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Probe Mines CEO David Palmer (far right) leads a tour of the Borden gold project in northern Ontario. Source: Probe Mines

Probing Chapleau for more than just timber

CHAPLEAU, ONT. — Play the game of word association with anyone who has heard of the small town of Chapleau, located west of Timmins in northern Ontario, and lumber, wildlife and railcars are bound to come up.


A drill rig at Eurasian Minerals' Copper Basin copper project in Arizona. Photo by Gwen Preston.

Eurasian rethinks Arizona’s copper riches

PHOENIX, ARIZONA — “Here we are, in the middle of one of the most productive copper districts in the world — Arizona — and we were able to just stake this ground,” says David Cole, president and CEO of Eurasian…


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…


Passport Potash CEO Joshua Bleak (centre) with colleagues at Holbrook. Photo by John Cumming.

Passport sees potash aplenty in Arizona

Is it possible to build a potash mine right beside Arizona’s treasured Petrified Forest National Park? Vancouver-based Passport Potash (PPI-V) believes so, and has in hand a new preliminary economic assessment that’s giving it the…



The past-producing pit at Paramount Gold and Silver's Sleeper gold-silver project in Nevada. Photo by Matthew Keevil

Site visit: Paramount stages golden revival at Sleeper

WINNEMUCCA, NEV. — For Nevada-based explorer Paramount Gold and Silver (PZG-T, PZG-X), there’s a lot to be said for making something old new again. In mid-2010 the company picked up the past-producing Sleeper gold-silver mine, which…


McEwen Mining senior vice-president Ian Ball (left) and CEO Rob McEwen at the El Gallo silver-gold project in Mexico's Sinaloa state. Photo by Trish Saywell

McEwen finds a sweet spot in Sinaloa

MOCORITO, SINALOA, MEXICO — The state of Sinaloa is a narrow strip of land hugging 650 km of coastline in northwestern Mexico that makes up 3% of the country’s land mass, 2% of its population and a hefty 30% of its food production.



Locals survey the past-producing Panguna copper-gold open pit mine in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Photo by Ian Bickis

The high-stakes world of Papua New Guinea mining

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — Rising out of the sea at the collision of the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates, Papua New Guinea is the stuff of legend for both its geological potential and punishing working environment.


All smiles at Panoro Minerals' Cotabambas copper project in Peru, from left: Yves Barsimantov, vice-president of operations; a local employee; David Huber, CFO; Luquman Shaheen, CEO; and Adriana Luque, community relations manager. Photo by Matthew Keevil

Panoro on track at Cotabambas

CUSCO, PERU — With a large copper-gold-silver resource in its pocket at the Cotabambas project in the Peruvian Andes, Vancouver-based explorer Panoro Minerals (PML-V) is viewing 2013 as a turning point that could see the company…


At the mid-January launch ceremony at the Bissa gold mine in Burkina Faso, from front left: Matthew Wilcox, Bissa Gold general director; Nikolai Zelensky, Nordgold CEO; and Philip Baum, Nordgold chairman. Source: Nordgold

Nordgold opens Bissa mine in Burkina Faso

BISSA, BURKINA FASO — Just 15 months after starting construction, Nordgold (NORD-L) has entered production at its Bissa open-pit gold mine in Burkina Faso, located in the rural commune of Sabce, 100 km north of the capital Ouagadougou.



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