Advantage Lithium completes study on Cauchari
Advantage Lithium (TSXV: AAL) released the results of a prefeasibility study on its 75%-owned Cauchari project in northern Argentina’s Jujuy province. The prefeasibility study, announced…
South America
Newmont Goldcorp begins commercial production at Quecher Main
The Quecher Main project at Newmont Goldcorp’s (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) Yanacocha gold mine in Peru has achieved commercial production ahead of schedule and under budget. The…
Chile in turmoil as tensions boil over
The worst unrest in Chile in a generation threatens to overturn assumptions about one of South America’s most stable countries and the world’s leading copper…
Wealth Minerals and Rosatom sign MOU
Russia’s state nuclear group Rosatom and Canada’s Wealth Minerals (TSXV: WML) are working towards a partnership at the junior’s Atacama lithium project in northern Chile. The…
Atlantic Nickel plans 2020 production at Santa Rita in Brazil
Atlantic Nickel has updated the resource estimate for its wholly owned Santa Rita nickel-copper-cobalt restart project in Bahia, Brazil. Based on a 30,785 meter infill…
SolGold discovers porphyry system in Ecuador
SolGold has discovered a new copper-gold-silver-molybdenum porphyry system at its wholly owned Cisne Loja project in southern Ecuador. The company says it found mineralized outcrops…
Horizonte releases PFS on Vermelho
Vermelho — one of the largest and highest-grade undeveloped laterite nickel-cobalt resources in the world — will generate US$7.3 billion in total cash flow over…
TSX Venture posts small gain, Oct. 14-18: Novo Resources, New Pacific Metals, BonTerra, Cobalt 27
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 0.30% to 542.43 during the trading week. Spot gold finished at US$1,489.60, up 80¢. Novo Resources jumped 33¢ to $2.80….
US markets mixed, Oct. 14-18: Agnico Eagle, AngloGold Ashanti, Newmont Goldcorp
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.17% to 26,770.20, while the S&P 500 Index rose 0.54% to 2,986.20. Gold stayed relatively flat at US$1,489.60 per…
Sprott Asset Management invests $2M in Kootenay Silver
Kootenay Silver (TSXV: KTN; US-OTC: KOOYF) has announced a $2-million investment from Sprott Asset Management through a non-brokered private placement of 7.7 million units at 26¢…
Lithium Americas feasibility boosts production capacity at Caucharí-Olaroz
Lithium Americas (TSX: LAC; NYSE: LAC) has released an updated feasibility study that boosted the production capacity of Caucharí-Olaroz lithium project in Argentina’s Jujuy province to 40,000…
Blockade resumes at Newmont Goldcorp’s Peñasquito mine
Newmont Goldcorp (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) has temporarily halted operations at its Peñasquito mine in Mexico, following the resumption of an illegal blockade. This is the latest blockade…