Antofagasta posts record copper production
Antofagasta (LON: ANTO) set a new record last year with group copper production of 725,300 tonnes, and the company expects it will produce 750,000-790,000 tonnes of the red metal this…
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Endeavour beats 2018 production forecast
Endeavour Mining (TSX: EDV; US-OTC: EDVMF) produced 52% more gold in 2018 than it did in 2017, exceeding the upper end of its full-year guidance. The company produced 612,000 oz….
Goldsource drills near surface gold at Salbora in Guyana
Goldsource Mines (TSXV: GXS; US-OTC: GXSFF) has discovered more near surface gold with the first two drill holes of an ongoing exploration campaign at its Salbora gold target, 1.5 km…
Galway discovers gold zone at Clarence Stream in New Brunswick
Galway Metals (TSXV: GWM) has discovered 7 metres of visible gold starting 51 metres downhole in a new area of its Clarence Stream project in New Brunswick, its second gold…
Roxgold ramps up operations at Yaramoko
Roxgold (TSX: ROXG; US-OTC: ROGFF) expects its Yaramoko mine in Burkina Faso will produce between 145,000 and 155,000 ounces this year at cash costs of US$440-$470 per oz. and all-in…
New Jersey Mining drills high-grade gold at Paymaster
New Jersey Mining (CNSX: NJMC; US-OTC: NJMC) has intersected gold mineralization at its Paymaster Shoot in Idaho’s Coeur D’Alene district, grading as high as 70.3 grams gold over 0.35 metres. The…
Slower growth weighs on base metals but constructive for gold, CIBC says
The negative effects of trade disputes on global growth this year will push down demand for base metals and steel-making commodities, while the economic uncertainty will drive gold prices higher,…
Prospero begins phase 2 drilling at Pachuca
Prospero Silver (TSXV: PSL; US-OTC: PSRVF) has begun phase two drilling at its Pachuca SE project in Hidalgo State, Mexico, shortly after Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE: FSM) exercised…
Turquoise Hill production guidance levels off in 2019
Oyu Tolgoi is expected to produce 125,000 to 155,000 tonnes of copper and 180,000 to 220,000 ounces of gold in concentrates this year, Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ)…
Bayhorse samples high-grade silver in Oregon
Bayhorse Silver (TSXV: BHS; US-OTC: KXPLF) has tabled 23 new silver channel samples from its Bayhorse silver mine in Oregon. The company is trying to find the mine’s higher grade…
Brucejack, Silvertip among BC’s biggest recent successes
The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new…
Canadian geologist Kirk Woodman murdered in Burkina Faso
Kirk Woodman, vice-president of exploration for Vancouver-based private gold explorer Progress Minerals, was found dead on Jan. 16 in rural Burkina Faso, after having been abducted a day earlier by…