Dirty gold overtakes cocaine as crime’s cash machine
Criminal groups continue to shift from cocaine to illegal mining as banks and governments scramble to close financial loopholes.
South America
Editorial: Industrial power returns
For much of the past three decades, mining executives struggled to convince governments that minerals were strategic assets. They no longer have to make that case because the world has made it…
Gangs hijack Ecuador’s gold mining supply chain
Ecuador has elevated illegal mining to a national security threat after concluding that criminal gangs have infiltrated the country’s gold supply chain, from extraction to export, turning the sector into…
Opinion: Seeing the district for the deposit
But sometimes they form clusters or groups of deposits. It’s these types of places where the geology is so fertile that one discovery is not the end of the story but the beginning…
NGEx drills 20.3% copper at Lunahuasi in Argentina
NGEx Minerals (TSX: NGEX; US-OTC: NGXXF) released another batch of high-grade copper, gold and silver intercepts from its Lunahuasi project in Argentina that extend mineralization in multiple directions – including one…
Kinross’ Lobo-Marte cost jumps 67% as NPV triples
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) has raised the projected cost of its Lobo-Marte gold project in Chile by nearly two-thirds to $1.8 billion (C$2.5 billion), though the post-tax net…
Sponsored: Empress turns cash flow into growth
Empress Royalty Executive Chair David Rhodes and President & CEO Alexandra Woodyer Sherron in conversation with The Northern Miner’s Western Editor, Henry Lazenby, this month during the Rule Symposium on Resource…
Brazil court dismisses Indigenous case vs Belo Sun
Canadian miner Belo Sun Mining (TSX: BSX) has secured a final court ruling that permanently dismisses a class action challenging the Indigenous licensing process for its proposed $300-million (C$423-million) Volta…
Rule Symposium Video: Peru explorers face a permit premium, says Mazumdar
Investors should favour Peru explorers that already hold drill permits because approvals can stall strong copper and gold prospects for years, Exploration Insights newsletter editor and analyst Joe Mazumdar said…
Element 29 drills record 1.5-km Elida interval
Element 29 Resources (TSXV: ECU; US-OTC: EMTRF) drilled the longest mineralized interval yet at its Elida copper project in Peru, extending the porphyry system far below the current resource. Hole…
Fitzroy builds case for near-term Chile copper mine
Fitzroy Minerals (TSXV: FTZ; US-OTC: FTZFF) has extended broad, shallow copper mineralization along the Tenorita trend at its Buen Retiro project in Chile as it advances towards an initial resource…
Southern Copper maps route to over 1M tonnes by 2029
Southern Copper (NYSE: SCCO) expects copper production to surpass one million tonnes by 2029 as its flagship Tia Maria project nears the halfway mark, reinforcing the miner’s confidence in a…