Site visit: Saturn adopts locally rare heap‑leach
Saturn Metals (ASX: STN) is planning to build a large-scale heap leach operation at its Apollo Hill project in Western Australia, making it a bit of an outlier in the…
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Site visit: Blue Lagoon reopens Dome Mountain
Blue Lagoon Resources (CSE: BLLG; US-OTC: BLAGF) reopened the Dome Mountain mine in British Columbia this month, more than 30 years after the last major exploration activity at the gold-silver property. Located…
Site visit: New Found Gold works to bring the mine to the community
GANDER, N.L. — There are just a handful of producing mines that sit near the Trans-Canada Highway across the country, and New Found Gold’s (TSXV: NFG, NYSE: NFGC) Queensway could be…
Site visit: FireFly Metals seeks high-grade copper crown
BAIE VERTE, N.L. – Hundreds of metres underground inside a tunnel in northwest Newfoundland, and illuminated only by head lamps, is the precise area where FireFly Metals’ (ASX, TSX: FFM)…
Site visit: Fortuna Mining drives value at Lindero pit
In a lunar-like landscape high in the Argentinian Andes, workers in white hazmat suits pace the cyanide-damp heap-leach pad. They have begun stacking ore on a second stage of Fortuna…
Site visit: One of the strangest chapters in copper mining is drawing to a close
With so much happening in copper – from all-time highs mixed with price collapses – it’s easy to lose sight of the giant hole that exists in the industry where…
Site visit: Legacy probes past for next big find
Australian junior Legacy Minerals Holdings (ASX: LGM) is exploring a 170-year-old Drake mining district property that might see production and a multimillion-ounce discovery within a few years. The Drake project…
Site visit: NMR seeks Forrest-inspired phoenix at Blackjack in Australia
Native Mineral Resources (ASX: NMR) only recently acquired its primary asset in Queensland, but it has set an aggressive schedule to restart production. The Sydney-based explorer bought the Far Fanning…
Site visit: Liberty Gold fast tracks past-producing Black Pine in Idaho
Salt Lake City, Utah – Liberty Gold’s (TSX: LGD) vice-president of exploration, Peter Shabestari, skillfully navigates steep turns around sheer rock faces at the company’s Black Pine Mountain gold project…
Site visit: Wildcat Resources fast-tracks ‘eye-watering’ Tabba Tabba lithium project to prefeasibility stage
Wildcat Resources (ASX: WC8) is already mapping a path to production at the Tabba Tabba lithium discovery in Western Australia’s Pilbara region it made only last year — even without…
Site visit: Equinox Gold’s newest mine to launch it into the 1M oz per year club
GERALDTON, ONT. — Through the slight haze of dust kicked up by a passing haul truck loaded with ore at Equinox Gold’s (TSX: EQX; NYSE: EQX) Greenstone mine, visitors can…
Site visit: Northern Star to bolster ‘Super Pit’ gold output to 900,000 oz per year
Northern Star Resources (ASX: NST) is transforming an iconic but previously unloved Kalgoorlie asset into Australia’s largest gold operation. Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) — also known as the Super…