Quartermain’s Pretium is off to a good start
After 25 years at the helm of Silver Standard Resources (SSO-T, SSRI-Q), Robert Quartermain is back in action with a start-up company called Pretium Resources (PVG-T).
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Medusa Mining delivers on promise (March 11, 2011)
Record gold production at low cash costs averaging US$186 per oz. contributed to a record net profit after-tax of US$58.1 million in the six months ended Dec. 31, 2010, Medusa Mining (MLL-T, MML-L, MML-A) reports.
Ivanhoe, Altynalmas boost resource at Bakyrchik
A 50% increase of indicated resources at the Bakyrchik gold deposit “bodes well” for the definitive feasibility study that is due by June, Altynalmas Gold and Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q) say.
American Vanadium targets 2012 for Gibellini production (March 10, 2011)
A little ways off a quiet highway in eastern Nevada, freshly re-branded American Vanadium (AVC-V) is working to bring a vanadium heap-leach operation to life.
Augyva eyes iron in Quebec’s James Bay region
Iron ore mining and exploration in Quebec is focused in the northeast, but Georges-Yvan Gagnon, CEO of Augyva Mining Resources (AUV-V), is convinced there is great potential farther west in the province, specifically at the Duncan Lake project…
Trouble in a mineralogical paradise
In late December 2010 a spokesman for the National Democratic Front (NDF), a confederation that encompasses many of the Philippines’ leftist groups – including the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its New People’s Army (NPA)…
EMED reviving Rio Tinto in Spain
In six years, Cyprus-based EMED Mining (EMD-T, EMED-L) has grown from being little more than a concept to a company with very real plans to restart copper production this year from the historic Rio Tinto open-pit copper mine in southwestern…
Strateco forges ahead at Matoush amid uncertainty
Three years, millions of dollars, and thousands of pages of impact studies later, there is still no guarantee that Strateco Resources (RSC-T) will be allowed to explore underground on its Matoush uranium project in northern Quebec’s Otish…
Chile a copper cornucopia
Chile is already the world’s largest producer of copper and home to around a third of global reserves of the red metal. That has led some to suggest that the country’s exploration potential may have peaked. But that’s not what the latest…
Richmont tallies Wasamac resource
Since joining the ranks of gold producers in 1991, Richmont Mines (RIC-T, RIC-X) has produced more than 1.2 million oz. gold from its operations in Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland, and by mid-year the company expects to add production from its…
Batero rises on long intercepts
Batero Gold (BAT-V) released the best drill results yet from its Batero-Quinchia gold project in Colombia and the news took the company’s shares for a wild ride.
Unusual and exotic deposit types compete for attention at Roundup
With 56% of juniors listed on the TSX Venture Exchange focused on precious metals, it’s no surprise that gold and copper-gold projects dominated Mineral Exploration Roundup held here in late January. But some unconventional projects were…