nevada, has submitted…
Hecla Mining to speed up growth by expanding into Latin America
Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL), the largest silver producer in the United States, is looking to expand into Mexico, Peru and two other countries in Latin America to speed up growth…