TSX Venture inches lower, Oct. 1-5
Shares of Aurania Resources rose 53¢ to $2.76. The company recently found the first significant instances of copper mineralization at its Lost Cities–Cutucu project in Ecuador. Two regional exploration teams…
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MAG Silver extends underground infrastructure at Juanicipio
BEAVER CREEK, COLORADO — Development is well underway at MAG Silver’s (TSX: MAG; NYSE-AM: MAG) 44%-owned underground Juanicipio silver mine in the Fresnillo district of Zacatecas, Mexico, where it aims…
Americas Silver and Pershing Gold to merge
Americas Silver (TSX: USA; NYSE-AM: USAS), a producer with mines in the U.S. and Mexico, is merging with Pershing Gold (TSX: PGLC; NASDAQ: PGLC) in an all-share deal. Pershing’s primary…
Precious Metals Summit 2018: Portfolio managers share top picks
At the 2018 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek, Colo., The Northern Miner caught up with three portfolio managers to discuss the gold and silver companies that made an impression…
New Gold sells Mesquite to Equinox
Renaud Adams hasn’t wasted any time settling into his new job at New Gold (TSX: NGD; NYSE-AM: NGD). A week after taking the helm as president and CEO of the…
Endeavour improves Terronera’s metrics
Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) has tabled an updated prefeasibility study (PFS) for its Terronera silver project, 40 km northeast of Puerto Vallarta, that estimates higher revenues and a…
Orla boosts gold recoveries in Panama
Orla Mining (TSXV: OLA; US-OTC: ORRLF) has increased gold recoveries at its Cerro Quema gold project in Panama with results from new metallurgical column tests — part of a larger…
Bluestone tables two new resources for Cerro Blanco
Bluestone Resources (TSXV: BSR; US-OTC: BBSRF) has tabled a new resource estimate for its Cerro Blanco underground gold-silver project in Guatemala, upgrading resources to the indicated category and adding 308,000…
Southern Silver extends mineralization at Cerro Las Minitas
Southern Silver (TSXV: SSV; US-OTC: SSVFF) is seeing some encouraging results from its 12,000 metre drill campaign at its Cerro Las Minitas silver-zinc project in Durango State, Mexico. An early…
Aztec chases silver-zinc deposits at Tombstone
Aztec Minerals (TSXV: AZT; US-OTC: AZZTF) has started surface exploration at its newly optioned Tombstone silver-zinc district, 104 km southeast of Tucson, Arizona. The company is chasing multiple mineralization types,…
Mexico Snapshot: Eight juniors tapping into Mexico’s mineral potential
Despite patches of trouble in different regions of the country from time to time, Mexico remains one of the most favoured mining and exploration jurisdictions for Canadian and U.S. juniors….
Newmont invests in Evrim Resources
Shares of Evrim Resources (TSXV: EVM) surged 18.5% to $1.28 on news that Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) is acquiring 4.85 million shares of the company at $1.50 per share for…