Over the last three years, SolGold (LSE: SOLG) has earned an 85% stake in the Cascabel copper-gold-silver deposit in northern Ecuador, and the Brisbane-based company says it is on track to complete its first resource estimate on the early stage…
In April BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage of BHP Billiton (LSE: BLT) spin-off South32, (LSE: S32; US-OTCBB: SOUHY)commenting that the shares of the newly created mining company “represent a more compelling investment than BHP…
VANCOUVER — Emerging producer Trevali Mining (TSX: TV; US-OTC: TREVF) is a preferred zinc play amongst analysts, and its performance over the first five months of 2015 have gone a long way in solidifying that reputation. The company…
Less than a year after Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) acquired an 80% stake in Freeport-McMoRan’s (NYSE: FCX) Candelaria copper mine in Chile in a deal worth $1.8 billion, a Chilean environmental regulator has filed charges against the…
Concerns of a shrinking economy drove Canada’s main stock index down 1.2% to close at 15,014.09. The S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Index decreased 2.7% to 727.52, and the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index retreated 1.7%…
Growing up in Zimbabwe after World War II, completing an engineering degree at the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, and working at Jones & Wagener, a specialist firm of consulting engineers and scientists based in South Africa,…
In the first four months of this year alone, kidnapping incidents have touched Torex Gold Resources (TSX: TGX; US-OTC: TORXF) and Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) in Mexico’s Guerrero state, and Pan African Minerals’ Tambao manganese…
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM; US-OTC: FQVLF) plans to raise US$1.4 billion through a public offering — increasing the company’s outstanding shares to 689 million.
Just a week after Vale (NYSE: VALE) unveiled a memorandum of understanding with one of China’s largest commercial banks for financing arrangements worth up to US$4 billion, Zijin Mining Group of southern Fujian province has agreed to…
The Peruvian government recently declared a state of emergency in southern Peru, after ongoing protests against Southern Copper’s (NYSE: SCCO) Tia Maria copper project caused a fourth fatality.
Atico Mining’s (TSXV: ATY; US-OTC: ATCMF) El Roble underground mine is the only copper-gold volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in production today in Colombia and the Vancouver-based junior producer is becoming more confident by…
Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) has stayed on course with its ambitious growth plans over the last five years, bringing online three new mines, with the latest being the large Constancia copper-molybdenum-gold-silver mine in Peru.
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