Taseko maintains production through pandemic
While gold miners have been stealing the pandemic limelight as that precious metal’s price has soared, copper miners have struggled with the collapse of their main markets, like China, and…
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India-based diamond processing hub re-opens at lower volumes
After being closed for almost two months due to the coronavirus pandemic, the diamond manufacturing hub of Surat, India, where most of the world’s rough diamonds are cut and polished,…
Maple Gold Mines connects gold zones at Douay
Maple Gold Mines (TSXV: MGM; US-OTC: MGMLF) has released the results of hole 20-281 completed within the conceptual pit shell at the Porphyry zone at the company’s 355-sq.-km Douay project…
Vale raises emergency alert level at inactive tailings dams
Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE: VALE) has issued a level one emergency alert for three inactive tailings dams in the country’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais. The miner, the world’s…
Eclipse hits oxide gold at Hercules in Nevada
The first phase of drilling at Eclipse Gold Mining’s (TSXV: EGLD; US-OTC: EGLPF) Hercules gold project within the Walker Lane trend, 40 km southeast of Reno in Nevada, has returned…
Star Diamond and Rio Tinto clash over project ownership
In spite of a legal dispute between partners Star Diamond (TSX: DIAM) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) at the Star-Orion South diamond project in north-central Saskatchewan, the project…
EHR Resources launches diamond ‘incubator’
With a new strategy focused on diamonds that officially launched in March, just as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread across the globe, you might think that EHR Resources (ASX:…
David Garofalo-led fund takes stake in Radisson
The Marshall Precious Metals Fund, managed and led by chairman and CEO David Garofalo, with funds from Chinese state-owned Zhaojin Mining, has taken a 3.8% interest in Radisson Mining Resources…
Top 10 Canadian miners by market cap
The Northern Miner presents the top-10, Canada-headquartered mining companies by market capitalization as of late-June, 2020. 1. Barrick Gold Market cap: US$46.56 billion Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has…
Electrum fund boosts stake in Nickel Creek Platinum
The Electrum Strategic Opportunities Fund has increased its interest in Nickel Creek Platinum (TSX: NPC; US-OTC: NCPCF) to 33.88% following the closure of the second tranche of a private placement….
Talisker drills high-grade gold at Bralorne in BC
Drilling at Talisker Resources’ (CNSX: TSK; US-OTC: TSKFF) 42-sq.-km Bralorne gold project in British Columbia has returned high-grade gold from new veins as well as from existing structures. Of the…
Lumina Gold extends mine life at Cangrejos
An updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Lumina Gold‘s (TSXV: LUM; US-OTC: LMGDF) Cangrejos gold-copper project in southern Ecuador has added nine years to the mine life and improved economics…