South America

Facilities at MBAC Fertilizer's Itafos Arraias phosphate project in Brazil. Source: MBAC Fertilizer

MBAC Fertilizer’s production milestone

MBAC Fertilizer (TSX: MBC; US-OTC: MBCFF) has started producing single super phosphate (SSP) powder at its Itafos Arraias project in central-northern Brazil — an area the government is calling the country’s new agricultural frontier.


Eldorado's Kisladag gold mine in western Turkey (2012). Source: Eldorado Gold

Eldorado hits the brakes on expansion, shares rises 23%

VANCOUVER — Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO; US-OTC: ELDXF) has joined a growing list of miners opting to cut back on exploration and development expenditures in the face of struggling commodities markets. The company announced on…



Firestone Ventures' Torlon Hill zinc-lead-silver project in west-central Guatemala. Credit: Firestone Ventures .

Guatemala to ban new mining, exploration licences

Guatemala’s president Otto Perez Molina plans to place a two-year moratorium on issuing new mining and exploration licences, giving the nation time to reform its mining law, says Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO).




Drill core from Atico's  El Roble copper-gold project in Colombia. Source: Atico Resources

Atico completes El Roble resource

When it comes to pedigree in South America’s mining industry, it doesn’t get much better than the storied Ganoza family of Peru, which has owned and operated underground gold, silver and base metal mines in both their homeland and…




Pacific Potash keeps climbing

VANCOUVER — Brazil is the fastest growing potash market in the world, and Vancouver-based Pacific Potash (PP-V) is hoping it can help the country sate some of its potash hunger domestically.


An aerial shot of Touchstone's camp at the Segovia gold project in north-western Colombia.

Touchstone looks to score in Colombia

MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA — Junior  explorer Touchstone Gold (TCH-T, TGL-L) believes its Segovia high-grade gold project in northwestern Colombia is one of the more exciting mining stories coming out of the country, which over the…


Fortune favours a bold Fortuna Silver

Earlier this year Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI-T, FSM-N) bought a 55% stake in the Taviche Oeste concession surrounding its San Jose silver mine in Oaxaca, Mexico, from Pan American Silver (PAA-T, PAAS-Q) for US$4 million, with an option to pick…


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