Overcoming the bandidos
SITE VISIT SANTA ANA, MEXICO — They came from behind the mountains, from a swath of uninhabited high-plain desert marked only by rough outcrop-pings and dark patches of palo verde….
Mexico and Central America
Geologix cuts strong grades at San Agustin
VANCOUVER — The polymetallic San Agustin deposit in Durango, Mexico, continues to demonstrate its growth potential for Geologix Explorations (GIX-V, GXEXF-O) in advance of a resource estimate due out…
New Velardena vein for ECU (March 31, 2008)
VANCOUVER — A new vein discovery at the Velardena property in Durango state, Mexico, gave ECU Silver Mining (ECU-T, ECUXF-O) a market boost recently.
Great Panther grows Mapimi
VANCOUVER — Despite being busy running four mines, Great Panther Resources (GPR-T, GPRLF-O) still found time to boost the resources at its Mapimi silver-lead-zinc property in northeastern Durango sta…
Arian confirms gold, copper resource at Tepal (March 31, 2008)
VANCOUVER — A recent resource estimate for Arian Silver’s (AGQ-V, AGQ-L) Tepal porphyry project in Mexico confirms historic estimates and adds more than 1 million contained ounces gold plus considera…
Teck Cominco, Inmet nudge Petaquilla development forward
Vancouver – Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) and Inmet Mining (IMN-T, IEMMF-O) have decided to move forward with plann…
Zaruma connects the copper deposits
If copper mineralization at Zaruma Resources’ (ZMR-T) Antonio project in Sonora, Mexico, keeps expanding outwards a…
Petaquilla further defines Molejon
As Petaquilla Minerals (PTQ-T) gets set to bring its Molejon gold project in Panama into production this year, the …
Fragile finances imperil Constellation Copper (March 24, 2008)
Troubled Constellation Copper (CCU-T, CCUDF-O) may have to file for protection from creditors in Canada and the United States if its cash liquidity problems aren’t eased.
Great Panther grows Mapimi resource
Vancouver – Despite being busy running four mines, Great Panther Resources (GPR-V) still found time to boost the re…
New Velardena vein for ECU (March 17, 2008)
Vancouver – A new vein discovery at the Velardena property in Durango State, Mexico, gave ECU Silver (ECU-T) a mark…
First Majestic gains momentum in Mexico
VANCOUVER — Times are good for First Majestic Silver (FR-T, FRMSF-O). The company’s share price has climbed more than 55% in the last six months, it was recently upgraded to the Toronto Stock Exchang…