Chavez inauguration chills investors
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waved the socialist banner broadly at his inauguration ceremony on Jan. 10, but comments from his finance committee eased some market concerns.
South America
New tax scheme coming to Bolivia (January 22, 2007)
Speculation over President Evo Morales’ plans for Bolivia’s mining sector was rekindled recently by strong words from his mining minister, who suggested that the country’s mineral export tax was too l…
Mansfield drilling expands Lindero
Vancouver – Drilling by Mansfield Minerals (MDR-V, MFMNF-O) on its Lindero project in Salta Province, northwestern …
Eaglecrest defining gold shoots in Bolivia
Eaglecrest Explorations (EEL-V) is continuing to encounter high-grade gold as it drifts towards its target at its S…
Int’l Royalty to Buy Nsr on Pascua-Lama
Vancouver — International Royalty (IRC-T, ROY-X) has inked a deal to purchase a sliding-scale net smelter return (NSR) royalty on Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) monstrous Pascua-Lama gold deposit, whi…
Northern Peru Copper gets positive prefeasibility for Galeno
Vancouver – A positive prefeasibility study for Northern Peru Copper’s (NOC-T, NPUCF-O) Galeno project in Peru’s Ya…
Chavez sends new wave of chills down investors’ spines
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waved the socialist banner broadly at his inauguration ceremony on Jan. 10, but co…
New tax scheme coming to Bolivia (January 08, 2007)
Speculations over Bolivian president Evo Morales’ plans for the mining sector were rekindled by strong words from h…
Verena Pulls Gold at Volta Grande
Verena Minerals (VML-V) has intersected gold mineralization in a new drill hole at the Grota Seca East zone on its Volta Grande property in Para state, Brazil.
News Roundup — Latin America
Skeena cuts higher grades at El Corazon
Bear Creek adds value at Corani
With the Corani polymetallic discovery in Peru hovering just shy of 320 million oz. in an overall contained silver resource, Bear Creek Mining (BCM-V, BCEKF-O) is looking to add value by driving the p…
Bema execs asked for documents in Verde dispute
Vancouver — Bema Gold (BGO-T, BGO-N, BAU-L) CEO Clive Johnson and vice-president Dennis Stansbury have been asked to testify in a dispute between a U.S. insurance firm and the company that was contra…