There’s more than meets the eye in NWT and Nunavut
VANCOUVER — Beneath the glacier-scoured lakes and barren tundra of the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) and Nunavut is a collection of disparate Archean- to Proterozoic-aged crust…
Volume 103 Number 7 April 3 – 16, 2017
Snapshot: Six gold juniors developing high-impact projects around the world
With gold prices holding above US$1,200 per oz. and money flowing back into earlier-stage exploration and development projects, gold juniors are poised to make progress…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: Canadian mining by the numbers
The flood of new data in the past month about Canadian mining and mineral exploration shows an industry getting back on its feet after five…
Trevali to buy Glencore’s Rosh Pinah, Perkoa mines
VANCOUVER — Trevali Mining (TSX: TV) is set to become a larger player in the zinc business with a $400-million deal to buy two zinc…
Keith Barron back on the hunt for riches of Ecuador’s Lost Cities
The remarkable story of Aurelian Resources and its discovery of Fruta del Norte — a blind gold deposit the company’s geologists found in the Cordillera…
Callinex grows Flin Flon footprint
Over the last two years, Callinex Mines (TSXV: CNX; US-OTC: CLLXF) has raised $15 million on the back of exploration success at its Pine Bay…
Integra doubles indicated gold resource at Triangle
Integra Gold (TSXV: ICG; US-OTC: ICGQF) has doubled the gold ounces of the Triangle deposit at its 100% owned Lamaque gold project in Val-d’Or, Quebec….
Kakula hit drives up Ivanhoe shares
A new step-out hole has doubled the strike length of the copper-rich mineralized system at the Kakula deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
Commentary: Anti-corruption rules watered down for US miners
On Feb. 14, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a joint resolution of Congress to repeal a critical anti-corruption rule for oil, gas…
AuRico CEO Richter on Kemess permits, royalty strategy
VANCOUVER — AuRico Metals (TSX: AMI; US-OTC: ARCTF) is closing in on regulatory approvals to revive the Kemess copper-gold mine, 250 km north of Smithers in…
Financier Stephen Dattels banks on lithium
Many people in the industry will remember Stephen Dattels as the founder of UraMin, a company he set up in 2005 to develop uranium properties…
Goldcorp takes 19.9% stake in Triumph
VANCOUVER — A new spin on target generation at Triumph Gold’s (TSXV: TIG) Freegold Mountain gold project in south-central Yukon has enticed international miner Goldcorp…