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Processing facilities at Golden Star Resources' Wassa gold mine in Ghana. Credit: Golden Star Resources

Golden Star aims to go underground at Wassa

Cash-strapped Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC; NYSE-MKT: GSS) has reported positive feasibility study results on adding an underground mine to its producing Wassa open-pit gold mine in Ghana to bring down costs.


Andrew Swart, a partner at Monitor Deloitte.

Innovation key to solving mining sector woes

Miners are facing a more complex and difficult business environment than ever, with the pressures of rising costs, declining commodity prices, and rising social and investor demands.


Geologists Matthias Lindhuber (left) and Jim Ebisch at an adit on Adamera Minerals' Flag Hill gold project in northern Washington state. Credit: Adamera Minerals

Adamera envisions a golden future in Washington

VANCOUVER — Explorer Adamera Minerals (TSXV: ADZ; US-OTC: DDNFF) is hoping to contribute to a long history of gold mining in the prolific Cook Mountain district in northern Washington state. The region hosts Kinross Gold’s (TSX: K;…



US equities jump, March 16-20

U.S. stocks rose on a declining dollar and higher gold prices at a slower-than-expected pace, which pushed up the main indexes.


Drillers at Ivanhoe Mines' 95%-owned Kamoa copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

China’s Zijin Mining invests in Ivanhoe

Fresh on the heels of its 2015 Thayer Lindsley award win for discovering the Kamoa copper deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has reeled in Zijin Mining as a strategic investor.



The Los Helados valley on the Chile-Argentina border, where NGEx Resources has one of its Los Helados copper-gold project. Source: NGEx Resources

NGEx builds on discovery in Chile-Argentina

VANCOUVER — Junior explorer NGEx Resources (TSX: NGQ; US-OTC: NGQRF) continues to expand mineralization at its Filo Del Sol project in a district it refers to as “Chile’s largest new copper-gold camp.” Bob Carmichael,…



TSX Venture turns positive, March 16-20

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index edged up 1%, or 6 points, en route to a 670.60-point close. Gold, copper and energy futures benefitted from weakness in the U.S. dollar, while Statistics Canada reported that the inflation rate held…


View of the open pit at Almonty Industries' Los Santos tungsten mine 50 km from Salamanca in western Spain. Credit: Almonty Industries

Almonty voices interest in Ormonde

Almonty Industries (TSXV: ALL), a Toronto-headquartered company that describes itself as a specialist in acquiring distressed and underperforming tungsten assets, is turning its sights on Dublin-based Ormonde Mining (LSE: ORM).


From left: Rod Thomas, president of the PDAC; David Palmer, president and CEO of Probe Mines, and winner of the Bill Dennis Award for a Canadian Discovery or Prospecting Success. Credit: ENVISIONDIGITALPHOTO.COM

PDAC celebrates 2015 award recipients

The recent annual convention in Toronto of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada saw a diverse group of mining personnel scoop up this year’s awards.


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