Fewer mining dollars spent and earned in BC
VANCOUVER — In its forty-sixth annual mining industry survey, PwC’s Digging Deep: The Mining Industry in British Columbia 2013 reflects a difficult year for the sector across all commodities.
Volume 100 Number 16 Jun 2 - 8, 2014
RTG Mining has big plans in the Philippines
The former management team of CGA Mining, which redeveloped and opened the Masbate gold mine in the Philippines and then merged last year with B2 Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-MKT: BTG) in a deal worth US$1.1 billion, is hoping to repeat some of that…
Arianne Phosphate grows Lac Paul
Arianne Phosphate (TSXV: DAN; US-OTC: DRRSF) says one of the world’s largest greenfield phosphate-rock projects has just gotten bigger, with near-surface inferred resources added from the Lac à Paul deposit’s Nicole zone in…
Barrick’s Arturo project gets go ahead from BLM
It took nearly five years, but the Bureau of Land Management has issued a positive record of decision (ROD) on the final environmental impact statement (EIS) allowing Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) to restart and expand a past-producing…
Resource grows at Continental’s Buritic in Colombia
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has updated the resource estimate for the two major vein systems at its Buritica gold project in Colombia. Both systems are characterized by multiple, steeply dipping veins and broader, more…
Balmoral shares surge on Bug Lake results
Shares of Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) surged 21% to $1.04, with 4.6 million shares trading hands after the junior reported an intercept of 1,138 grams gold per tonne over 4.9 metres, including 9,710 grams gold over 0.57 metre…