Troilus drills ‘land that time forgot’ in central Quebec
Between listing on the TSX Venture Exchange in January 2018 and graduating to the Toronto Stock Exchange in October the same year, Troilus Gold (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) drilled 36,000…
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The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 134: Iron ore markets post-Vale disaster, Ukraine update ft Black Iron’s Matt Simpson
Global iron ore markets are under great stress in the wake of Vale’s horrific tailings-dam disaster near Brumadinho in Brazil, which has resulted in 10% of the world’s iron ore…
Continental tables resource for Buritica’s BMZ1 in Colombia
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has announced a discrete resource estimate for the Broad Mineralized Zone 1 (BMZ1) in the central-west portion of the Yaragua system at its Buritica…
Scrapbook: YMP Awards gala
The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) — a non-profit group with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Sudbury, Perth, Brisbane, Johannesburg and London — held its third annual YMP Awards gala in…
Kinross takes 9.7% stake in Wolfden
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) has acquired 12.5 million shares of Wolfden Resources (TSXV: WLF) at 20¢ each for $2.5 million, resulting in a 9.7% stake in the junior…
Sandspring rethinks Toroparu in Guyana
Sandspring Resources (TSXV: SSP; US-OTC: SSPXF) is putting the finishing touches on a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Toroparu gold project in Guyana that rescopes the project’s prefeasibility study…
Equinox upgrades resources at Aurizona and Mesquite
Equinox Gold (TSXV: EQX; US-OTC: EQXFF) has boosted resources at its Aurizona gold mine in northeastern California and reserves and resources at its Mesquite gold mine in California. Since the…
Monarch Gold targets multiple projects
Since the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference wrapped up in early March, Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) has fielded calls from three mining companies about possible…
BMO cuts Vale production estimates after additional mine closure
BMO Capital Markets has cut Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) iron ore production estimate this year by a further 30 million tonnes due to the continued suspension of the miner’s Brucutu mine,…
Toachi advances La Plata project in Ecuador
Toachi Mining (TSXV: TIM) is trenching its Guatuza gold-copper target at its La Plata volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project in Ecuador. It plans to drill Guatuza in the second half…
Apex confirms gold anomaly at Ore Hill in BC
Apex Resources (TSXV: APX; US-OTC) has confirmed a 1.5 km by 150-metre gold in soil anomaly at its Ore Hill gold property near Salmo, B.C., after compiling historic and modern…
Ontario Minister Rickford pledges to cut red tape, slams C-69
The Ontario government has put together a new mining taskforce to help it overhaul the Mining Act. Whereas the previous Liberal government also passed legislation to modernize the Mining Act,…