Midway positions Pan for production
Using the Pan gold project in Nevada as a springboard, Midway Gold’s (MDW-V, MDW-X) president and chief operating officer Kenneth Brunk is intent on transforming the company into a producer.
News
Curis reviving Florence ISL copper project
There isn’t much to see at Curis Resources’ (CUV-V) Florence copper project, consisting mostly of flat empty farmland, but that’s the idea.
Entre Gold starts strong at Ann Mason
Entrée Gold’s (ETG-T, EGI-X) first diamond drill hole at its 100%-owned Ann Mason porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in western Nevada’s Yerington district returned 988 metres of copper mineralization in what Greg Crowe, the…
Canaco Resources explores Ethiopia (February 21, 2011)
Canaco Resources (CAN-V) may be best known for its Magambazi gold discovery in Tanzania’s Handeni district, where last December drill results yielded intercepts of 53.2 metres of 9.51 grams gold per tonne and 17.4 metres of 6.1 grams gold, but…
Condor to start drilling La India
Shares of Condor Resources (CN-L) leapt 30% to close at £6.50 apiece with 8.7 million shares changing hands on news the London-headquartered company was starting to drill its La India concession in Nicaragua.
Ventana likes EBX’s new offer price
A hostile takeover bid turned friendlier on Feb. 13 when Ventana Gold (VEN-T) verbally agreed to a new takeover price of $13.06 in cash per share from EBX Group, up 43¢ from the latter’s initial offer of $12.63 per share last…
Paramount finds more gold in waste dumps
The Sleeper gold mine in Nevada operated as a high-grade open pit from 1986 to 1996, and according to operations reports by its then-owner, Amax Gold, about 54 million tonnes of waste were cast off in dumps over the mine life.
New play on Brazilian potash set to arrive
For investors hungry for a new way to play rising food prices through potash juniors, a new avenue with experienced management should soon be arriving in Toronto.
Alamos provides update on projects in Turkey
Alamos Gold (AGI-T) expects to release a resource estimate in March and a prefeasibility study at the end of the second quarter for its projects in Turkey, Agi Dagi and Kirazli.
Goldcorp on the cusp of announcing details of updated study for lonore
When Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) acquired Éléonore in March 2006 from what is now Virginia Mines (VGQ-T) in a US$425-million deal, the project had no reserve or resource estimate, just a lot of speculation on how big it was going to get…
Fire River Gold completes PEA on Nixon Fork gold mine
Capital costs to resume production at Fire River Gold’s (FAU-V, FVGCF-O) flagship Nixon Fork underground gold mine in Alaska are estimated at US$6.3 million with a projected payback of three months according to a preliminary economic assessment.
Baja finally gets to build Boleo mine (February 17, 2011)
Vancouver – After a false start in 2008, Baja Mining (BAJ-T) now has funding fully secured and is moving ahead with construction of its 70%-owned Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project in Mexico’s Baja State.